Twitter Example

Twitter has a very thorough API that is well-documented in RAML.

In this example we’ll load and examine your followers list (you’ll need a Twitter account).

First, let’s create a Twitter client:

// Read about the Twitter API at https://anypoint.mulesoft.com/apiplatform/popular/#/portals/organizations/52560d3f-c37a-409d-9887-79e0a9a9ecff/apis/6308/versions/6302
API.createClient('twitterRestApi', 'https://anypoint.mulesoft.com/apiplatform/repository/v2/organizations/52560d3f-c37a-409d-9887-79e0a9a9ecff/public/apis/6308/versions/6302/files/api.raml');

And now let’s authenticate the client. By omitting the parameters to the authenticate method, we’ll use the API Notebook’s default Twitter keys.

//Authenticate client
API.authenticate(twitterRestApi);

Now we have an authenticated client for the Twitter API.

We can see the available endpoints by exploring through the Notebook’s typeahead:

//View the available methods by adding a dot after twitterRestApi..
twitterRestApi

Let’s take a look at your followers:

// Collect the IDs of your followers
followers = twitterRestApi.followers.ids.json.get();

Now followers holds the response to our request.

We asked Twitter for a list of our followers' ids, so let’s take a look at our most recent follower:

//Capture our most recent follower's id
lastFollowerId = followers.body.ids[0];
'Our most recent follower ID is ' + lastFollowerId;

Great! Let’s get some information about this follower.

// Show profile information.
lastFollower = twitterRestApi.users.show.json.get({
user_id: lastFollowerId
});

// Display screen name.
'Your last follower\'s screenname is ' + lastFollower.body.screen_name;

That’s just the beginning of what you can do with the Twitter API. Fork this notebook to explore it on your own.