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Parse and transform tweets using XQuery 3.1's JSON support
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parse-tweets.xq
xquery version "3.1";
(: parse tweets using XQuery 3.1's JSON support
: see http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions-31/#json
: sample JSON from https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/statuses/user_timeline
:)
let $json := json-doc('/db/user_timeline.json')
let $tweets := $json?*
return
<tweets>{
for $tweet in $tweets
let $id := $tweet?id_str
let $created := $tweet?created_at
let $text := $tweet?text
let $user-id := $tweet?user?screen_name
let $url := concat('https://twitter.com/', $user-id, '/statuses/', $id)
return
<tweet>
<id>{$id}</id>
<created>{$created}</created>
<text>{$text}</text>
<user-id>{$user-id}</user-id>
<url>{$url}</url>
</tweet>
}</tweets>
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parse-tweets_results.xml
<!-- results of parse-tweets.xq when using sample JSON from https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/statuses/user_timeline -->
<tweets>
<tweet>
<id>240859602684612608</id>
<created>Wed Aug 29 17:12:58 +0000 2012</created>
<text>Introducing the Twitter Certified Products Program: https://t.co/MjJ8xAnT</text>
<user-id>twitterapi</user-id>
<url>https://twitter.com/twitterapi/statuses/240859602684612608</url>
</tweet>
<tweet>
<id>239413543487819778</id>
<created>Sat Aug 25 17:26:51 +0000 2012</created>
<text>We are working to resolve issues with application management &amp; logging in to the dev portal: https://t.co/p5bOzH0k ^TS</text>
<user-id>twitterapi</user-id>
<url>https://twitter.com/twitterapi/statuses/239413543487819778</url>
</tweet>
</tweets>
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serialize-tweets.xq
xquery version "3.1";
(: transform JSON with XQuery :)
import module namespace ju = "http://joewiz.org/ns/xquery/json-util" at "/db/json-util.xqm";
(: see https://gist.github.com/joewiz/d986da715facaad633db for this function :)
let $json := json-doc('/db/user_timeline.json')
let $tweets := $json?*
let $new-tweets :=
array {
for $tweet in $tweets
let $id := $tweet?id_str
let $created := $tweet?created_at
let $text := $tweet?text
let $user-id := $tweet?user?screen_name
let $url := concat('https://twitter.com/', $user-id, '/statuses/', $id)
return
map {
'id_str': $id,
'created_at': $created,
'user': map {
'screen_name': $user-id
},
'url': $url
}
}
return
ju:serialize-json($new-tweets)
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serialize-tweets_results.json
[
{
"created_at": "Wed Aug 29 17:12:58 +0000 2012",
"user": {"screen_name": "twitterapi"},
"id_str": "240859602684612608",
"url": "https://twitter.com/twitterapi/statuses/240859602684612608"
},
{
"created_at": "Sat Aug 25 17:26:51 +0000 2012",
"user": {"screen_name": "twitterapi"},
"id_str": "239413543487819778",
"url": "https://twitter.com/twitterapi/statuses/239413543487819778"
}
]
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user_timeline.json
[
{
"coordinates": null,
"favorited": false,
"truncated": false,
"created_at": "Wed Aug 29 17:12:58 +0000 2012",
"id_str": "240859602684612608",
"entities": {
"urls": [{
"expanded_url": "https://dev.twitter.com/blog/twitter-certified-products",
"url": "https://t.co/MjJ8xAnT",
"indices": [
52,
73
],
"display_url": "dev.twitter.com/blog/twitter-c\u2026"
}],
"hashtags": [],
"user_mentions": []
},
"in_reply_to_user_id_str": null,
"contributors": null,
"text": "Introducing the Twitter Certified Products Program: https://t.co/MjJ8xAnT",
"retweet_count": 121,
"in_reply_to_status_id_str": null,
"id": 240859602684612608,
"geo": null,
"retweeted": false,
"possibly_sensitive": false,
"in_reply_to_user_id": null,
"place": null,
"user": {
"profile_sidebar_fill_color": "DDEEF6",
"profile_sidebar_border_color": "C0DEED",
"profile_background_tile": false,
"name": "Twitter API",
"profile_image_url": "http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/2284174872/7df3h38zabcvjylnyfe3_normal.png",
"created_at": "Wed May 23 06:01:13 +0000 2007",
"location": "San Francisco, CA",
"follow_request_sent": false,
"profile_link_color": "0084B4",
"is_translator": false,
"id_str": "6253282",
"entities": {
"url": {"urls": [{
"expanded_url": null,
"url": "http://dev.twitter.com",
"indices": [
0,
22
]
}]},
"description": {"urls": []}
},
"default_profile": true,
"contributors_enabled": true,
"favourites_count": 24,
"url": "http://dev.twitter.com",
"profile_image_url_https": "https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/2284174872/7df3h38zabcvjylnyfe3_normal.png",
"utc_offset": -28800,
"id": 6253282,
"profile_use_background_image": true,
"listed_count": 10775,
"profile_text_color": "333333",
"lang": "en",
"followers_count": 1212864,
"protected": false,
"notifications": null,
"profile_background_image_url_https": "https://si0.twimg.com/images/themes/theme1/bg.png",
"profile_background_color": "C0DEED",
"verified": true,
"geo_enabled": true,
"time_zone": "Pacific Time (US & Canada)",
"description": "The Real Twitter API. I tweet about API changes, service issues and happily answer questions about Twitter and our API. Don't get an answer? It's on my website.",
"default_profile_image": false,
"profile_background_image_url": "http://a0.twimg.com/images/themes/theme1/bg.png",
"statuses_count": 3333,
"friends_count": 31,
"following": null,
"show_all_inline_media": false,
"screen_name": "twitterapi"
},
"in_reply_to_screen_name": null,
"source": "<a href=\"//sites.google.com/site/yorufukurou/\" rel=\"nofollow\">YoruFukurou<\/a>",
"in_reply_to_status_id": null
},
{
"coordinates": null,
"favorited": false,
"truncated": false,
"created_at": "Sat Aug 25 17:26:51 +0000 2012",
"id_str": "239413543487819778",
"entities": {
"urls": [{
"expanded_url": "https://dev.twitter.com/issues/485",
"url": "https://t.co/p5bOzH0k",
"indices": [
97,
118
],
"display_url": "dev.twitter.com/issues/485"
}],
"hashtags": [],
"user_mentions": []
},
"in_reply_to_user_id_str": null,
"contributors": null,
"text": "We are working to resolve issues with application management & logging in to the dev portal: https://t.co/p5bOzH0k ^TS",
"retweet_count": 105,
"in_reply_to_status_id_str": null,
"id": 239413543487819778,
"geo": null,
"retweeted": false,
"possibly_sensitive": false,
"in_reply_to_user_id": null,
"place": null,
"user": {
"profile_sidebar_fill_color": "DDEEF6",
"profile_sidebar_border_color": "C0DEED",
"profile_background_tile": false,
"name": "Twitter API",
"profile_image_url": "http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/2284174872/7df3h38zabcvjylnyfe3_normal.png",
"created_at": "Wed May 23 06:01:13 +0000 2007",
"location": "San Francisco, CA",
"follow_request_sent": false,
"profile_link_color": "0084B4",
"is_translator": false,
"id_str": "6253282",
"entities": {
"url": {"urls": [{
"expanded_url": null,
"url": "http://dev.twitter.com",
"indices": [
0,
22
]
}]},
"description": {"urls": []}
},
"default_profile": true,
"contributors_enabled": true,
"favourites_count": 24,
"url": "http://dev.twitter.com",
"profile_image_url_https": "https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/2284174872/7df3h38zabcvjylnyfe3_normal.png",
"utc_offset": -28800,
"id": 6253282,
"profile_use_background_image": true,
"listed_count": 10775,
"profile_text_color": "333333",
"lang": "en",
"followers_count": 1212864,
"protected": false,
"notifications": null,
"profile_background_image_url_https": "https://si0.twimg.com/images/themes/theme1/bg.png",
"profile_background_color": "C0DEED",
"verified": true,
"geo_enabled": true,
"time_zone": "Pacific Time (US & Canada)",
"description": "The Real Twitter API. I tweet about API changes, service issues and happily answer questions about Twitter and our API. Don't get an answer? It's on my website.",
"default_profile_image": false,
"profile_background_image_url": "http://a0.twimg.com/images/themes/theme1/bg.png",
"statuses_count": 3333,
"friends_count": 31,
"following": null,
"show_all_inline_media": false,
"screen_name": "twitterapi"
},
"in_reply_to_screen_name": null,
"source": "<a href=\"//sites.google.com/site/yorufukurou/\" rel=\"nofollow\">YoruFukurou<\/a>",
"in_reply_to_status_id": null
}
]
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