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6 Net::Twitter::Role::AutoCursor - Help transition to cursor based access
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13 use Net::Twitter;
14 my $nt = Net::Twitter->new(
15 traits => [qw/AutoCursor API::RESTv1_1 RetryOnError OAuth/],
16 # additional ags...
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19 # Get friends_ids or followers_ids without worrying about cursors
20 my $ids = $nt->followers_ids;
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22 my $nt = Net::Twitter->new(
23 traits => [
24 qw/API::RESTv1_1 RetryOnError OAuth/
25 AutoCursor => { max_calls => 32 },
26 AutoCursor => {
27 max_calls => 4,
28 force_cursor => 1,
29 array_accessor => 'users',
30 methods => [qw/friends followers/],
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33 # additional args
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36 # works with any Twitter call that takes a cursor parameter
37 my $friends = $nt->friends;
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40 On 25-Mar-2011, Twitter announced a change to "friends_ids" and
41 "followers_ids" API methods:
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43 [Soon] followers/ids and friends/ids is being updated to set the cursor to -1
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47 This will break a lot of existing code. The "AutoCursor" trait was
48 created to help users transition to cursor based access for these
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51 With default parameters, the "AutoCursor" trait attempts a non-cursored
52 call for "friends_ids" and "followers_ids". If it detects a cursored
53 response from Twitter, it continues to call the underlying Twitter API
54 method, with the next cursor, until it has received all results or 16
55 calls have been made (yielding 80,000 results). It returns an ARRAY
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58 If the "cursor" parameter is passed to "friends_ids" or
59 "followers_ids", "Net::Twitter" assumes the user is handling cursoring
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62 The "AutoCursor" trait is parameterized, allowing it to work with any
63 Twitter API method that expects cursors, returning combined results for
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66 "AutoCursor" can be applied multiple times to handle different sets of
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71 An integer specifying the maximum number of API calls to make.
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74 "max_calls" can be overridden on a per-call basis by passing a
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78 If true, when the caller does not provide a "cursor" parameter,
79 "AutoCursor" will use up to "max_calls" cursored calls rather than
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82 array_accessor
83 The name of the HASH key used to access the ARRAY ref of results in
84 the data structure returned by Twitter. Default is "ids".
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87 A reference to an ARRAY containing the names of Twitter API methods
88 to which "AutoCursor" will be applied.
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91 Synthetic parameter "-max_calls" can be passed for individual method
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94 $r = $nt->followers_ids({ -max_calls => 200 }); # get up to 1 million ids
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96 Synthetic parameter "-force_cursor" can be passed to override the
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100 Marc Mims <marc@questright.com>
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103 Copyright (c) 2016 Marc Mims
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106 This library is free software and may be distributed under the same
107 terms as perl itself.
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