I am looking for a way to get the list of board names from a given username. I know pinterest already provides rss for all the pins from a given user and for all the pins from a given pinboard.
All Pins from a given user: pinterest.com/[user]/feed.rss
All pins from a given user and board: pinterest.com/[user]/[board-name]/rss
Now I need a way to get the list of boards from a given user, not the pins. I know there is a way to do it because -> pinreach.com does it.
Thank you in advance :)
RSS feed only has 25 pins. To get boards or all the pins, you have to crawl the site. There is no way around it.
Here is another Unofficial API with Documentation for Pintrest
http://pinterestapi.co.uk/
Hey you can check out this unofficial Pinterest API, you can search boards by username - https://www.mashape.com/ismaelc/pinterest-1#endpoint-Show-User-Boards
Sample result below:
{
"body": [
{
"name": "Books Worth Reading",
"href": "http://pinterest.com/ismael/books-worth-reading/",
"num_of_pins": 6,
"cover_src": "http://media-cache-ec7.pinterest.com/222x/0c/31/22/0c3122735319edbf9b8aae28c9b22f86.jpg",
"thumbs_src": [
"http://media-cache-ec6.pinterest.com/75x75/2a/2d/7b/2a2d7b6f20f7518269b310b25d876810.jpg",
"http://media-cache-ec4.pinterest.com/75x75/e6/05/05/e6050519c5686ae27ad649500965f39c.jpg",
"http://media-cache-ec5.pinterest.com/75x75/07/64/c3/0764c392bae2b073c4c862a6503f09d6.jpg",
"http://media-cache-ec4.pinterest.com/75x75/61/35/0a/61350ab6eb4bb0b0d09f7c191bf30d55.jpg"
]
},
{
"name": "My Style",
"href": "http://pinterest.com/ismael/my-style/",
"num_of_pins": 0,
"cover_src": false,
"thumbs_src": false
},
{
"name": "For the Home",
"href": "http://pinterest.com/ismael/for-the-home/",
"num_of_pins": 0,
"cover_src": false,
"thumbs_src": false
},
{
"name": "Favorite Places & Spaces",
"href": "http://pinterest.com/ismael/favorite-places-spaces/",
"num_of_pins": 0,
"cover_src": false,
"thumbs_src": false
}
],
"meta": {
"count": 4
}
}
You can do this now using the Official Pinterest API using the hook:
https://api.pinterest.com/v1/me/boards/?access_token=********&fields=id%2Cname%2Curl
First, you will need to authenticate and get an acce3ss token.
The getting started doc do a good job at explaining how. https://developers.pinterest.com/docs/api/overview/
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Video-sharing websites such as Youtube has a endpoint for video thumbnails
Example: http://img.youtube.com/vi/youtube_id/default.jpg
where youtube_id = the id of the video
So I can just do
<img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/youtube_id/default.jpg">
with no problem
Does twitch have something like this as well?
Update 2018
Twitch requires you to use its API so you can get access to video thumbnails. Apparently, this is because the URL of the thumbnails may change
Here is a simple guide how to get access to a twitch video thumbnail
You have to get access to Twitch dev API - to do this you need to register an account at https://glass.twitch.tv
After registering an account you must then create an App from your twitch dev dashboard
After creating the App, you will be given a Client ID to be used for that app - note that the app is the one which will be using the twitch API (for example, your website)
You can now pass the client_id as a query string parameter to https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/videos/106400740?client_id=xxxxxxx where 106400740 is the video id (note that 'kraken' here is constant - not sure of the origin behind its name) - note that the request will return a JSON object which contains an error message if you do not include a client_id
The request will return a JSON object which looks something like:
{
"title": "Door 5 vs Tilted Gamers",
"description": "COOL Games: Killing Spree first match # Mineski. Grove, Los Ba\u00f1os",
"description_html": "COOL Games: Killing Spree first match # Mineski. Grove, Los Ba\u00f1os<br>",
"broadcast_id": 1,
"broadcast_type": "upload",
"status": "recorded",
"language": "en",
"tag_list": "",
"views": 4,
"created_at": "2017-11-08T03:13:12Z",
"published_at": "2017-11-08T04:33:37Z",
"url": "https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/videos\/188543310",
"_id": "v188543310",
"recorded_at": "2017-11-08T03:13:12Z",
"game": "Dota 2",
"length": 2436,
"preview": "https:\/\/static-cdn.jtvnw.net\/s3_vods\/esportsdotcool\/188543310\/3534ab8c-bf7d-4c8a-b502-c406825bf75f\/thumb\/index-0000000000-320x240.jpg",
"animated_preview_url": "https:\/\/vod-storyboards.twitch.tv\/esportsdotcool\/188543310\/3534ab8c-bf7d-4c8a-b502-c406825bf75f\/storyboards\/188543310-strip-0.jpg",
"thumbnails": [
{
"type": "generated",
"url": "https:\/\/static-cdn.jtvnw.net\/s3_vods\/esportsdotcool\/188543310\/3534ab8c-bf7d-4c8a-b502-c406825bf75f\/thumb\/index-0000000000-320x240.jpg"
},
{
"type": "generated",
"url": "https:\/\/static-cdn.jtvnw.net\/s3_vods\/esportsdotcool\/188543310\/3534ab8c-bf7d-4c8a-b502-c406825bf75f\/thumb\/index-0000000006-320x240.jpg"
},
{
"type": "generated",
"url": "https:\/\/static-cdn.jtvnw.net\/s3_vods\/esportsdotcool\/188543310\/3534ab8c-bf7d-4c8a-b502-c406825bf75f\/thumb\/index-0000000012-320x240.jpg"
},
{
"type": "generated",
"url": "https:\/\/static-cdn.jtvnw.net\/s3_vods\/esportsdotcool\/188543310\/3534ab8c-bf7d-4c8a-b502-c406825bf75f\/thumb\/index-0000000018-320x240.jpg"
}
],
"fps": {
"144p30": 29.999544341896,
"360p30": 29.999544341896,
"480p30": 29.999544341896
},
"resolutions": {
"144p30": "256x144",
"360p30": "640x360",
"480p30": "852x480"
},
"channel": {
"name": "esportsdotcool",
"display_name": "esportsdotcool"
},
"_links": {
"self": "https:\/\/api.twitch.tv\/kraken\/videos\/v188543310",
"channel": "https:\/\/api.twitch.tv\/kraken\/channels\/esportsdotcool"
}
}
Under the thumbnails array you can find the url to the video.
PS: As you can see, the thumbnails array has length of 4 - at this point I think this is because of the different sizes of the image that the author of the video can put up
I'm new to programming Alexa skills, especially with the Echo Show. I am trying to change the background image of the skill card from the default dark grey to something else. I know there has to be a way to do this because when I say, "Alexa, tell me a joke." that skill's background is red. And when I say, "Alexa, tell me about LeBron James." Alexa changes the background to LeBron James and the text auto scrolls. Any help on this would be great.
You can indeed change the background of an Alexa Show skill. Unfortunately, at this time Amazon does not offer a bunch of styling functionality beyond that for the Show skills.
The display interface reference is the documentation that you should read. It will give you an understanding of how all your calls and responses will be sent/received as JSON objects. In order to change the background you must choose one of the few template options they have available and add the background key and value to your JSON response structure.
For example, check out the following response structure you should send back from your AWS lambda function. It renders BodyTemplate2 which displays an image on the side of the screen with text on the other side. (This was taken from the display interface reference). Look at the key, "backgroundImage" and the following value.
{
"type": "Display.RenderTemplate",
"template": {
"type": "BodyTemplate2",
"token": "A2079",
"backButton": "VISIBLE",
"backgroundImage": {
"contentDescription": "Textured grey background",
"sources": [
{
"url": "https://www.example.com/background-image1.png"
}
],
"title": "My Favorite Car",
"image": {
"contentDescription": "My favorite car",
"sources": [
{
"url": "https://www.example.com/my-favorite-car.png"
}
]
},
"textContent": {
"primaryText": {
"text": "See my favorite car",
"type": "PlainText"
},
"secondaryText": {
"text": "Custom-painted",
"type": "PlainText"
},
"tertiaryText": {
"text": "By me!",
"type": "PlainText"
}
}
}
}
}
I'm trying to use the /4.0/legacyvm3/teams/{team}/events endpoint to create an event. I'm running into some trouble with spaces.
I used the /4.0/legacyvm3/teams/{team}/venues endpoint to get a list of venues. I chose one to include in the spaces section and posted this:
{
"name": "Event via API Test 04",
"category": "athletic event",
"public": true,
"attendee_management": true,
"start_time": "2017-04-05T16:13:54.217Z",
"end_time": "2017-04-05T16:13:54.217Z",
"uses_metric": false,
"venue_mapper_version": 0,
"spaces": [
{
"venue_id": 128379,
"name": "Snurrrggggg"
}
]
}
The endpoint returns a 400 code and this error:
{
"code": 400,
"message": "Cannot read property 'toLowerCase' of undefined"
}
I tried including the wizard section, but each time it would return this error:
{
"message": "Access Denied to this feature"
}
After some experimentation, this body succeeded:
{
"name": "Event via API Test 03",
"category": "athletic event",
"public": true,
"attendee_management": true,
"start_time": "2017-04-05T16:13:54.217Z",
"end_time": "2017-04-05T16:13:54.217Z",
"uses_metric": false,
"venue_mapper_version": 0,
"spaces": [
{
"name": "Fake News Room"
}
]
}
But the application itself would not display the diagram, and the newly created room did not show up in my list of venues. Perhaps it did not assign permissions to it?
In any case, I don't actually want to create a new venue/space. I want to pass in an existing venue/space. How do I do that?
The short answer is to create a working diagram in 4.0 you will need to POST some data to the /4.0/diagrams endpoint.
The room you create doesn't map to the same concept as venues. When you create an event as you did, it creates a new space entity. The spaces endpoints can return information on those.
Otherwise I must do querySelector on the page content to find if there is a some kind of padlock and by try and error check what (id or class) is unique to that icon.
Other source to find is this info is to go on information page by adding $action=info to the url params. But then another problem comes in that the protection status is written in that's particular wiki language.
Using the API is the right way to do it, but you need to use action=query. The padlocks icons are inconsistent across wikis, and most wikis probably don't even have them.
If you use the right parameters for your API query, you should be getting the results you're looking for.
Example for the English Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=info&format=json&inprop=protection&titles=Elton%20John gives you this result:
{
"batchcomplete": "",
"query": {
"pages": {
"5052197": {
"pageid": 5052197,
"ns": 0,
"title": "Elton John",
"contentmodel": "wikitext",
"pagelanguage": "en",
"touched": "2015-10-02T03:49:24Z",
"lastrevid": 683730854,
"length": 115931,
"protection": [
{
"type": "edit",
"level": "autoconfirmed",
"expiry": "infinity"
},
{
"type": "move",
"level": "sysop",
"expiry": "infinity"
}
],
"restrictiontypes": [
"edit",
"move"
]
}
}
}
}
Here the protection array tells you that only sysops can move the page, and only autoconfirmed users can edit it.
If you make a similar query on another wiki, say the French Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=info&format=json&inprop=protection&titles=Malia%20Obama , you get this in response (trimmed):
"protection": [
{
"type": "edit",
"level": "sysop",
"expiry": "infinity"
},
{
"type": "move",
"level": "sysop",
"expiry": "infinity"
}
],
"restrictiontypes": [
"edit",
"move"
]
In this case, sysops are the only one who can move and edit the page.
I am working on a project where the conversation of a twitter user needs to be retrieved. For example i want to get all the replies of this tweet of BBC World Service. Using the REST API v1.1 i can get the timeline (tweet, re-tweet) of a twitter user. But i did not find any documentation/working work around on fetching replies of a specific tweet. Is there any work around on getting the replies of a specific tweet at all?
There is no API call to get replies to a specific tweet. You can, however, cheat!
Using the Search API you can construct a search query which is:
In reply to #bbcworldservice.
Occurred after the tweet was posted.
Optionally, before a specific date / time.
So, in this case, something like
https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json?
q=%23bbcworldservice&
since_id=489366839953489920&
count=100
You'll get a list of Tweets (up to 100). You will then need to search them for in_reply_to_status_id_str and see if it matches the status you're looking for.
The TwitterAPI v2 allows you to retrieve the entire conversation thread using just the conversation_id in search. (In v1.1 you had to write custom code to build it)
Replies to a given Tweet, as well as replies to those replies, are all included in the conversation stemming from the single original Tweet. Regardless of how many reply threads result, they will all share a common conversation_id to the original Tweet that sparked the conversation. Using the Twitter API v2, you have the ability to retrieve and reconstruct an entire conversation thread, so that you can better understand what is being said, and how conversations and ideas evolve.
Example:
curl --request GET \
--url 'https://api.twitter.com/2/tweets?ids=1225917697675886593&tweet.fields=author_id,conversation_id,created_at,in_reply_to_user_id,referenced_tweets&expansions=author_id,in_reply_to_user_id,referenced_tweets.id&user.fields=name,username' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer $BEARER_TOKEN'
Response will be like
{
"data": [
{
"id": "1225917697675886593",
"text": "#TwitterEng",
"created_at": "2020-02-07T23:02:10.000Z",
"author_id": "2244994945",
"in_reply_to_user_id": "6844292",
"conversation_id": "1225912275971657728",
"referenced_tweets": [
{
"type": "quoted",
"id": "1200517737669378053"
},
{
"type": "replied_to",
"id": "1225912275971657728"
}
]
}
],
"includes": {
"users": [
{
"username": "TwitterDev",
"name": "Twitter Dev",
"id": "2244994945"
},
{
"username": "TwitterEng",
"name": "Twitter Engineering",
"id": "6844292"
}
],
"tweets": [
{
"id": "1200517737669378053",
"text": "|￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣|\n don't push \n to prod on \n Fridays \n|＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿| \n(\\__/) ||\n(•ㅅ•) ||\n/ づ",
"created_at": "2019-11-29T20:51:47.000Z",
"author_id": "2244994945",
"conversation_id": "1200517737669378053"
},
{
"id": "1225912275971657728",
"text": "Note to self: Don't deploy on Fridays",
"created_at": "2020-02-07T22:40:37.000Z",
"author_id": "6844292",
"conversation_id": "1225912275971657728"
}
]
}
}
For more info checkout twitter API Conversation