API consume

Question

API consume

trante opened this issue 13 years ago · 5 comments

I'm sorry if this is wrong place to ask.
To get user's avatar we still must consume RESTFUL Api?
We can't make it with streaming api which isn't rate limited?

So how do you manage it in "http://twivatar.herokuapp.com/"
Don't you consume API rates.?
AFAIK there is no whitelisted application.
Thank you.

Answer 1 · 2012-04-11T11:38:34.000Z

Just point the avatar to:
http://twitter.com/api/users/profile_image/<screen_name>

ie.

On 11 April 2012 09:27, trante
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I'm sorry if this is wrong place to ask.
To get user's avatar we still must consume RESTFUL Api?
We can't make it with streaming api which isn't rate limited?

So how do you manage it in "http://twivatar.herokuapp.com/"
Don't you consume API rates.?
AFAIK there is no whitelisted application.
Thank you.

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Answer 2 · 2012-04-11T13:42:10.000Z

Ok. Thank you.

Answer 3 · 2012-04-11T14:16:44.000Z

I suppose "http://twitter.com/api/users/profile_image/<screen_name>" is also rate limited?

Regarding to link

But your app (http://twivatar.herokuapp.com/[screen_name) is not rate limited, or..

Answer 4 · 2012-04-11T14:24:10.000Z

Per user - so it's client side, but possibly - check their
documentation. I suspect it's around 2000 per hour, but it could be
more.

On 11 April 2012 15:16, trante
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I suppose "http://twitter.com/api/users/profile_image/<screen_name>" is also rate limited?

Regarding to <a href="https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1/get/users/profile_image/:screen_name"

link

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Answer 5 · 2012-04-11T15:03:55.000Z

I was thinking that rate limit is per application but it is per user.
Where 350 request/hour is reasonable, so that's ok.
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/rate-limiting/faq

Thank you again.