By kding on

Feed API asks for user name and password to fetch feed items from a twitter account. But Feed Aggregator module needs nothing but a twitter's RSS. I was wondering why?

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OpenChimp commented

I was trying to get a simple listing of Tweets to show up by turning the RSS Feed into nodes (Tweets) and then use views to display them, but when I create new feeds and provide a twitter rss feed url, no new items are found, presumably because of this same issue.

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nbchip commented

Same thing here, but passing it trough yahoo pipes solves the problem

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PettyRider commented

I struggled with this today too and found a simple solution.

I switched from the .rss URI to .atom and it worked perfectly. The .rss doesn't seem malformed at all. Actually, some RSS feeds would work but only a few items would get picked up by FeedAPI. Strange. Maybe it has to do with the built-in parser (which I assume uses SimpleXML).

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seaneffel commented

I'm using Feed API 6.x-1.6 and having no trouble pulling Twitter feeds and creating nodes. If you can give me more information maybe I can help you solve it.

I am using an RSS feed based on a Twitter search. Run a search and get the RSS link from the resulting page. In my case I am getting a twitter feed of all posts tagged as #drupalcon. My rss feed looks like this:

http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=%23drupalcon

I created a "feed" node, then within that node I chose a target content type to create nodes of all future RSS feed items. In this case selected the target to be a custom content type I called "tweet" with just a body and title. Then I mapped the incoming twitter fields into appropriate "tweet" fields in your content type. It's tricky, but it works fine for me.

You can find a screencast on using Feed API to get Blip.tv feeds, maybe it will help you get moving. http://www.drupaltherapy.com/node/34

Good luck.

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kding commented

Thank you all for the following up. seaneffel, I tried your method and it works. thank you. It looks like if the RSS is individual account Feed API asks for user name and password. If it is from a search it is fine. Am I right on this?
Thanks a gain.

BTW, how to get tweets in title and leave the body empty since they are the same 140 characters?

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summit commented

SUbscribing, interesting in twitterfeeds also.
greetings,
Martijn

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nbchip commented

I have done this using Yahoo Pipes, just search "Twitter Feed without Replies and without Description ".

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seaneffel commented

Feed Element Mapper module is your friend here. You can use that module to send incoming twitter fields into any Drupal node field that you want. I have a screencast on Feed API on drupaltherapy.com if you haven't seen it yet.

Good luck.

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kding commented

Hello, days ago I found that twitter's RSS feed started to work with Feed API. I was able to grab RSS feeds from twitter users when the feeds is like this: http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/xxxxxxxx.rss. Note it is "user_timeline" in the middle not "friends_timeline." just an update.

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parrottvision commented

Great video Sean - the problem I have is that the Twitter feed provides a
field which has a thumbnail of the twitter member. But this doesn't show in the feed element mapper. Any ideas? I have tried the simplepie parser and the common syndication parser but neither seems to allow me to map the element.

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seaneffel commented

I couldn't advise you on this, I don't know what kind of format that Twitter user icon is presented in. Might be an RSS enclosure issue. Should open an issue on the Feed Element Mapper issue queue, those guys would know more than me.

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alfaguru commented

I had exactly this problem with Twitter and checked the RSS version with several XML parsers, all of which choked on a wrongly formed URL (an ampersand which hadn't been translated to the equivalent entity). The .atom version was fine, so that's what I'm using.

Regarding the original question, it depends on which Twitter REST interface is used whether credentials are required or not. I understand that the username and password authentication method will shortly be deprecated in favour of OAuth, which may cause unnecessary complications for anyone using this protocol purely server-side. I hope Twitter have thought about that!

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canishk commented

Hi,

I tried to add twitter RSS Feed using Aggregator, in both atom and rss format got the error

The feed from my tweets seems to be broken, because of error "401 Unauthorized".

Please suggest a solution for adding Twitter Feeds

Regards,

Anish Karim C.