What is API URL executed by Twitter4j? (Search API) - api

Question

I use Twitter4J libraries to access Twitter through their Search API.
I provide such a query to Twitter4j:
Query{query='#hungergames', lang='null', locale='null', maxId=-1, rpp=100, page=-1, since='null', sinceId=241378725860618240, geocode='null', until='null', resultType='recent', nextPageQuery='null'}
and
result = twitter.search(query);
but I am not sure what URL is executes internally.
Any insights into how I can find that out?
I know Twitter API documents how I should form the URL to query something here but I want to know what URL did Twitter4J execute.

Answer 1

The easiest way would probably be to sniff network traffic with a tool like Wireshark.
I used the following code to replicate your query:
public static void main(String[] args) throws TwitterException {
Twitter twitter = new TwitterFactory().getInstance();
Query query = new Query("#hungergames");
query.rpp(100);
query.setSinceId(241378725860618240L);
query.setResultType(Query.RECENT);
System.out.println(query);
QueryResult result = twitter.search(query);
for (Tweet tweet : result.getTweets()) {
System.out.println(tweet.getFromUser() + ":" + tweet.getText());
}
}
The line that prints the query gives me:
Query{query='#hungergames', lang='null', locale='null', maxId=-1, rpp=100, page=-1, since='null', sinceId=241378725860618240, geocode='null', until='null', resultType='recent'}
By sniffing the network traffic I found that the code is requesting the following URL:
http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=%23hungergames&rpp=100&since_id=241378725860618240&result_type=recent&with_twitter_user_id=true&include_entities=true