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Asked: 2026-05-28T08:15:07+00:00

I want to make a request to the twitter api. This is the example

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I want to make a request to the twitter api. This is the example provided in the documentation (https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1/get/search):

GET:

http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=blue%20angels&rpp=5&include_entities=true&result_type=mixed

There is no example request on the documentation. How would the request for this url be including an alert with data response?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Look if this helps, I made an example for you:

    Basically the HTML code contains 2 inputs. one for the button and one for the query string.

    <html>
<head>
    <title>example</title>
</head>
<body>
   <div style="padding: 20px;">
        <input id="query" type="text" value="blue angels" />
        <input id="submit" type="button" value="Search" />
    </div>
    <div id="tweets" style="padding: 20px;">
        Tweets will go here.
    </div>
</body>
</html>

    After pressing the search button, you’ll send a request to twitter asking for 5 results (rpp) containing the query string.

    Here’s the javascript for this page:

    function searchTwitter(query) {
    $.ajax({
        url: 'http://search.twitter.com/search.json?' + jQuery.param(query),
        dataType: 'jsonp',
        success: function(data) {
            var tweets = $('#tweets');
            tweets.html('');
            for (res in data['results']) {
                tweets.append('<div>' + data['results'][res]['from_user'] + ' wrote: <p>' + data['results'][res]['text'] + '</p></div><br />');
        }
        }
    });
}

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('#submit').click(function() {
        var params = {
            q: $('#query').val(),
            rpp: 5
        };
        // alert(jQuery.param(params));
        searchTwitter(params);
    });
});

    The trick is the jQuery.param() function that you’ll pass the params for the search/request

    See it running here:

    http://jsfiddle.net/73L4c/6/

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