Re: [Chicken-users] New egg: clucker (Twitter API)

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

Hey Nick,

On Tue, 30 Jun 2015 15:43:56 -0400 Nick Van Horn <address@hidden> wrote:

> I'm happy to announce the first release of the "clucker" egg, which
> provides access methods to Twitter's public api endpoints.
>
> Currently, the egg:
>
> * Provides access to all (two) public streaming api endpoints
>   (https://dev.twitter.com/streaming/public).
>
> * Provides access to all GET methods on the REST api
>   (https://dev.twitter.com/rest/public).
>
> * Includes oauth procedures for handling credentials (via the oauth egg).
>
> * Provides customizable parameters for each api call that control how
>   returned data is processed. Default behavior is simply `read-line`,
>   which means you get strings of json in return. This can be easily
>   set to something more useful such as `read-json` from the medea egg.
>
> I've been successfully using the egg in an application I've been
> developing. I've written some procedures for this other application
> that handle things such as rate limits (api requests are limited by
> number of calls, and reset after set amounts of time), pagination of
> results, etc. If others are interested, I'd be happy to share what
> I've done, or simply include these procedures in the clucker egg.
>
> A big TODO is to add the remaining REST api POST methods, which have
> been ignored to date due to me not needing them in my other project :P
>
> If one of the maintainers (Mario?) could add this to the egg
> repository I would appreciate it. The egg passes salmonella and should
> be ready to go. You can find the repo at
> https://github.com/n3mo/clucker

Excellent.  Thanks a lot, Nick.  I've added your egg to the coop.

Please, consider providing some documentation in qwiki format when you
have a chance (so your egg will be indexed by http://api.call-cc.org).

Best wishes.
Mario
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