Over the last week or so, I received numerous direct messages from several blog readers regarding my TwitterCacher library. Folks want to know if it's possible to use TwitterCacher with the Twitter Search API. The answer is no, and you shouldn't have to. Using the Twitter Search API, you can write code to read a Twitter feed, or search Twitter, without having a Twitter account. If you want to write an app that simply monitors Twitter, or a feed from a specific user, you might find these examples useful. As shown below, note that you can replace .atom with .json if you want the response in JSON format.- Read a user's feed (get all of their tweets), use from:username ...
XML: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=from%3Amarkkolich
JSON: http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=from%3Amarkkolich - Find all tweets containing a specific hashtag, use tag=[tag] ...
XML: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?tag=hp
JSON: http://search.twitter.com/search.json?tag=hp - Replies to a user (e.g., tweet starts with @markkolich) ...
XML: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=to%3Amarkkolich
JSON: http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=to%3Amarkkolich - Mentioning a user (e.g., tweet contains with @markkolich) ...
XML: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=%40markkolich
JSON: http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=%40markkolich - Referencing a user but not from that user ...
XML: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=markkolich+-from%3Amarkkolich
JSON: http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=markkolich+-from%3Amarkkolich
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