Grabeeter for Developers

Currently Grabeeter provides an API for exporting tweets of monitored users. This API is not restricted and can be used anonymously.

Export Tweets of a certain user

Just use this REST-style api as follows.

  • http://grabeeter.tugraz.at/api/tweets/{twitter-username}.xml
  • http://grabeeter.tugraz.at/api/tweets/{twitter-username}.json
In the above uri the string {twitter-username} represents the Twitter username of the author of the tweets. The Twitter username has to be monitored on Grabeeter otherwise you don't get returned relevant results.

Example

Suppose we want to access the tweets on Grabeeter of the Twitter user hmuehlburger in XML and JSON. In order to do so we just use the following uri:

Restricted API

Grabeeter also provides a restricted API which can be used to register new users. In order to use this API you have to request for an API token. This token enables you to use the restricted API.

Request for registering a new User on Grabeeter

In order to register a new user on Grabeeter using the API just make a request as follows:
  • http://grabeeter.tugraz.at/api/{your-token}/register/{twitter-username-to-register}

Have fun! :-)