Streamer - .Net / Unity access to the Twitter Streaming API

by Eddie Cameron (@eddiecameron / www.grapefruitgames.com)

A simple API to let your .Net or Unity apps access the deluge of information available on the live Twitter stream. Simplify connection, JSON parsing and OAuth handling.

To use:

• create a new TwitterAccess object

• Either fill out OAuth application/access tokens, or provide user/password with BasicAuthUserPassword()

• Add at least one query parameter with AddQueryParameter()

• Call Connect()

• As tweets come in, they will be parsed and placed in the "tweets" queue

• see the example main.cs or go to http://grapefruitgames.com/2012/02/25/streamer-net-unity-access-to-the-twitter-streaming-api/ for more info

v0.9 - Initial public release

• Set up location and track query parameters on the /filter method (streaming only)
• Has basic auth, or, if you set up your own access tokens, OAuth
• Parses status, username, location and hashtags from the live feed. May ignore tweets with unusual characters in the status.

v1.0 - Generally useable release

• Full support for oAuth via passcode authorisation. Users can now use their own accounts in your app
• Added the follow query parameter, for filtering all tweets in reply/RTing a certain person
• Fixed the JSON parser to correctly unescape special characters & unicode
• Some other minor reliability/error reporting fixes

TODO:

• add more query options
• add Twitter REST API access (post tweets, access a users timeline, etc)
• places support (currently only supports coordinates)