Twitter4J getting the users screen name

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Twitter4J getting the users screen name

in Contributed Library Questions • 2 years ago

On line 53 I want to print the screen name for the current tweet being interrogated. However I cant seem to extract just the screen name of the person doing the tweet. The closest I've got to it is element.getUser(); which has the screen name inside it but I dont know how to specify that I only want the screenName and not the other stuff..

Twitter4J User Interface Documentation

Currently what gets returned is:

UserJSONImpl{, id=126347593, name='Mortimar ', screenName='obfuscativeone', location='null', description='null', profileImageUrl='http://s.twimg.com/a/1291318259/images/default_profile_1_normal.png', url='null', isProtected=false, followersCount=0, status=null, profileBackgroundColor='C0DEED', profileTextColor='333333', profileLinkColor='0084B4', profileSidebarFillColor='DDEEF6', profileSidebarBorderColor='C0DEED', friendsCount=0, createdAt=Thu Mar 25 15:32:53 GMT 2010, favouritesCount=0, utcOffset=-1, timeZone='null', profileBackgroundImageUrl='http://s.twimg.com/a/1291318259/images/themes/theme1/bg.png', profileBackgroundTile='false', statusesCount=43, geoEnabled=false, verified=false}

If someone could point me in the right direction, I would be very grateful.

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anchnk

Re: Twitter4J getting the users screen name

2 years ago

I can't read the Twitter4J javadoc here.
For some reason twitter is unauthorized by corporation proxy ;).
So i don't know if there's an Twitter4J's inner method to extract that value (i guess that must be).

Your result is JSON formatted.
So i see two options:

Use an JSON java library
Parse the string using regular expressions (see match() and split()).

anchnk

Re: Twitter4J getting the users screen name

2 years ago

The option 2 could be something like that :

String userName = match(element.getUser(), "screenName='([a-z0-9\\_]+)'")[1];

Supposing that element.getUser() return a string.

Update : seems that twitter only allow underscore special character

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Re: Twitter4J getting the users screen name

2 years ago

thanks for the replies, I figured it out shortly after posting here >.<

I got it to be a string by making this variable.

String userString = element.getUser().getScreenName();

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