Question

I am attempting to access the twitter streaming api, however I want to limit the number of replies I get, I tried using the count parameter:

https://user:[e-mail]/1/statuses/sample.json?count=100

But I got the error:

Parameter count not allowed in role statusSpritzer 

Can anyone explain why this isn’t allowed?

The code I am trying to use is this:

$url = "https://user:[e-mail]/1/statuses/sample.json";
$fp = fopen($url,"r");

while($data = fgets($fp)){
    $decode = json_decode($data);               
    for($i = 0; $i < count($decode); $i++){         
        echo $decode->$i;
    }       
}

But takes too long to process due to the number of tweets returned, so I am trying to limit the number..

Answer 1

Try changing sample.json to user_timeline.json

https://user:[e-mail]/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?count=100

More info can be found here:
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1/get/statuses/user_timeline

EDIT: It looks like this is not allowed on the Spritzer access level. Count can only be used on the Gardenhose access level.

QUOTE:

Note that the count parameter is not allowed elsewhere, including track, sample and on the default access role.

from https://dev.twitter.com/docs/streaming-api/methods#count

So while statuses/sample allows the count parameter, it does not allow it with the default access level of Spritzer.