t.co reverse

[Amaury]

Hi guys !

Thanks to new Mac OS Twitter client a lot of URL in tweets are now
convert to t.co witch is include in API response for user/
timeline ...

Is there any way to reverse t.co simply like we can do with bit.ly
API ?


Thanks

@Amaury

[Taylor Singletary]

Hi Amaury,

There currently isn't a distinct API available to de-reference t.co URLs (or directly produce them). However, most REST API timeline and status-bearing methods support the include_entities=true parameter which will include an additional set of fields, including "unrolled" t.co URLs. You can read more about entities here: http://dev.twitter.com/pages/tweet_entities

For example with this request:

GET http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/show.json?id=23150950055153664&include_entities=true

The tweet text was:

"text": "Emergent Behavior in Twitter Culture http://t.co/bcUPYxi via @adage",

And the entities node shows the de-referenced URL in entities/urls[0]/expanded_url:

"entities": {

  "places": [],

  "urls": [

    {

      "expanded_url": "http://adage.com/u/rby1pa",

      "url": "http://t.co/bcUPYxi",

      "indices": [

        37,

        56

      ],

      "display_url": "adage.com/u/rby1pa"

    }

  ],

  "hashtags": [],

  "user_mentions": [

    {

      "name": "Ad Age",

      "id_str": "12480582",

      "id": 12480582,

      "indices": [

        61,

        67

      ],

      "screen_name": "adage"

    }

  ]

}

Thanks,

Taylor

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