It took me quite a while to figure out how to get started with my own twitter app, so I thought it might be usefull writing down the steps to get started.
I use the open source FlashDevelop IDE, but in Flex Builder it should work identical.
First, create your project.
The next thing you need to do is loading the offical AS3 Twitter lib swc from google code.
This SWC contains a few classes only, you can browse them on the Source tab of the google code page.
Just put it into the lib folder of your project and, in FlashDevelop, rightclick it to select Add To Library.
Now, let’s go over to the code
package {
import flash.display.Sprite;
import twitter.api.Twitter;
import twitter.api.events.TwitterEvent;
import twitter.api.data.TwitterStatus;
import twitter.api.data.TwitterUser;
public class Main extends Sprite {
private var api:Twitter;
public function Main() {
api = new Twitter();
api.setAuthenticationCredentials("xathis", "password");
api.loadFriendsTimeline("xathis");
api.addEventListener(TwitterEvent.ON_FRIENDS_TIMELINE_RESULT, resultHandler);
}
private function resultHandler(event:TwitterEvent):void {
for (var i:int = 0; i < event.data.length; i++) {
var status:TwitterStatus = event.data[i] as TwitterStatus;
var user:TwitterUser = status.user;
trace(user.screenName + ": " + status.text);
}
}
}
}
That’s it. There’s only this one Main class. All it does is loading your friend’s timelines and display them in the output panel.
Of course you have to change your username and password.
And remember, this is only an example, you should never leave your password hardcoded in a swf.
For more information on the twitter API take a look at the documentation at the API-Wiki
Thank you for this - It got me kick-started on the right track!
Nice one, but I do try your example and got a connection error (unable to load http:/twitter…) in Flash CS4, while in browser everything was fine. Is there any sandbox issues that FlashDevelop bypass by default?
thanx
@fabio
FlashDevelop views the swf as if it was a browser.
You could make an exe out of your swf or create an air project. Usually you never need to open a swf locally in standalone player.
Thank you for the tip! but it seems to work only under air deployment. Btw the reason to run a swf locally is the same in your example, to debug through the console…
Thanks xathis, this is a great help to get things started! It’s a shame there isn’t more information on the twitter API. Have you had trouble setting a user status before?
I’m using Flex Builder 3 with the API and am having problems setting my status.
I’ve got this code in my createComplete handler:
t = new Twitter();
t.addEventListener( TwitterEvent.ON_SET_STATUS, setStatusHandler );
t.setAuthenticationCredentials( USER, PASSWORD );
And in a click handler for a button I’m trying to do
t.setStatus( “Testing twitter API” );
But it’s not working at all.
“private var t:Twitter;” Is declared in my script tag and the USER and PASSWORD variables are constants. The loadFriendsTimeline function works ok.
Have you come across this before? Do you have any working examples (with code) of twitting from within flash?
Thanks in advance,
Mark
@Mark
Thanks for your positive feedback, Mark.
I’m sorry, but I can’t say what’s wrong with your code.
For me this works alright. I’ve posted an example on http://xathis.com/2009-02-08/setstatus-from-as3-twitter-api-example.
My testing message went to twitter without complications: http://twitter.com/xathis/status/1189897626.
I got error :
Error #2032: Stream Error. URL: http://twitter.com/statuses/show/virtualart.xml
Any ideas???
I’ve got the same error
Error #2032
uvlhuqmske, [url=http://www.nwfjwmcykg.com]ziutqzsttw[/url]
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USA Today has come out with a new survey: Apparently three out of four people make up 75 percent of the population.
Real Programmers always confuse Christmas and Halloween because Oct31 == Dec25 !
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it.
War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
The chain reaction of evil — wars producing more wars — must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.
The trouble with the Internet is that it’s replacing masturbation as a leisure activity.
Quoting Coulter is kind of like quoting Joe McCarthy; no doubt it does well when you’re pandering to a group of like-minded hate mongerers, but it earns you a well-deserved reputation as a vicious, mean-spirited airhead and intellecual lightweight in more analytical and dispassionate circles.
God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time.
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
If you are going through hell, keep going.
Real punks help little old ladies across the street because it shocks more people than if they spit on the sidewalk.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
A man’s only as old as the woman he feels.
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
Future historians will be able to study at the Jimmy Carter Library, the Gerald Ford Library, the Ronald Reagan Library, and the Bill Clinton Adult Bookstore.
Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
I’ve never seen anyone change his mind because of the power of a superior argument or the acquisition of new facts. But I’ve seen plenty of people change behavior to avoid being mocked.
Sex is like a Chinese dinner. It isn’t over until everyone gets their cookies.
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
It’s not that I’m afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I’ll waste no time reading it.
A lady came up to me on the street, pointed at my suede jacket and said, ‘Don’t you know a cow was murdered for that jacket?’ I said ‘I didn’t know there were any witnesses. Now I’ll have to kill you too’.
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
Marry me and I’ll never look at another horse!
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
The Stones, I love the Stones. I watch them whenever I can. Fred, Barney…
If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?
Ah well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.
Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with medals those who prove to be the most adroit killers?
The truth is more important than the facts.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.
Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad.
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they’re going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.
I admire the Pope. I have a lot of respect for anyone who can tour without an album.
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
I’m living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
I must confess, I was born at a very early age.
We don’t make mistakes, we just have happy little accidents.
Let him who takes the Plunge remember to return it by Tuesday.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they’re yours.
You can pretend to be serious; you can’t pretend to be witty.