Trends in twitter4j

fresh2k

Hey everyone, I'm fairly new to processing, but I'm having a lot of fun and I try to learn as fast as I can. Im copying code here and there, and i customize it to my needs, understanding more and more of it. I managed to import the twitter4j library and I have no problems searching for tweets, but I'm really confused by trends. I'm not yet smart enough to fully understand the JavaDoc, but I found the getTrends() function a few days ago, but I have absolutely no clue how to call for it. I tried everything I could, but I couldnt get it to work.

Basically, I wanna make a trendsQuery just like my twitterQuery that offers trends as a result, not tweets.

I hope someone can help me out, i would really appreciate it.

simplified version of code so far:

import java.util.*; import twitter4j.*; Twitter twitter; String [] receivedTweets = new String[100]; int x = 1; void setup() { // TWITTER AUTH ---TWITTER AUTH ---TWITTER AUTH ---TWITTER AUTH ---TWITTER AUTH ---TWITTER AUTH ---TWITTER AUTH ---TWITTER AUTH ---TWITTER AUTH ---TWITTER AUTH ---TWITTER AUTH --- ConfigurationBuilder cb = new ConfigurationBuilder(); cb.setOAuthConsumerKey("---"); cb.setOAuthConsumerSecret("---"); cb.setOAuthAccessToken("---"); cb.setOAuthAccessTokenSecret("---"); TwitterFactory tf = new TwitterFactory(cb.build()); twitter = tf.getInstance(); // --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- background(0); fullScreen(P3D, 1); twitterQuery("#design"); } void draw() { frameRate(24); fill(0, 10); rect(0, 0, 1920, 1080); noCursor(); } void twitterQuery(String searchString) { Query query = new Query(searchString); query.count(100); println("Query made."); //Try making the query request. try { QueryResult result = twitter.search(query); ArrayList<Status> tweets = (ArrayList<Status>) result.getTweets(); for (int i = 0; i < tweets.size(); i++) { Status t = tweets.get(i); User u = (User) t.getUser(); String user = u.getName(); String msg = t.getText(); Date d = t.getCreatedAt(); receivedTweets[i] = msg; println("Put " + receivedTweets[i] + " in Array at pos " + i); } } catch (TwitterException te) { println("Couldn't connect: " + te); }; } void mousePressed() { fill(255); println(receivedTweets[x]); text(receivedTweets[x], 100, 100); x++; }