Twitter4j and Geo Locations
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1 years ago
I've been exploring the Twitter4j library for a class demo, with Jer Thorp's tutorial as a starting point.
So far everything has worked well, but I notice that every time I try to grab a geo location, it's consistently NULL.
Am I missing something? Or can it really be that SO MANY tweets have no geo-locations associated with them?? I've tried every method, object/constructor and field I can find with "geo" in the name... Everything has been null.
For testing, this code just pulls one tweet using noLoop() and a getTweet() function. A mouse event gets a new tweet...
//Build an ArrayList to hold all of the words that we get from the imported tweets
ArrayList<String> words = new ArrayList();
ConfigurationBuilder cb = new ConfigurationBuilder();
Twitter twitter;
void setup() {
//Set the size of the stage, and the background to black.
size(100, 100);
background(0);
smooth();
//Credentials
cb.setOAuthConsumerKey("yours");
cb.setOAuthConsumerSecret("
yours
");
cb.setOAuthAccessToken("
yours
");
cb.setOAuthAccessTokenSecret("
yours
");
//Make the twitter object and prepare the query
twitter = new TwitterFactory(cb.build()).getInstance();
noLoop();
}
void draw() {
getTweet();
}
void getTweet()
{
Query query = new Query("i%love%you");
query.setRpp(1);
//Try making the query request.
try {
QueryResult result = twitter.search(query);
ArrayList tweets = (ArrayList) result.getTweets();
Tweet t = (Tweet) tweets.get(0); //just get one for now...
double lat=0;
double lon=0; //These aren't doing anything right now
String user = t.getFromUser();
String msg = t.getText();
Date d = t.getCreatedAt();
//Attempted Geotagging
GeoLocation g = t.getGeoLocation(); //Nothing...
GeoQuery gq = new GeoQuery(g); //Nothing...
GeoLocation ng = gq.getLocation();
println(g + ":" + ng); //Nulls all around
println(msg);
}
catch (TwitterException te) {
println("Couldn't connect: " + te);
}
}
void mousePressed()
{
redraw(); // Get a new tweet
}
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