Retrieves the timeline for a particular Twitter™ user or list. Access to the Twitter timeline API is rate-limited. Excessive access in a given time period will result in requests being denied. The exact rate limit information for the user and list timeline APIs may be found at the API documentation pages:
http://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/statuses/user_timeline
http://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/lists/statuses
Output Ports
Tweets
Upon successful completion of the request, the transformer will output a new feature for each tweet in the timeline. Each output feature will contain several attributes:
_tweet_id: The identification number of the tweet.
_tweet_status: The text of the tweet.
_tweet_created_at: The date and time of the status update. This will be formatted in the standard FME date/time format: YYYYMMDDHHMMSS
_tweet_username: The screen name of the user who created the tweet.
_tweet_search_result: The JSON text of the status update. This can be further examined via the JSONFragmenter and JSONExtractor transformers.
Error
If a request could not be completed, the feature will be output through the Error output port, and will have the following new attributes:
_twitter_search_result: If a response was received from the Twitter server, it will be stored in this attribute.
_twitter_error: If the Twitter response contained an error message, it will be stored in this attribute.
Parameters
Timeline Parameters
Type
Select the type of timeline to fetch. The transformer can fetch a user timeline, or a list timeline.
Name
When fetching a user timeline, use this parameter to enter the user whose updates are to be retrieved. When fetching a list timeline, use this parameter to enter the name of the list. This attribute may be set to an attribute value.
List Owner
When fetching a list timeline, use this parameter to enter the name of the twitter user that owns the list being fetched.
Include Re-tweets
When fetching a list timeline, this parameter may be used to filter out re-tweets. If it is set to ‘Yes’, the output may contain re-tweets. If the parameter is set to ‘No’, re-tweets will be removed from the transformer results.
Maximum Number of Results
The maximum number of tweets to be returned. Note that twitter may return fewer tweets than this number.
Authentication Parameters
Note: For access outside of your network using a proxy server, use the Network tools in FME Options. From the Workbench menu, select Tools > FME Options > Network. For more information, see "Network" in the FME Workbench Help.
Twitter Username and Password
All user timeline requests require a valid twitter username and password.
Editing Transformer Parameters
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beside the applicable parameter. For more information, see Transformer Parameter Menu Options.
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