I joined twitter tonight to see what the fuss was about. An hour later, I’d written an importer to copy my twitter statuses — and those of my twitter friends — into my jeffcroft.com Django database.
I’ll use my status info to enhance my tumblelog. Not quite sure what I’m going to do with all my friends’ statuses — but I’ll think of something fun. ;)
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001 // Dachande663 // 11.27.2006 // 11:25 PM
You don’t have to show the friends data, if you copy the rss link of your twitter page it will show only your twitters.002 // Jeff Croft // 11.27.2006 // 11:50 PM
Right, I know that. But I’m using the API, not the RSS — and I wanted the friends data. I might not display it publicly right away, but I wanted to store it all so I could do something fun with it down the road.003 // Michael Heilemann // 11.28.2006 // 3:07 AM
Nice… I’d thought about that for WP. Though with my skillz it’s take more than an hour :)004 // Dachande663 // 11.28.2006 // 8:55 AM
Ah, my bad, sorry. Can’t wait to see what you cook up for it though.005 // gravesit // 11.28.2006 // 3:31 PM
You are becoming the django/api master!!006 // scottmccracken // 12.05.2006 // 3:55 PM
That’s fantastic! It’s truly eye-opening to me how quickly something like this could be accomplished. I’m still trying to wrap my head around how to import data into my Django backend from these open APIs — cronjobs, python, xmltramp, the whole 9 yards. I’m hoping that once I’m able to work successfully with one API, that others will start to make more sense. Jeff — do you know of any resources or tutorials for this sort of thing? Many thanks!