twitter-soup.c

// simple async call using libsoup on twitter.com
// author: Yoan Blanc
// compiled using: gcc twitter.c `pkg-config --cflags libsoup-2.4` `pkg-config --libs libsoup-2.4`

#include <stdio.h>
#include <glib-object.h>
#include <libsoup/soup.h>

static GMainLoop *main_loop = NULL;

void callback (SoupSession *session, SoupMessage *message, gpointer user_data) {
    printf("called");
    gchar *buffer = g_strndup(message->response_body->data,
                              message->response_body->length);

    printf("%s\n", buffer);
    printf("length: %d\n", message->response_body->length);

    g_main_loop_quit(main_loop);
}

int main () {
    g_type_init();
    g_thread_init(NULL);

    SoupSession *session = soup_session_async_new();
    SoupMessage *message = soup_message_new("GET", "http://twitter.com/statuses/public_timeline.xml");

    soup_session_queue_message(session, message, callback, NULL);

    main_loop = g_main_loop_new(NULL, FALSE);
    
    g_main_loop_run(main_loop);
    g_main_loop_unref(main_loop);

    return 1;
}

twitter-soup.js

#!/usr/bin/env seed
// Getting the twitter feed using Seed (via Soup)

Seed.import_namespace("GLib");
Seed.import_namespace("Soup");

var base_uri = "http://twitter.com/";
var user = "xxxx";
var password = "xxxx";

function client_auth(session, message, auth, retrying, data) {
    Seed.print("authenticate as: "+user);
    auth.authenticate(user, password);
}

function callback(session, message) {
    Seed.print("status: "+message.status_code);
    Seed.print("data: "+message.response_body.data);
    Seed.print("length: "+message.response_body.length);
    GLib.main_loop_quit(main);
}

var session = new Soup.SessionAsync();
var message = new Soup.Message.c_new("GET", base_uri + "statuses/public_timeline.xml");
//var message = new Soup.Message.c_new("GET", base_uri + "statuses/friends_timeline.xml");

session.signal.authenticate.connect(client_auth);
session.queue_message(message, callback);

var main = GLib.main_loop_new(null, false);
GLib.main_loop_run(main);
GLib.main_loop_unref(main);