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Comment on About by Progressing with Processing (for Ian) | Human Plus Design

Progressing with Processing (for Ian) | Human Plus Design — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 18:13:59 +0000

[...] made a New Year’s resolution to get into programming through Processing, partly inspired by Jer Thorpe‘s recent talks …. (OCAD, [...]

Comment on UPDATED: Quick Tutorial – Processing & Twitter by mccoyspace

mccoyspace — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 03:55:35 +0000

Agreed. The new version of Twitter4j changes a bunch of stuff. Here is the middle part of the code showing the new necessary changes. (Also had to add 'Import java.util.Date;' at the very top to get the Date line to work)

//Make the twitter object and prepare the query
Twitter twitter = new TwitterFactory(cb.build()).getInstance();
Query query = new Query("art");
query.setCount(100);

//Try making the query request.
try {
QueryResult result = twitter.search(query);
ArrayList tweets = (ArrayList) result.getTweets();

for (int i = 0; i < tweets.size(); i++) {
Status t = (Status)tweets.get(i);
User user = t.getUser();
String name = user.getName();
String msg = t.getText();
Date d = t.getCreatedAt();
println("Tweet by " + name + " at " + d + ": " + msg);

Comment on UPDATED: Quick Tutorial – Processing & Twitter by hugohil

hugohil — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:48:08 +0000

Thank you so much !
I just had to do some research on the new version of twitter4j (did this on the 3.0.3 with Processing 2.0b.7). Some classes or method changed a bit, for those I had to deal with in this tutorial (but I'm sure many others had too) I found that:
- Tweet became Status.
- Rpp() became count().
- getFromUser() became getUser() so you need to add a line which get the name of you user with getName() like this:
User u=(User) t.getUser();
String user=u.getName();

I hope I'm not reposting, and I hope this helped someone because I'm a noob and it's my very first help comment.
Thanks again, and excuse my english i'm french.

Comment on UPDATED: Quick Tutorial – Processing & Twitter by @lisawilliams

@lisawilliams — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 04:13:34 +0000

Also, it's been awhile since this tutorial was written, so Twitter4j has gone through a few versions. I fiddled with the recent versions of Twitter4j and found them pretty complicated (it's huge). If you just want the .jar file listed above, you can find it here: http://grepcode.com/snapshot/repo1.maven.org/mave…

I dragged & dropped that file onto the Processing sketch window and it worked fine.

Comment on UPDATED: Quick Tutorial – Processing & Twitter by @lisawilliams

@lisawilliams — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 04:11:19 +0000

I tried this and got an error: "Cannot find a type or class named 'Date.'"

I was able to fix it by adding one line: import java.util.*;

Apparently newer versions of Processing only use "official" Java libraries. In any case, after adding this the tutorial works like a charm!

Comment on UPDATED: Quick Tutorial – Processing & Twitter by hyottt

hyottt — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 10:58:05 +0000

i have succeeded using twitter API, however, i do not know how to collect tweets from specific time(which i purposely setup)
i used
query.setSince("2013-01-01")

but the result still gives me tweets from today..
can anyone fix this?

also, does anyone know the limit of amout of tweets i can get from API?
i have read API limiting ..but i am still confused. ..
is the limit based on only the amount? or the time? or both?
can i still collect tweets from past?

help plz

Comment on Multi-faceted Searching with the NYTimes APIs by Kamran

Kamran — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 21:46:03 +0000

It was my mistake. Problem solved. Many thanks for your wonderful work.

Comment on Multi-faceted Searching with the NYTimes APIs by Kamran

Kamran — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:32:36 +0000

When using these classes, I am just getting a runtime error: " — unexpected character '' –" and I can't find whee that comes from. What am I ding wrong?

Comment on Processing, JSON & The New York Times by Genevieve

Genevieve — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:06:28 +0000

For anyone getting the Null Pointer Exception at that line, try changing the code in the url:

It works for me when formatted like this:
String url = baseURL + "?query=" + word + "&publication_year:[" + yr + "]publication_month:[" + m + "]&fields=+&facets=" + facetString + "&api-key=" + apiKey;

Comment on Open Science, H1N1, Processing, and the Google Spreadsheet API by kyle mckinley

kyle mckinley — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:29:22 +0000

hi,
I love your stuff. I'm trying to create some fairly simple concept-map type graphs that are populated with "data" (just text and urls) pulled from a collectively edited google spreadsheet. I think that I could work it out with some help from this example, but I'm wondering how much you think has changed with processing.js, and, I guess, whether you know of any other simple solutions off the top of your head.

thanks for your time and all your generosity!
-kyle