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martinmc

Twitter4j - reply to tweet

in Contributed Library Questions • 3 months ago

Hi,

Has anybody any ideas on how to reply to a tweet using Twitter4j?

I want to be able for search for tweets, and when I find these tweets, I want to be able to reply to a particular tweet.

Say I'm searching for tweets with the work 'ProcessingForum'. I search for these tweets, and get the ScreenName by using getScreenName();. I can send tweets to anybody who has tweeted something with the string 'ProcessingForum', but I want to be able to reply to the particular tweet that has mentioned 'ProcessingFroum'.

Any Ideas?

Some code below that shows how I'm doing it so far

String sendto = ""; ///////string to store the ScreenName
void setup() {
size(100,100);
background(0);
connectTwitter();
getTimeline(); //gets tweets from my timeline
getSearchTweets(); //gets any tweets with the defined string ///get the screen name before I send the tweet\\\\\
sendTweet("@"+ sendto + " You just tweeted about arsejesustweeting, you pup! (attempt #5)");
}
void getSearchTweets() { //search for all tweets
String queryStr = "ProcessingForum";
try {
Query query = new Query(queryStr);
query.count(10); // Get 10 of the 100 search results
QueryResult result = twitter.search(query);
ArrayList tweets = (ArrayList) result.getTweets();
for (int i=0; i<tweets.size(); i++) {
//Tweet t = (Tweet)tweets.get(i);
//String user = t.getFromUser();
//String msg = t.getText();
Status t=(Status) tweets.get(i);
User u=(User) t.getUser();
String user=u.getName();
String scrName=u.getScreenName(); //////////gets the screen name\\\\\\\\\\\
long id=u.getId();
String msg = t.getText();
String rply = t.getInReplyToScreenName();
Date d = t.getCreatedAt();
theSearchTweets[i] = msg.substring(queryStr.length()+1);
println("Tweet by " + scrName + " at " + d + ": " + msg);
println(theSearchTweets[i]);
println("In reply to this Screen Name" + rply);
sendto = scrName;
}
} catch (TwitterException e) {
println("Search tweets: " + e);
}
}

Replies(2)

PhiLho

Re: Twitter4j - reply to tweet

3 months ago

Went to the site. Saw the http://twitter4j.org/en/api-support.html page. Spotted the Update feature: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/post/statuses/update
The in_reply_to_status_id field looks what you want.

martinmc

Re: Re: Twitter4j - reply to tweet

3 months ago

Hi PhiLho,

Yes, you are correct! Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

For anyone else who might need to do this, you need to get the statusId of the tweet you want to reply to, and then you need to put a lower case 'L' (as in 'L' for Larry, but lower case) after the ID, which is a number.

Code is below.

Apparently there is also another way to get it working too, a way that looks simpler, but I can't get that going.

try {
//long inReplyToStatusId = 353864091569364995l; //need to put a small 'l' (as in lower case L for Larry) in after the tweet id
//StatusUpdate statusUpdate = new StatusUpdate("@teaassasin replying to my tweet attempt#2"); // message i want to post as a reply to the above tweet
//statusUpdate.inReplyToStatusId(inReplyToStatusId);
//Status status = twitter.updateStatus(statusUpdate);
//println("Successfully updated the status to [" + status.getText() + "].");
//Status status = twitter.updateStatus("@teaassasin reply to teaassasin tweet #3", 353864091569364995l); //orig https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/twitter4j/in_reply_to_status_id/twitter4j/8n6lweif9gk/EAR58xKs_PoJ
//println("Successfully updated the status to [" + status.getText() + "]."); //orig
}
catch(TwitterException e) {
println("Send tweet: " + e + " Status code: " + e.getStatusCode());
}

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