1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="absolute" 
      addedToStage="init()">
  <mx:Script>
    <![CDATA[
      import twitter.api.data.TwitterStatus;
      import twitter.api.events.TwitterEvent;
      import twitter.api.TwitterSearch;
        import twitter.api.Twitter;
 
      private static const TWITTER_USER:String = "stephenfry";
 
      private var _twitter:Twitter;
      private var _twitterSearch:TwitterSearch;
 
      private function init():void{
        _twitter = new Twitter();
        _twitterSearch = new TwitterSearch();
 
        _twitter.loadUserTimeline(TWITTER_USER);
        _twitter.addEventListener(TwitterEvent.ON_USER_TIMELINE_RESULT, 
            userTimelineResult);
 
        _twitterSearch.addKeyword("ipad");
        _twitter.addEventListener(TwitterEvent.ON_SEARCH, onSearchResult, 
            false,0,true);
        _twitter.search(_twitterSearch);
      }
 
      private function userTimelineResult(e:TwitterEvent):void {
        var twitterStatus:TwitterStatus;
        for (var i in e.data) {
          twitterStatus = e.data[i]
          trace("user tweets",twitterStatus.text)
        }
      }
 
      private function onSearchResult(event : TwitterEvent) : void{
        var twitterStatus : TwitterStatus;
        for (var i : int = 0; i < event.data.length; i++){
          twitterStatus = event.data[i];
          trace("search result:",twitterStatus.text);
        }
      }
    ]]>
  </mx:Script>
</mx:Application>

19 Responses to “Twitter AS3 library TwitterScript Flex Example”

1. Peter says:

   27 June 2009 at 15:43

   Thank you very much, this was very helpful!
2. Creating a Twitter Widget Using Flex and TwitterScript | The Blog of Jon Karna says:

   14 July 2009 at 5:00

   [...] google code, you can find TwitterScript.  My initial widget was based on this article, Twitter AS3 library TwitterScript Flex Example.  To find out more user feedback, I was lead to this article, Twitter and Flash (twitterscript). [...]
3. Twitter Widget using Flex 3 Revisited | The Blog of Jon Karna says:

   25 July 2009 at 22:22

   [...] google code, you can find TwitterScript.  My initial widget was based on this article, Twitter AS3 library TwitterScript Flex Example.  To find out more user feedback, I was lead to this article, Twitter and Flash (twitterscript). [...]
4. hemanth says:

   3 September 2009 at 13:47

   where do i get the document for the apis of twitter script
5. johannes says:

   3 September 2009 at 14:05

   Actually, as I said in my text above, there is no twitter script documentation.

   if you are looking however for the documentation of the twitter API you will find it here: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/
6. Brian Sobel says:

   23 September 2009 at 23:23

   Thanks Much. True, my documentation search was not fruitful.
7. Abhi says:

   15 December 2009 at 8:04

   Hi,

   I m new to FLEX

   I tried this code but I got an error “Type was not found or was not a compile time constant: TwitterEvent”

   and

   A file found in a source-path must have the same package structure ”, as the
   definition’s package, ‘com.oreilly.aircookbook.ch16′. twitter/src

   TwitterUserVO.as Unknown 1260790250093 385

   Please help me out.

   Thanks.
8. johannes says:

   15 December 2009 at 12:32

   you have to put the twitterscript swc on your classpath: http://twitterscript.googlecode.com/files/TwitterApi.1.3.swc

   i don’t know where this comes from:
   “com.oreilly.aircookbook.ch16″
9. Kimi says:

   27 January 2010 at 18:11

   Thanks for sharing!
   There is realy no documentation out there, so i am using your code to start with the twitterscript api.
   But i have one question: why do you create _twitterSearch? you never use it. Did you try using _twitterSearch?

   Thanks!
10. Kimi says:

    27 January 2010 at 18:56

    i found out using the _twitterSearch

    _twitter = new Twitter();
    _twitterSearch = new TwitterSearch();
    _twitterSearch.addKeyword(“apple”);
    _twitter.addEventListener(TwitterEvent.ON_SEARCH, onSearchResult, false,0,true);
    _twitter.search(_twitterSearch);

    private function onSearchResult(event : TwitterEvent) : void
    {
    var twitterStatus : TwitterStatus;
    for (var i : int = 0; i < event.data.length; i++)
    {
    twitterStatus = event.data[i];
    trace(twitterStatus.text);
    }
    }
11. johannes says:

    27 January 2010 at 19:37

    hi kimi,
    thank you for sharing your knowledge! i will update the entry soon.

    you were completely right: i never used _twitterSearch in my example code.

    cheers,
    johannes
12. Ben says:

    29 January 2010 at 15:25

    Thanx for this.

    Has anyone trying to Authorize a user?

    I tried doing this _twitter.setAuthenticationCredentials(“myusername”, “myPass”);

    But I recieve an error and read on many blogs and on Adobes website that you cant user – http://kb.adobe.com/selfserviceviewContent.do?externalId=kb403184. but has anyone found a work around for this?
13. Nico says:

    5 February 2010 at 14:54

    Hi,

    1 question:

    I tried to use the “Search”… The results are coming in, but their “TwitterUser” Objects are blank ?!

    Have i to atuh myself first or something like that?
14. Mike says:

    13 March 2010 at 10:03

    There are other options out there now, Tweetr is a good one. Lots of documentation, can be used with pure AS3
    http://tweetr.swfjunkie.com/
15. Greg says:

    19 April 2010 at 18:26

    I am getting this error when I try to run the search function -
    ReferenceError: Error #1069: Property length not found on com.twitter.api.data.TwitterSearchData and there is no default value.

    Any ideas??
16. Leandro Cavalcante says:

    2 June 2010 at 18:29

    Hi, you saved my life!

    Ran perfectly, i just use the “fromUser” to filter my search and finish!

    Thanks for your example.

    Best Regards.
17. Albert Frostgena says:

    24 September 2010 at 22:45

    I got the same problem when I try to search anything they throw this error that property lenght not found. What I solve that problem? I’m trying to search anything and got some problems.

    Thanks in advance!
18. Neil says:

    5 October 2010 at 17:03

    I tested in Flex 3 and it works fine, but when I try to use it in Flex 4 I get two errors, Doesn’t recognise these two functions:

    loadUserTimeline
    search

    I guess its something to do with importing of the swc, not sure any pointers anyone? I put it all in

    Thanks
19. M.USAMA says:

    23 April 2012 at 16:14

    I’m trying to use Flash CS4/AS3 to pull in the latest Twitter entries for a user, and it works fine when i run it locally, but i receive this error when it’s on a server:

    TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert flash.events::SecurityErrorEvent@25590431 to flash.events.IOErrorEvent.
    at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
    at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
    at flash.net::URLLoader/redirectEvent()

    Has anyone run into this before? Any ideas? I’m also open to other Twitter API’s seeing as there isn’t really an official one anymore. Thanks in advance!