Net::Twitter::Role::AutoCursor - Help transition to cursor based access to friends_ids and followers_ids methods
version 4.01020
use Net::Twitter; my $nt = Net::Twitter->new( traits => [qw/AutoCursor API::RESTv1_1 RetryOnError OAuth/], # additional ags... ); # Get friends_ids or followers_ids without worrying about cursors my $ids = $nt->followers_ids; my $nt = Net::Twitter->new( traits => [ qw/API::RESTv1_1 RetryOnError OAuth/ AutoCursor => { max_calls => 32 }, AutoCursor => { max_calls => 4, force_cursor => 1, array_accessor => 'users', methods => [qw/friends followers/], }, ], # additional args ); # works with any Twitter call that takes a cursor parameter my $friends = $nt->friends;
On 25-Mar-2011, Twitter announced a change to friends_ids and followers_ids API methods:
friends_ids
followers_ids
[Soon] followers/ids and friends/ids is being updated to set the cursor to -1 if it isn't supplied during the request. This changes the default response format
This will break a lot of existing code. The AutoCursor trait was created to help users transition to cursor based access for these methods.
AutoCursor
With default parameters, the AutoCursor trait attempts a non-cursored call for friends_ids and followers_ids. If it detects a cursored response from Twitter, it continues to call the underlying Twitter API method, with the next cursor, until it has received all results or 16 calls have been made (yielding 80,000 results). It returns an ARRAY reference to the combined results.
If the cursor parameter is passed to friends_ids or followers_ids, Net::Twitter assumes the user is handling cursoring and does not modify behavior or results.
cursor
Net::Twitter
The AutoCursor trait is parameterized, allowing it to work with any Twitter API method that expects cursors, returning combined results for up to the maximum number of calls specified.
AutoCursor can be applied multiple times to handle different sets of API methods.
An integer specifying the maximum number of API calls to make. Default is 16.
max_calls can be overridden on a per-call basis by passing a max_calls argument to the API method.
max_calls
If true, when the caller does not provide a cursor parameter, AutoCursor will use up to max_calls cursored calls rather than attempting an initial non-cursored call. Default is 0.
The name of the HASH key used to access the ARRAY ref of results in the data structure returned by Twitter. Default is ids.
ids
A reference to an ARRAY containing the names of Twitter API methods to which AutoCursor will be applied.
Synthetic parameter -max_calls can be passed for individual method calls to override the default:
-max_calls
$r = $nt->followers_ids({ -max_calls => 200 }); # get up to 1 million ids
Synthetic parameter -force_cursor can be passed to override the force_cursor default.
-force_cursor
force_cursor
Marc Mims <marc@questright.com>
Copyright (c) 2016 Marc Mims
This library is free software and may be distributed under the same terms as perl itself.
To install Net::Twitter, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Net::Twitter
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Net::Twitter
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