Add Twitter capabilities to your Windows or web applications
The ActiveXperts Twitter Toolkit enables any Windows or web application to integrate Twitter functionality. Your application will be able to send Tweets as well as view different time lines, find
and follow users etc.
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| Startup screen after installation |
Use Twitter Toolkit with MS Visual Studio |
Twitter Toolkit in a web application |
Twitter Toolkit in a .NET forms program |
Twitter Toolkit in a console application |
The ActiveXperts Twitter Toolkit supports the following:
- Post your Tweets on Twitter using your own software
- Easy browsing through your own Tweets or the Tweets on any other time line
- Easy browsing through friends and followers
- Integrated OAuth (Open Authorization) supports both Client and Web use cases
- Authenticate users in only two API calls
- Access all of the functions that are publicly available on Twitters REST interface
- Proved an interface to send custom, OAuth signed, requests to the Twitter REST interface
- ActiveXperts Twitter Toolkit is an ActiveX/COM component that can be integrated in virtually any Windows development environment
System Requirements
ActiveXperts Twitter Toolkit is available as a 32-bit component and as a 64-bit component (both part of the product):
- Twittertk.dll - 32-bit component;
- Twittertk64.dll - 64-bit component.
ActiveXperts Twitter Toolkit runs on the following Operating Systems:
- Windows 2008 (32 and 64 bit);
- Windows 2003 (32 and 64 bit);
- Windows 2000 Server and Professional (32 bit only);
- Windows 7 (32 and 64 bit);
- Windows Vista (32 and 64 bit);
- Windows XP (32 and 64 bit).
Code Snippets and Sample Applications (VBScript)
For most of these samples you will need to have a consumer key and an access key. Use this wizard to
get both a consumer key and an access key.
The following code sample illustrate OAuth authorization for a client application using the Twitter Toolkit.
Option Explicit
Dim objTwitter, objIE
Dim strUrl, strVerify
' Create the twitter object
Set objTwitter = CreateObject( "ActiveXperts.Twitter" )
' Set the consumer key
objTwitter.ConsumerKey = "..................."
objTwitter.ConsumerSecret = ".........................................."
' Request an authorization URL
strUrl = objTwitter.RequestAuthorization
TestSuccess
' Navigate to the Authorization URL
Navigate strUrl
' While on the Authorization URL, ask the user to input the verification code
strVerify = inputbox( "Enter verification code", "Enter value", "" )
' Trade the verify token with an access token
objTwitter.RequestAccessToken strVerify
TestSuccess
' Tweet about our success !
objTwitter.Tweet "I'm Tweeting with ActiveXperts Twitter Toolkit !"
TestSuccess
' Print the access token so it can be used again.
WScript.Echo "Access token: " & objTwitter.AccessToken
WScript.Echo "Access token secret: " & objTwitter.AccessTokenSecret
' *************************************************************************************
' Navigate to a specific URL
Function Navigate( strUrl )
Set objIE = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
objIE.Navigate strUrl
objIE.Visible = 1
Do While objIE.Busy
Loop
End Function
' Test if a function call on the Twitter Toolkit object succeeded
Function TestSuccess()
Dim strDescription
If objTwitter.LastError <> 0 Then
strDescription = objTwitter.GetErrorDescription(objTwitter.LastError)
WScript.Echo "Failed, error: " & objTwitter.LastError & "; " & strDescription
WScript.Quit 1
End If
End Function
List your home time-line
Option Explicit
Dim objTwitter, objTweet, objUser
' Create the twitter object
Set objTwitter = CreateObject( "ActiveXperts.Twitter" )
' Set the consumer key
objTwitter.ConsumerKey = "..................."
objTwitter.ConsumerSecret = ".........................................."
' Set the user key
objTwitter.AccessToken = ".................................................."
objTwitter.AccessTokenSecret = ".........................................."
' List tweets and the users who posted them
' The tweets are from a specific time-line. The following time-lines are possible:
' "public", "home", "friends", "mentions", "retweeted_by_me", "retweeted_to_me",
' "retweeted_of_me" or either a user id or screen name
Set objTweet = objTwitter.FindFirstTweet("home")
While objTwitter.LastError = 0
WScript.Echo "Id: " & objTweet.Id
WScript.Echo "Created at: " & objTweet.CreatedAt
WScript.Echo "Text: " & objTweet.Text
WScript.Echo "Source: " & objTweet.Source
Set objUser = objTweet.User
WScript.Echo "By:"
WScript.Echo vbTab & "Id: " & objUser.Id
WScript.Echo vbTab & "Created at: " & objUser.CreatedAt
WScript.Echo vbTab & "Name: " & objUser.Name
WScript.Echo vbTab & "Screen name: " & objUser.ScreenName
WScript.Echo vbTab & "Location: " & objUser.Location
WScript.Echo vbTab & "Description: " & objUser.Description
WScript.Echo vbTab & "Profile image: " & objUser.ProfileImage
WScript.Echo vbTab & "URL: " & objUser.URL
WScript.Echo vbTab & "Protected: " & objUser.Protected
WScript.Echo vbTab & "Followers: " & objUser.NumFollowers
WScript.Echo vbTab & "Friends: " & objUser.NumFriends
WScript.Echo vbTab & "Tweets: " & objUser.NumTweets
Set objTweet = objTwitter.FindNextTweet
WEnd
List your followers
Option Explicit
Dim objTwitter, objStatus, objUser
' Create the twitter object
Set objTwitter = CreateObject( "ActiveXperts.Twitter" )
' Set the consumer key
objTwitter.ConsumerKey = "..................."
objTwitter.ConsumerSecret = ".........................................."
' Set the user key
objTwitter.AccessToken = ".................................................."
objTwitter.AccessTokenSecret = ".........................................."
' Get all of your followers
Set objUser = objTwitter.FindFirstFollower
While objTwitter.LastError = 0
WScript.Echo "--"
WScript.Echo "Id: " & objUser.Id
WScript.Echo "Created at: " & objUser.CreatedAt
WScript.Echo "Name: " & objUser.Name
WScript.Echo "Screen name: " & objUser.ScreenName
WScript.Echo "Location: " & objUser.Location
WScript.Echo "Description: " & objUser.Description
WScript.Echo "Profile image: " & objUser.ProfileImage
WScript.Echo "URL: " & objUser.URL
WScript.Echo "Protected: " & objUser.Protected
WScript.Echo "Followers: " & objUser.NumFollowers
WScript.Echo "Friends: " & objUser.NumFriends
WScript.Echo "Tweets: " & objUser.NumTweets
Set objUser = objTwitter.FindNextUser
Wend
Make a custom API call
Option Explicit
Dim objTwitter, objXML, objNodeList, strResult, i
' Create the twitter object and an XMLDOM object
Set objTwitter = CreateObject( "ActiveXperts.Twitter" )
Set objXML = CreateObject( "Microsoft.XMLDOM" )
' Set the consumer key
objTwitter.ConsumerKey = "..................."
objTwitter.ConsumerSecret = ".........................................."
' Set the user key
objTwitter.AccessToken = ".................................................."
objTwitter.AccessTokenSecret = ".........................................."
' Make a custom API call
strResult = objTwitter.APICall("statuses/home_timeline", "xml")
' Display the results
objXML.LoadXML(strResult)
Set objNodeList = objXML.selectNodes("//statuses/status/text")
For i = 0 To objNodeList.length
WScript.Echo objNodeList(i).text
Next
