Re^3: How do I use curl with perl and Twitter

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');
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You don't even need to authenticate unless you're trying to access a user who has protected their updates.

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Re^4: How do I use curl with perl and Twitter by northwestdev (Acolyte) on Jul 21, 2009 at 17:40 UTC
The reason why I need to authenticate, is that Twitter rate limits its non-authenticated API calls to a small number of calls every hour. Authenticated (and pre-authorized) accounts, get a much bigger allowance. I did get Net::Twitter installed, and I'm about to test it.	[reply]
Re^4: How do I use curl with perl and Twitter by northwestdev (Acolyte) on Jul 21, 2009 at 19:50 UTC
FYI: I am a Perl newbie. It is somewhat working, but I cannot figure out why this piece of code is not producing any output: `my $nt = Net::Twitter->new( traits => [qw/API::REST/], username => $usename, password => $pwd ); my $results = $nt->show_user($twitterID); foreach my $user (@{ $results }) { my $id = $user->{id}; my $name = $user->{name}; print STDOUT $id." ".$name."<br>"; }` [download] No error messages either. I know it's about the way I am accessing the $user hash. I did some perl reading, and even one of the examples in Net::Twitter uses the same code.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: How do I use curl with perl and Twitter by davorg (Chancellor) on Jul 21, 2009 at 22:13 UTC
This is one of those (many) places where `use warnings` will tell you exactly what you are doing wrong. Not an ARRAY reference at ./twit line 13. The value you're getting back in `$result` is a hash reference. You can't treat it as an array reference. Coding without `use warnings` is stupid. Don't do it. -- See the Copyright notice on my home node. Perl training courses	[reply]


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