Question

What I m trying to do is pull some search results, and sort them by users.

Right now I m using $to->OAuthRequest( http://search.twitter.com/search.json , array( q => search-term ), GET );

to get the results, but I can t actually get information about the user like follower_count, etc. so I though I d take each result s user_id, and run it through http://twitter.com/users/show.xml to get the rest of the information.

The problem is, if I get 50 results that way, that s 50 API calls, which is 1/3 of the hourly limit...

Is there a better way to do this?

Answer 1

Update:

I have requested whitelisting, and the guys at Twitter told me I should instead use the new Streaming API.

This kinda sucks since it s in Alpha testing, and the documentation is unclear, but the concept looks cool, and the limits are different than the regular API. Gonna dive into it later.

Answer 2

Only reliable user information you can get from twitter search results are username (from_user) and profile image url. If you want more information, you will have to call the users/show method for each user. There is no workaround or better way(that I m aware of).

You will have to Cache user information and request whitelisting.

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