How do I use curl with perl and Twitter

northwestdev has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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Re: How do I use curl with perl and Twitter by Corion (Patriarch) on Jul 20, 2009 at 19:38 UTC
Why don't you use Net::Twitter, which is a tested and working Perl interface to the Twitter API? The `->show_user()` method seems to be applicable.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: How do I use curl with perl and Twitter by northwestdev (Acolyte) on Jul 21, 2009 at 06:03 UTC
So, then if I use something like this, it should work? `my $nt = Net::Twitter->new( traits => [qw/API::REST/], username => $username, password => $pwd, apihost => "/users/show/".$TwitterID.".xml" ); my $result = $nt->show_user;` [download] The API url defaults to http://twitter.com, and I assume that the apihost, would be the remainder of the REST call, and by calling show_user, instead of show_user(id) -- while using an apihost that terminates with .xml, I am guaranteed a response that's an xml string. The documentation was not clear on what format I should expect if I use show_user(id), which would assume the default apihost.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: How do I use curl with perl and Twitter by Corion (Patriarch) on Jul 21, 2009 at 06:31 UTC
I'm not sure that what you wrote above would work, because the `apihost` parameter is, unsurprisingly, documented in the Net::Twitter as: A string containing the Twitter API host. It defaults to "`twitter.com:80`". This option is available when the API::REST trait is included. I'm not sure where you get the idea that you have to construct any URLs yourself - this is what the module should shield you from. But I'm sure that, instead of theoretical musings, it would be far more productive if you actually tried things out and came back only if you had further questions or error messages to report.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: How do I use curl with perl and Twitter by northwestdev (Acolyte) on Jul 21, 2009 at 07:24 UTC
Re^5: How do I use curl with perl and Twitter by Corion (Patriarch) on Jul 21, 2009 at 07:32 UTC
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Re^3: How do I use curl with perl and Twitter by davorg (Chancellor) on Jul 21, 2009 at 15:15 UTC
You're making this far harder than it needs to be. `#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; use Net::Twitter; my $nt = Net::Twitter->new; print Dumper $nt->show_user('davorg');` [download] You don't even need to authenticate unless you're trying to access a user who has protected their updates. -- See the Copyright notice on my home node. Perl training courses	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: How do I use curl with perl and Twitter by northwestdev (Acolyte) on Jul 21, 2009 at 17:40 UTC
Re^4: How do I use curl with perl and Twitter by northwestdev (Acolyte) on Jul 21, 2009 at 19:50 UTC
Re^5: How do I use curl with perl and Twitter by davorg (Chancellor) on Jul 21, 2009 at 22:13 UTC
Re^2: How do I use curl with perl and Twitter by vek (Prior) on Jul 23, 2009 at 21:40 UTC
Ordinarily I'd agree with you 100%. But playing devil's advocate for a second means I should point out that `Net::Twitter` requires `Moose` which requires half the CPAN. So one possible reason why anyone would avoid `Net::Twitter` is the somewhat lengthy and involved install process. But in that case there's Net::Twitter::Lite -- vek --	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: How do I use curl with perl and Twitter by stvn (Monsignor) on Jul 25, 2009 at 05:10 UTC
Net::Twitter requires Moose which requires half the CPAN Actually it has only 4 direct (non-core) dependencies, this expands to only 21 dependencies in total (6 of which are core). See here for the actual list of dependencies, and here for a detailed listing and justification for each one. -stvn	[reply]
Re: How do I use curl with perl and Twitter by davorg (Chancellor) on Jul 20, 2009 at 20:54 UTC
Corion is right that you should be using Net::Twitter, but I think your code is a little confused anyway. You're using LWP::UserAgent, but you seem to be trying to treat it like WWW::Curl::Easy. These are two different modules. -- See the Copyright notice on my home node. Perl training courses	[reply]
Re: How do I use curl with perl and Twitter by psini (Deacon) on Jul 20, 2009 at 19:39 UTC
Please format your code if you hope someone will read it. Rule One: "Do not act incautiously when confronting a little bald wrinkly smiling man."	[reply]


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