Twitter and Facebook access

[MrTAToad]

Would be nice to be able to post to Twitter. I presume Facebook users would also like to be able to do the same to that too.

[SparrowhawkMMU]

Hi MrTAToad ,

You probably already know this but just in case:

You can post to services like Twitter etc using their developer APIs. Twitter for example offers RESTful endpoints - the docs are here: https://dev.twitter.com/rest/public

Currently however, SpiderBasic's HTTPRequest() command only supports GET and POST which makes it unsuitable for RESTful services . Setting custom headers is not available either which makes SB unsuitable for , eg , JSON RPC calls unless you control the API yourself and can allow through requests with invalid headers from known origins, as I currently do with our in-house systems.

I have put in feature requests for both of these and Fred has indicated that he is looking into them. I am very much hoping that they make an appearance in SB2.0 as that would open up using SpiderBasic to a much broader set of use cases. Fingers crossed.

Once SB has the above features, it should be possible to wrap the API calls for Twitter etc into modules fairly easily.

[MrTAToad]

Oh yes - the main problem is they dont really make things easy to use...

[SparrowhawkMMU]

Never a truer word!