/// <summary>
/// Get the latest tweets from twitter for the specified username.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="username"></param>
/// <param name="maxEntries"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
public static IList <Tweet> GetFeed(string username, int maxEntries)
{
string url = string.Format("http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/{0}.rss", HttpUtility.UrlEncode(username));
IList <Tweet> tweets = null;
try
{
var feed = FeedHelper.LoadUrl(url);
tweets = new List <Tweet>();
foreach (var item in feed.Items)
{
var tweet = new Tweet()
{
Id = item.Id,
User = item.Contributors.IsNullOrEmpty() ? string.Empty : item.Contributors[0].Name,
Text = item.Title.Text,
Content = item.Title.Text,
Published = feed.LastUpdatedTime.DateTime,
Link = item.Links.IsNullOrEmpty() ? string.Empty : item.Links[0].Uri.OriginalString,
Author = item.Authors.IsNullOrEmpty() ? string.Empty : item.Authors[0].Name
};
tweets.Add(tweet);
if (tweets.Count == maxEntries)
{
break;
}
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Logging.Logger.Error("Unable to get tweets for user : " + username, ex);
tweets = new List <Tweet>();
}
return(tweets);
}