Friday, December 25, 2009

A Simple Twitter Logger

[UPDATE! Look here for the OAuth version.]



Yes, using The Object Guy's Logging Framework it is incredibly easy to create a logger that will write to Twitter.

Here's a sample:

public class TwitterLogger : Logger
{  
  protected override bool DoLog(LogEntry aLogEntry)
  {
    // without this, you may receive a '417 Expectation Failed' error
    ServicePointManager.Expect100Continue = false;

    using (WebClient webClient = new WebClient())
    {
       webClient.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("[YOUR USER NAME]", "[YOUR PASSWORD]");

       var nvc = new NameValueCollection();
       nvc["status"] = aLogEntry.Message;

       webClient.UploadValues("http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml", nvc);
    }
    return true;
  }
}

Remember that Twitter may limit your status updates to 150 per hour and a thousand or so per day.

6 comments:

  1. Hey, that's neat.

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  2. I'm getting a 417 exception failed errorat WebClient.UpladValues(Uri address, String method, NameValueCollection data)

    Do you know any fixes?

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  3. Look carefully at the code I posted. You'll see that I address the 417 error.

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  4. Sorry about that, I totally missed it. Now I'm getting a 403 Forbidden error. Do you know what could be causing that?

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