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Introduction:

twitcurl is a pure C++ library for twitter APIs. twitcurl uses cURL for handling HTTP requests and responses. twitcurl has been tested on Microsoft Windows, Ubuntu and Debian. In fact, it works just fine on any operating system that supports cURL.

OAuth

twitcurl supports OAuth authorization methods. Check twitterClient example code in trunk section to know about twitcurl OAuth flow. Also, check wiki page for more info: http://code.google.com/p/twitcurl/wiki/TwitcurlOAuthFlow

APIs

Currently twitcurl has wrappers for following twitter REST APIs:<br> <b>Timeline methods:</b><br> statuses/public_timeline<br> statuses/friends_timeline<br> statuses/user_timeline<br> statuses/mentions<br>

<b>Status methods:</b><br> statuses/show<br> statuses/update<br> statuses/destroy<br>

<b>User methods:</b><br> users/show<br> statuses/friends<br> statuses/followers<br>

<b>Direct Message methods:</b><br> direct_messages<br> direct_messages/sent<br> direct_messages/new<br> direct_messages/destroy<br>

<b>Friendship methods:</b><br> friendships/create<br> friendships/destroy<br> friendships/show<br>

<b>Social Graph methods:</b><br> friends/ids<br> followers/ids<br>

<b>Account methods:</b><br> account/rate_limit_status<br>

<b>Favorite methods:</b><br> favorites<br> favorites/create<br> favorites/destroy<br>

<b>Block methods:</b><br> blocks/create<br> blocks/destroy<br> blocks/list<br> blocks/ids<br>

<b>Saved Search methods:</b><br> saved_searches<br> saved_searches/show<br> saved_searches/create<br> saved_searches/destroy<br>

<b>Trends methods:</b><br> trends<br> trends/current<br> trends/daily<br> trends/weekly<br> trends/available<br>

<h3>Source:</h3> <ul><li>twitcurl source is available in the repository in "Source" tab.<br> </li><li>Includes Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 and 2008 workspace for building on Windows; and Makefile for building on UNIX/Linux distroes.<br> </li><li>Use SVN or tools like TortoiseSVN (<a href='http://tortoisesvn.net/'>http://tortoisesvn.net/</a>) to check-out and download files.</li></ul> <h3>Help needed?</h3> See wiki section for more info on building and using twitcurl library.<br> <a href='http://code.google.com/p/twitcurl/wiki/WikiHowToUseTwitcurlLibrary'>http://code.google.com/p/twitcurl/wiki/WikiHowToUseTwitcurlLibrary</a> <h3>Note:</h3> <ul><li>twitcurl returns JSON responses from twitter.com as it is. You need to have a JSON parser to parse the responses.<br> </li><li>twitcurl uses HMAC_SHA1 from <a href='http://www.codeproject.com/KB/recipes/HMACSHA1class.aspx'>http://www.codeproject.com/KB/recipes/HMACSHA1class.aspx</a> </li><li>twitcurl uses base64 from <a href='http://www.adp-gmbh.ch/cpp/common/base64.html'>http://www.adp-gmbh.ch/cpp/common/base64.html</a> </li><li>Check out <a href='http://www.json.org/'>http://www.json.org/</a> for C/C++ parsers.</li></ul> <h3>Example:</h3> An example twitter client program using twitcurl as a static library is available in the "Downloads" section.<br> The Makefile in twitterClient is supposed to run under sudo, and the file is tested under Ubuntu 12.04.<br> <br> <br> <h3>Info:</h3> <ul><li>More info on cURL can be found here: <a href='http://curl.haxx.se/'>http://curl.haxx.se/</a> </li><li>More info on twitter REST APIs can be found here: <a href='http://apiwiki.twitter.com/w/page/22554679/Twitter-API-Documentation'>http://apiwiki.twitter.com/w/page/22554679/Twitter-API-Documentation</a> </li><li>More info on twitter OAuth authorization can be found here:<br> <ul><li><a href='http://dev.twitter.com/auth'>http://dev.twitter.com/auth</a> </li><li><a href='http://www.jaanuskase.com/en/2010/01/understanding_the_guts_of_twit.html'>http://www.jaanuskase.com/en/2010/01/understanding_the_guts_of_twit.html</a> </li><li><a href='http://codebrook.wordpress.com/2010/07/08/twitter-oauth-in-cpp-for-win32/'>http://codebrook.wordpress.com/2010/07/08/twitter-oauth-in-cpp-for-win32/</a> </li></ul></li><li>Building cURL static library with SSL on Windows: <a href='http://swatrant.blogspot.in/2013/06/how-to-build-curl-static-library-with.html'>http://swatrant.blogspot.in/2013/06/how-to-build-curl-static-library-with.html</a>