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Thank you! I already have an app idea :)

> custom Twitter client information

Perhaps it could auto-detect this from [[NSBundle mainBundle] objectForInfoDictionaryKey:(NSString *)kCFBundleNameKey]?

Congrats Matt! It’s going to be very useful for a lot of us!

nice!! good job :)

Possibly of interest if you go the OAuth route: http://code.google.com/p/oauthconsumer/wiki/UsingOAuthConsumer

Hi Matt,
great API!! I have implement it in my Teatimer.
It works like magic, awesome …

Thank you!

Hi Matt,

You might enjoy scripting MGTwitterEngine with Nu:
http://blog.neontology.com/posts/2008/03/04/twitter-and-nu

Hey this is awesome!

I’m having trouble getting the User timeline, using:
[twitterEngine getUserTimelineFor:nil since:nil count:0];
creates the url:
https://lachie:XXXX@twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.xml

This works when I plug it into curl, but using Twitter Engine I get a 401 Unauthorized

any ideas? I’m about to get wireshark onto it…
thanks again for the code
Lachie

Examining the http dialogue in wireshark shows that the credentials are being dropped from the url
http://lachie:XXXX@twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.xml
User-Agent is CFNetwork/221.5
I’ll try to patch it if I can :)

I’m on 10.5.2 with the xcode etc from the first iphone beta (though not compiling for the iphone).

Seems that line: [twitterEngine getUserTimelineFor:nil since:nil count:0]; is still causing problems with Twitter.

I had just been trying the sample app and wondering why it was failing then saw Lachie’s comment and your reply.

Why don’t you create a framework? I think that would by a good addition to the sourcecode.

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Hey where does that yajl stuff come from? It’s not in your svn source tree and no note about it on the readme….

#include

Woah, just checked out the yajl branch by accident. Looks fantastic, any word on when that’ll be done?

How can i easily just set a status from a text box and a button? It’s simply all I need to start off.

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Dominic, look at the methods in MGTwitterEngine.h to see the specific call you need to make. Once you have instantiated an MGTwitterEngine object and logged in with credentials, it’s a 1-liner to post a new status update to Twitter.

Thanks for sharing this! Really appreciate it

Thanks for your work on this! It’s an awesome library/wrapper around the REST calls.

Thanks very much for providing this!

I don’t see a method for retrieving the timeline for a password-protected Twitter account. Am I missing something, or is that not currently supported?

Thanks again.

I had some trouble checking out the svn repository. Kept getting an error on checkout, so I just downloaded all the files using wget. Anyone else able to checkout? I was using this command:
svn co http://svn.cocoasourcecode.com/MGTwitterEngine-1.0.8/ ./

Thanks for the hard work everyone has put in on this. It worked very well and I was able to easily follow the readme. Got it working on the first try!

I am having trouble compiling the program on 2.2.1 SDK. I created a new app for iPhone, added the MGTwitterEngine files etc. I get the following error:

.objc_class_name_MGTwitterEngine”, referenced from:
literal-pointer@_OBJC@_cls_refs@MGTwitterEngine in TestAppDelegate.0
symbol(s) not found
collect2: Id returned 1 exit status

I did link in /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS2.0.sdk/usr/lib/libxml2.dylib and added “$SDKROOT/usr/include/libxml2″ in Header Search Paths.

Resolved. Apparently, I had missed some files when I added them to my project. After redownloading the source and recreating the project, it worked. Thank you.

That svn command worked fine for me.

Awesome code; works great on the simulator. Thanks so much.

I’m getting a warning when I build for the device, regarding this function:

[NSDate dateWithNaturalLanguageString:...];

in MGTwitterXMLParser.m.

Is anyone else seeing this? It seems this method isn’t a part of the SDK.. Works on the simulator for some reason.

sam

Dear Matt, maybe I’m missing something, but I’m trying to work with your framework but after the login, I can’t see the twitters. Where are they? How can I “print it” on display? Is there any additional code you can provide me to see how to use it?
Thanks and regards,

Hi Matt

Thanks very much for the library – got it running very quickly.

On the clientname/token stuff – if I don’t set the token, messages come as sent by MGTwitterEngine, but if I set the token to either of the consumer key or secret values I have from Twitter for my app, it just says from ‘web’.

On my twitter app page, it refers to oauth – I am guessing oauth is now required for this to work…

I am using the 1.0.8 version of MGTwitterEngine.

Thanks,
Chris

What is the eta for oauth support?

I keep getting YAJL build errors, any idea where I can get those files and where I put them?

an error occurs while trying to compile the app. it says can’t find yaji/yaji_parse.h

FYI I have made some fairly small changes to MGTE 1.0.8 to use Jon’s OAuth library. Not done exhaustive testing but can get timeline and do status update with the correct source being shown. I can share it on github or wherever you suggest.

Chris

I have put my changes up on github, if anyone is interested.

The MGTwitter changes in here – https://github.com/kimptoc/MGTwitterEngine-1.0.8-OAuth/tree

A simple wrapper class to do the OAuth setup and pass it to MGTwitterEnginer – https://github.com/kimptoc/MGTwitterEngine-1.0.8-OAuth-MyTwitter/tree

README file is here – http://github.com/kimptoc/MGTwitterEngine-1.0.8-OAuth-MyTwitter/blob/e0f337ec8aa20fe0883eb4c9ed7cc39d7efab859/README

Hi,

Are Chris Kimpton’s OAuth changes needed to get Twitter to recognize and display the name of my client?

I’ve registered my app with Twitter and set the clientName and token, but the tweets from my client still say “from web”.

The answer to my question above is “yes”.

I’m having some trouble implementing Chris’ changes. How’s the OAuth support coming along?

Hey Matt great work! And Chris thanks for your work!

Beeing quite inexperienced in all those code stuff i think i’m not able to integrate oauth in my project but want to see “from myappblabla”. Hmmm i know everything is explained well but i dont understand it…

matt are you going to integrate it in your code in the next time? or do i have to integrate chris hacks? ^^

Hi,

I recently found MGTwitter Engine and have been playing around with and have a question. When exactly are the results returned to the delegate methods you implement in your own code?

In my delegate implementation for – (void)statusesReceived:(NSArray *)statuses forRequest:(NSString *)identifier
I put statuses into an array of my own to use later but it never gets populated.

Thanks,
Andy

Hi,

I have to create an iphone app (say “testapp”) having feature to tweet and it should show “sdddf” — sent from testapp on the twitter page.

Can anyone plz tell if the user need to approve the application first? is it possible that the user will only give his/her twitter username/password and the testapplication will tweet without registration?

Has anyone implemented oauth and mgtwitter? Is there any opensource project?

While compiling I am having the following error:

/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS2.0.sdk/usr/include/fenv.h:41:6: error: #error This fenv header and set of APIs is intended for the ARM (with VFP) architecture only.

anyidea?

Thanks,
Aman

Folks – the only way to get your tweets to show up as from your app is to use OAuth.

I did manage to get Chris’ code to work, but it took a bit of effort.

Pssst: hey Matt, how ’bout putting this code on GitHub or google code & letting others contribute? :-)

Can you please post the YAJL framework.
Thanks

Hi,

Matt, thank you for sharing this wonderful library.

By the way, does anyone know if MGTwitterEngine is thread-safe?

Thanks in advance.

Thanks Matt and Chris for your contributions. I’m having a heck of a time trying to get OAuth working with Chris’s code in an iPhone proj. All sorts of errors no matter what I do. Not sure what I’m doing wrong. Can anyone provide tips on this?

I was finally able to implement Chris’ code for the iPhone. Only problem is, the user has to go to the authorization website every time they use the app. I don’t want this. Does anyone know how to avoid this?

@Michael – Did you get the OAuth to work as a small test app? can you post your work somewhere. I’m currently trying to get this to work so I can change my code on a different project but currently not having luck. Currently stuck at the auth section (also says that sendUpdate is not implemented in the MyTwitter file.
Thanks

How do I turn off Yajl? or where is it?

It says it’s in the MGTwitterEngine but I can’t se it in the directory.
Can’t build a simple test, Help.

thats great that you are talking about the twitter api,a good example of searching with the twitter api is on twiogle.com because you can search on twitter and google at the same time.

I’m having the same problem as Andy Black…. my responses come back perfectly … but when I try to alloc a new array with the response data … it always is empty .. infact it seems the Array is being alloc’ed before the response result array is even filled.

Sorry about previous post. I was not using MGTwitterEngine-1.0.8 but MGTwitterEngine.
Anybody successfully compiled MGTwitterEngine-1.0.8 on iphone sdk 2.2.1?
I am getting some errors that I don’t know what to do with. I managed to compile on
OSX without any warnings or problems but on the Iphone I am getting :

Line Location Tool:0: collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
Line Location Tool:0: symbol(s) not found
Line Location Tool:0: -[MGTwitterLibXMLParser initWithXML:delegate:connectionIdentifier:requestType:responseType:URL:] in MGTwitterLibXMLParser.o
Line Location Tool:0: “_xmlReaderForMemory”, referenced from:
Line Location Tool:0: -[MGTwitterLibXMLParser _nodeValue] in MGTwitterLibXMLParser.o

… But it’s too long to post.

Any ideas?

By the way, Good Job Matt!!! and thanks for letting us use your code.

Best.

Wonderful code Matt!

One question: is there any way to set up the app to upload pictures to twitpic in addition to the text or is that a totally separate matter?

I hope I’m reading things incorrectly, but it looks like the http://www.twitpocalypse.com/ is going to affect MGTwitterEngine…It looks like all the updateID’s are ints (a max of 2,147,483,647 on the iPhone)… it’s probably a good idea to change them unsigned long longs or at the very least uints…

Great work. Think it’s more useful to update the code with iPhone compiled version. Because it’s not easy get 1.0.8 with 2.2.1 or 3.0

Thanks for the superb API (a donation is coming shortly).

I have it working just fine on the iPhone, I just followed the instructions (I did get the latest from SVN and just removed all the yajl files.

Just like everyone else, I would love to have it display my app name on the Tweets, but I’ll be shipping soon, so it will just say ‘from the web’… Oh well. Beggars can’t be choosy :)

Thanks

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Thanks for putting this together. Will help a lot of people. Good work!

Getting a “YAJL error 3″ on Twitterfic for iPhone at the moment, any ideas what’s going on? Thanks

Hey, I’ve realised that the Twitpocolypse has affected MGTwitterEngine, is there a way of getting it to work now it’s happened?

Did not really understand how to have “from MyCoolApp” instead of MGTwitterEngine. I registered my app and have Consumer key, Consumer secret and Request token URL, Access token URL, Authorize URL (the URL seem really general URL. Not specific to my app). Any idea or links that could help me?Thanks folks!

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Hi,
Thanks Matt for the wonderful work. I want to change the profile image of the user using your library. I am trying to do it since last three days. But not getting success.My application crashes while creating the request in which it tries to convert nsdata to string and pass it the request. Any help would be surely appreciated.
Thanks

Hi

just a heads up – seems like Twitter api is now using 1.0a which needs an additional pin/verifier sent at the last oauth step :( .

Maybe we should set up a google group for this discussion?

Regards , Chris

Hi,

Further to my comment yesterday, the changes I had to make was a small patch to OAuth – see http://code.google.com/p/oauthconsumer/wiki/UsingOAuthConsumer

And then in the interaction after the user closes the browser, you need to ask them for a pin (yuck :( ) and then pass this to Twitter when asking for the access token, as the oauth_verifier.

I will update my hacked code with my changes – hope it helps.

I must look at the HEAD code – it must have OAuth support in it… or what is Adium doing…

Regards,
Chris

PS How about MGTwitterEngine-User as a google user group?

Hi,

I borrowed heavily from Chris Kimpton’s awesome work and built a complete project out of it. Included all of the frameworks etc.

This means that you can click the download button. Open the project. Push run.

I did change one thing. I subclass the MGTwitterEngine instead of modifying it. That way we don’t have to fork MGTwitterEngine and can stay current with Matt’s work and others’ contributions.

My solution is to include an internal web-view into the project to display the “Accept” page. This basically replaces the “username/password” view that would normally be in a project.

I’ve opened all the source, and put it on github. Please feel free to use it, modify it, or comment on it. Thanks again to Chris and Matt for making this possible.

http://github.com/yourhead/OAuth_ObjC_Test_App/tree/master

Thanks,
Isaiah
YourHead Software

Oh, and I thought I should mention that I put together a pre-compiled version too. Just so that you can see what it does without having to register OAuth credentials with Twitter. Here’s the link:
http://thurly.net//0w7

I would also love to know how to change “from MGTwitterEngine” to “from MyCoolApp” when a tweet is posted.
When you register an app with Twitter, it gives you a Consumer Key, Consumer Secret and 3 very general request, access, and authorize URLs. Where do you enter this information in MGTwitterEngine to customize the app signature?

Hi folks!
I am still trying to have a client token for my app. I have a consumer key and consumer secret. It seems that once you have a client token for your app, twitter does not change it. I used Chris’ code but I still do not have my client token. Any link where it is explained (I am new to iPhone programming and oauth is complex for me to understand)?
Thanks a lot!

@perplexed -
The reason that the “from MGTwitterEngine” is shown is that your OAuth is not quite working, or that you’re still using basic auth.
To get your client info to show you MUST use OAuth. Check the Twitter API pages for more details — but they’re pretty much dead-set on it.

@MattLook
The consumer key and consumer secret that you were given by Twitter when you registered your app need to be placed into the code that you’re using from Chris. In Chris’ OAuth wrapper class (posted about above) you should look for the code that looks like this:
#define kOAuthConsumerKey @”"
#define kOAuthConsumerSecret @”"
That’s where your keys go.
Hope this helps, you can ask me more via twitter: @isaiah

Isaiah