Question

Is it possible to retrieve a users tweets using a jQuery AJAX request? I have the following code but I’m getting the same origin error.

function GetTweets(handle) {
    $.ajax({
        url: "https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.xml?screen_name=wesleyskeen"
    }).success(function (tweets) { 
        console.log(tweets) 
    });
}

Even when I add

dataType: "jsonp"

I get a different error

Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token <

The results are actually returned, but they are returned in XML as it seems to be giving the script a problem.

Any help on this would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

You are requesting XML. Uso the json url instead:

https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=wesleyskeen

(Simply change xml in your url path to json)