Send Data from Labview-Program to Twitterfeed

[PhilGee]

Hi,

I would like do havbe a nice-to-handle way to look at some experimental data from home. As am a frequent "twitterer" I wondered whether I can send numerical values from Labview to a twitterfeed.  

[Marco_Brauner]

Hi,

LabVIEW 8.6 Features and Changes Dim hasPlayer, playerversion hasPlayer = false playerversion = 10 Do While playerversion > 0 On Error Resume Next hasPlayer = (IsObject(CreateObject("ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash." & playerversion))) If hasPlayer = true Then Exit Do playerversion = playerversion - 1 Loop is_FlashVersion = playerversion is_Flash = hasPlayer

LabVIEW 8.6 allows you to publish a VI as a Web service. Web services provide a standardized method for servers to deploy applications that any HTTP client can access. LabVIEW Web services support clients across most major platforms and programming languages and allow you to easily implement and deploy Web applications over a network using LabVIEW. You have to figure out in which way you can access such a web service

from twitterfeed. LabVIEW Web services are available only in the LabVIEW Full Development System and the LabVIEW Professional Development System.

regards

Marco Brauner NIG

[PhilGee]

Alas, I only hve Labview 7.1.... is there any possibility?

Thanks anyway for the quick answer.  

[Marco_Brauner]

Hi, with LV 7.1 you can send any kind of data as flattened strings to any TCP client with TCP/IP.

If twitterfeed can interface this way, there is no problem.

regards

Marco Brauner

[tbd]

Hi Phil.

      This sounds like fun!  While I have no experience with twittefeed, it sounds like you [just] need to satisfy the rules/expectations of their API.

Since LabVIEW 7.1 implements low-level TCP/IP functions, it should be possible to satisfy any interface requirements.

On the other hand, is that really necessary?

[From the API page] Notice the fourth bulleted item...

The Easiest Way to Play Around with the Twitter API

If your system has curl (and it should!), you’ve already got a great way to poke around the Twitter API. Here are some examples:

• Get the public timeline, unauthenticated: curl http://twitter.com/statuses/public_timeline.rss
• Get your friends timeline, authenticated: curl -u email:password http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.xml
• Just the headers, please: curl --head -u email:password http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.json
• Post a status update, authenticated: curl -u email:password -d status="your message here" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml 

This seems to be using a utility ('curl') to post/update via a command-line interface(?)  This could certainly be automated with LabVIEW - does it look promising?

Cheers.

[PhilGee]

Woah, that sounds pretty neat. 

I will try it as soon as I have the possibility (so hopefully next week).

Thanks! 

[PhilGee]

 Hi, I just want to tell that it works quite well with curl. Thanks a lot.

[tbd]

Thanks for the Kudos!