Support for search?

[davidw]

I had a dig through the code, and a number of things indicate that twitter's search methods are not supported. For instance, the base_url is https://twitter.com, whereas the search API says that it's necessary to use search.twitter.com:

http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-Search-API-Method%3A-search

Thanks,
Dave

[mbleigh]

The Search API doesn't require authentication so I haven't worked in any support for it yet. You can just make straight up calls to the API like this:

require 'open_uri'
require 'json'

def twitter_search(query)
  JSON.parse(open("http://search.twitter.com/search.format?q=#{CGI.escape(query)}").read)
end

That's a simple example, but it works. I will be adding Twitter Search support as an eventual result of #1 because I will be integrating search into my TwitterDispatch gem. Hope that helps.

[mbleigh]

This will be implemented once Grackle is integrated into TwitterAuth.