Getting all tweets of a specific twitter account? - objective-c

Question

I just want to fetch all tweets of an specific twitter account. I want to use below url but don't know how we can get user_id or screen_name of a twitter account, whose tweets we want to fetch.
Resource URL http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.format Parameters Always specify either an user_id or screen_name when requesting a user timeline.
Does any one have any idea or source code or reference. Any help will be highly appreciable.
I am using following function for getting 200 tweets but it shows in NSLog
HTTP response status: 403 message
Function
- (IBAction)followOnTwitter:(id)sender
{
ACAccountStore *accountStore = [[ACAccountStore alloc] init];
ACAccountType *accountType = [accountStore accountTypeWithAccountTypeIdentifier:ACAccountTypeIdentifierTwitter];
[accountStore requestAccessToAccountsWithType:accountType withCompletionHandler:^(BOOL granted, NSError *error) {
if(granted) {
// Get the list of Twitter accounts.
NSArray *accountsArray = [accountStore accountsWithAccountType:accountType];
// For the sake of brevity, we'll assume there is only one Twitter account present.
// You would ideally ask the user which account they want to tweet from, if there is more than one Twitter account present.
if ([accountsArray count] > 0) {
// Grab the initial Twitter account to tweet from.
ACAccount *twitterAccount = [accountsArray objectAtIndex:0];
NSMutableDictionary *tempDict = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init];
[tempDict setValue:#"rohit40793982" forKey:#"screen_name"];
//[tempDict setValue:#"true" forKey:#"follow"];
// [tempDict setValue:#"683286" forKey:#"user_id "];
TWRequest *postRequest = [[TWRequest alloc] initWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:#"http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.format"]
parameters:tempDict
requestMethod:TWRequestMethodPOST];
[postRequest setAccount:twitterAccount];
[postRequest performRequestWithHandler:^(NSData *responseData, NSHTTPURLResponse *urlResponse, NSError *error) {
NSLog(#"%#",urlResponse);
tweets = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:responseData
options:kNilOptions
error:&error];
NSString *output = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"HTTP response status: %i", [urlResponse statusCode]];
NSLog(#"%#", output);
[self performSelectorOnMainThread:#selector(displayText:) withObject:output waitUntilDone:NO];
}];
}
}
}];
}
I am not receiving array of all tweets.

Answer 1

Your mistake, I think, is with this line
http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.format
the ".format" is the format you want the response. For example, if you want XML, use
https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.xml
or for JSON, use
https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json
You will also need to append the screen_name as a query. For example, to get all of my tweets as JSON, use
https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.xml?screen_name=edent

Answer 2

screen_name is basically, the account name. It's the name right after the '#'. Like WOW's screen_name is #Warcraft.
Oh and in fact the .format was the problem. You have to specify one of the 3: atom, json, or xml. (I think that getting the user timeline don't allow xml return, just read the API)
As I'm a Java programmer I'm afraid I can't help any further :/