Hi Taylor,
Thanks for your suggestions. We want to use twitter data to provide a
user-oriented search based on tweets in a personalised context. The idea to
use it from a client is not feasible since, the product is expected to have
a thin client i.e. browser. We have developed an algorithm which is
expected to sort out tweets based on relevance of the query. Therefore we
need to collate the data at the web server.
The streaming api does not seem to retrieve older data, and that might well
be very relevant, since, lots of queries will require older data in which
case a search api query is required. That will hit the ip-address limit.
Could any alternative be suggested?
Thanks & Regards
Umashankar Das
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Taylor Singletary <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Umashankar,
>
> Just an additional note that Twitter doesn't yet offer an authenticated
> search API -- the Search API is subject to per-IP Address rate limits that
> are apart from the rate limits afforded in the standard REST API on
> api.twitter.com. If your primary goal is to provide ad-hoc search, then
> the unauthenticated Search API will work for a limited amount of queries
> (but will require a larger caching infrastructure on your part as you grow).
> Another alternative with unauthenticated search is to push the search API
> queries to the client (web browser) so that the search query limits apply to
> the user's IP address that is utilizing your application.
>
> If you're going to be tracking multiple search queries and are providing
> those tweets for display to your users, then the Streaming API is probably a
> better fit. It's wise to consider the end-user-authenticated variations
> provided in User Streams and Site Streams (which might be better for your
> scenario) http://dev.twitter.com/pages/streaming_api
>
> What kind of search-based app are you looking to build?
>
> Taylor
>
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 7:00 AM, Umashankar Das
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Thanks, It has been a big help. Looks like twitter does not want to
>> respond to me :).
>>
>> Regards
>> Umashankar Das
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Mauro Asprea <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> I don't know if this would help you but is a nice overview about a)
>>> Search vs streaming
>>> http://140dev.com/twitter-api-programming-tutorials/aggregating-tweets-search-api-vs-streaming-api/
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Umashankar Das
>>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> We are working on a product which will do searches on twitter from a
>>>> certain server system. We are yet to take a decision whether the searches
>>>> will be anonymous(Non-authenticated) or authenticated.
>>>>
>>>> The decision is subject to limitations on search results using twitter
>>>> search / streaming apis. I was hoping if you could provide info or
>>>> references based which provide the information. We hope to have substantial
>>>> number of unique search (pattern) queries from a particular ip-addresses.
>>>> Although , the users by themselves are expected to have much lesser
>>>> queries.
>>>> We are willing to put a limit of < 30 per hour for the search queries which
>>>> are authenticated.
>>>>
>>>> Please advise on the specs . We do expect that twitter will get many new
>>>> users after our product is launched. Educated guesses will also be useful
>>>> for us in making a design decision :)
>>>>
>>>> Parameters:
>>>> a) Search vs streaming
>>>> b) anonymous vs authenticated
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> Umashankar Das
>>>>
>>>>
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