Back to Collection Items
import sys
import chilkat
# This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
# See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.
http = chilkat.CkHttp()
# Adds the "Authorization: Bearer <access_token>" header.
http.put_AuthToken("<access_token>")
sbResponseBody = chilkat.CkStringBuilder()
success = http.QuickGetSb("https://api.twitter.com/2/users/:id",sbResponseBody)
if (success == False):
print(http.lastErrorText())
sys.exit()
jResp = chilkat.CkJsonObject()
jResp.LoadSb(sbResponseBody)
jResp.put_EmitCompact(False)
print("Response Body:")
print(jResp.emit())
respStatusCode = http.get_LastStatus()
print("Response Status Code = " + str(respStatusCode))
if (respStatusCode >= 400):
print("Response Header:")
print(http.lastHeader())
print("Failed.")
sys.exit()
# Sample JSON response:
# (Sample code for parsing the JSON response is shown below)
# {
# "errors": [
# {
# "detail": "Could not find user with id: [2244994946].",
# "title": "Not Found Error",
# "resource_type": "user",
# "parameter": "id",
# "value": "2244994946",
# "type": "https://api.twitter.com/2/problems/resource-not-found"
# }
# ]
# }
# Sample code for parsing the JSON response...
# Use this online tool to generate parsing code from sample JSON: Generate JSON Parsing Code
i = 0
count_i = jResp.SizeOfArray("errors")
while i < count_i :
jResp.put_I(i)
detail = jResp.stringOf("errors[i].detail")
title = jResp.stringOf("errors[i].title")
resource_type = jResp.stringOf("errors[i].resource_type")
parameter = jResp.stringOf("errors[i].parameter")
value = jResp.stringOf("errors[i].value")
v_type = jResp.stringOf("errors[i].type")
i = i + 1
Curl Command
curl -X GET
-H "Authorization: Bearer <access_token>"
https://api.twitter.com/2/users/:id
Postman Collection Item JSON
{
"name": "User by ID",
"request": {
"method": "GET",
"header": [
],
"url": {
"raw": "https://api.twitter.com/2/users/:id",
"protocol": "https",
"host": [
"api",
"twitter",
"com"
],
"path": [
"2",
"users",
":id"
],
"query": [
{
"key": "user.fields",
"value": "",
"description": "Comma-separated fields for the user object.\n\nAllowed values:\ncreated_at,description,entities,id,location,name,pinned_tweet_id,profile_image_url,protected,public_metrics,url,username,verified,withheld\n\nDefault values:\nid,name,username",
"disabled": true
},
{
"key": "expansions",
"value": "",
"description": "Expansions enable requests to expand an ID into a full object in the includes response object.\n\nAllowed value:\npinned_tweet_id\n\nDefault value: none",
"disabled": true
},
{
"key": "tweet.fields",
"value": "",
"description": "Comma-separated list of fields for the Tweet object. Expansion required.\n\nAllowed values:\nattachments,author_id,context_annotations,conversation_id,created_at,entities,geo,id,in_reply_to_user_id,lang,non_public_metrics,organic_metrics,possibly_sensitive,promoted_metrics,public_metrics,referenced_tweets,reply_settings,source,text,withheld\n\nDefault values:\nid,text\n\nOAuth1.0a User Context authorization required if any of the following fields are included in the request:\nnon_public_metrics,organic_metrics,promoted_metrics",
"disabled": true
}
],
"variable": [
{
"key": "id",
"value": "",
"type": "string",
"description": "Required. Enter a single user ID."
}
]
},
"description": "This endpoint returns details about a user by ID.\n\nFor full details, see the [API reference](https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/users/lookup/api-reference/get-users-id) for this endpoint.\n\n[Sign up](https://t.co/signup) for the Twitter API"
},
"response": [
{
"name": "200 Success - User Not Found",
"originalRequest": {
"method": "GET",
"header": [
],
"url": {
"raw": "https://api.twitter.com/2/users/:id",
"protocol": "https",
"host": [
"api",
"twitter",
"com"
],
"path": [
"2",
"users",
":id"
],
"query": [
{
"key": "user.fields",
"value": "",
"description": "created_at,description,entities,id,location,name,pinned_tweet_id,profile_image_url,protected,public_metrics,url,username,verified,withheld",
"disabled": true
},
{
"key": "expansions",
"value": "",
"description": "pinned_tweet_id",
"disabled": true
},
{
"key": "tweet.fields",
"value": "",
"description": "attachments,author_id,context_annotations,conversation_id,created_at,entities,geo,id,in_reply_to_user_id,lang,non_public_metrics,organic_metrics,possibly_sensitive,promoted_metrics,public_metrics,referenced_tweets,source,text,withheld",
"disabled": true
}
],
"variable": [
{
"key": "id",
"value": "2244994946"
}
]
}
},
"status": "OK",
"code": 200,
"_postman_previewlanguage": "json",
"header": [
{
"key": "content-disposition",
"value": "attachment; filename=json.json"
},
{
"key": "content-encoding",
"value": "gzip"
},
{
"key": "content-length",
"value": "186"
},
{
"key": "content-type",
"value": "application/json; charset=utf-8"
},
{
"key": "date",
"value": "Fri, 26 Jun 2020 16:22:36 GMT"
},
{
"key": "server",
"value": "tsa_b"
},
{
"key": "strict-transport-security",
"value": "max-age=631138519"
},
{
"key": "x-access-level",
"value": "read"
},
{
"key": "x-connection-hash",
"value": "eae8bea11e85fe49e732de33763f0cf2"
},
{
"key": "x-content-type-options",
"value": "nosniff"
},
{
"key": "x-frame-options",
"value": "SAMEORIGIN"
},
{
"key": "x-rate-limit-limit",
"value": "15"
},
{
"key": "x-rate-limit-remaining",
"value": "12"
},
{
"key": "x-rate-limit-reset",
"value": "1593189419"
},
{
"key": "x-response-time",
"value": "63"
},
{
"key": "x-xss-protection",
"value": "0"
}
],
"cookie": [
],
"body": "{\n \"errors\": [\n {\n \"detail\": \"Could not find user with id: [2244994946].\",\n \"title\": \"Not Found Error\",\n \"resource_type\": \"user\",\n \"parameter\": \"id\",\n \"value\": \"2244994946\",\n \"type\": \"https://api.twitter.com/2/problems/resource-not-found\"\n }\n ]\n}"
},
{
"name": "429 Rate Limit Exceeded",
"originalRequest": {
"method": "GET",
"header": [
],
"url": {
"raw": "https://api.twitter.com/2/users/:id",
"protocol": "https",
"host": [
"api",
"twitter",
"com"
],
"path": [
"2",
"users",
":id"
],
"query": [
{
"key": "user.fields",
"value": "created_at,description,entities,id,location,name,pinned_tweet_id,profile_image_url,protected,url,username,verified,withheld",
"description": "created_at,description,entities,id,location,name,pinned_tweet_id,profile_image_url,protected,public_metrics,url,username,verified,withheld",
"disabled": true
},
{
"key": "expansions",
"value": "pinned_tweet_id",
"description": "pinned_tweet_id",
"disabled": true
},
{
"key": "tweet.fields",
"value": "attachments,author_id,conversation_id,created_at,entities,geo,id,in_reply_to_user_id,lang,possibly_sensitive,referenced_tweets,source,text,withheld",
"description": "attachments,author_id,context_annotations,conversation_id,created_at,entities,geo,id,in_reply_to_user_id,lang,non_public_metrics,organic_metrics,possibly_sensitive,promoted_metrics,public_metrics,referenced_tweets,source,text,withheld",
"disabled": true
}
],
"variable": [
{
"key": "id",
"value": "2244994945"
}
]
}
},
"status": "Too Many Requests",
"code": 429,
"_postman_previewlanguage": "plain",
"header": [
{
"key": "content-encoding",
"value": "gzip"
},
{
"key": "content-length",
"value": "46"
},
{
"key": "content-type",
"value": "text/plain;charset=utf-8"
},
{
"key": "date",
"value": "Fri, 26 Jun 2020 15:34:56 GMT"
},
{
"key": "server",
"value": "tsa_b"
},
{
"key": "strict-transport-security",
"value": "max-age=631138519"
},
{
"key": "x-connection-hash",
"value": "bf6b8cccb0bc95bc56a50be4db9a2d09"
},
{
"key": "x-rate-limit-limit",
"value": "15"
},
{
"key": "x-rate-limit-remaining",
"value": "0"
},
{
"key": "x-rate-limit-reset",
"value": "1593186139"
},
{
"key": "x-response-time",
"value": "6"
}
],
"cookie": [
],
"body": "Rate limit exceeded\n"
},
{
"name": "200 Success - Default Payload",
"originalRequest": {
"method": "GET",
"header": [
],
"url": {
"raw": "https://api.twitter.com/2/users/:id",
"protocol": "https",
"host": [
"api",
"twitter",
"com"
],
"path": [
"2",
"users",
":id"
],
"query": [
{
"key": "user.fields",
"value": "",
"description": "created_at,description,entities,id,location,name,pinned_tweet_id,profile_image_url,protected,public_metrics,url,username,verified,withheld",
"disabled": true
},
{
"key": "expansions",
"value": "",
"description": "pinned_tweet_id",
"disabled": true
},
{
"key": "tweet.fields",
"value": "",
"description": "attachments,author_id,context_annotations,conversation_id,created_at,entities,geo,id,in_reply_to_user_id,lang,non_public_metrics,organic_metrics,possibly_sensitive,promoted_metrics,public_metrics,referenced_tweets,source,text,withheld",
"disabled": true
}
],
"variable": [
{
"key": "id",
"value": "2244994945"
}
]
}
},
"status": "OK",
"code": 200,
"_postman_previewlanguage": "json",
"header": [
{
"key": "content-disposition",
"value": "attachment; filename=json.json"
},
{
"key": "content-encoding",
"value": "gzip"
},
{
"key": "content-length",
"value": "83"
},
{
"key": "content-type",
"value": "application/json; charset=utf-8"
},
{
"key": "date",
"value": "Fri, 26 Jun 2020 16:21:59 GMT"
},
{
"key": "server",
"value": "tsa_b"
},
{
"key": "strict-transport-security",
"value": "max-age=631138519"
},
{
"key": "x-access-level",
"value": "read"
},
{
"key": "x-connection-hash",
"value": "eae8bea11e85fe49e732de33763f0cf2"
},
{
"key": "x-content-type-options",
"value": "nosniff"
},
{
"key": "x-frame-options",
"value": "SAMEORIGIN"
},
{
"key": "x-rate-limit-limit",
"value": "15"
},
{
"key": "x-rate-limit-remaining",
"value": "14"
},
{
"key": "x-rate-limit-reset",
"value": "1593189419"
},
{
"key": "x-response-time",
"value": "59"
},
{
"key": "x-xss-protection",
"value": "0"
}
],
"cookie": [
],
"body": "{\n \"data\": {\n \"id\": \"2244994945\",\n \"name\": \"Twitter Dev\",\n \"username\": \"TwitterDev\"\n }\n}"
},
{
"name": "User by ID",
"originalRequest": {
"method": "GET",
"header": [
],
"url": {
"raw": "https://api.twitter.com/2/users/:id",
"protocol": "https",
"host": [
"api",
"twitter",
"com"
],
"path": [
"2",
"users",
":id"
],
"query": [
{
"key": "user.fields",
"value": "",
"description": "created_at,description,entities,id,location,name,pinned_tweet_id,profile_image_url,protected,public_metrics,url,username,verified,withheld",
"disabled": true
},
{
"key": "expansions",
"value": "",
"description": "pinned_tweet_id",
"disabled": true
},
{
"key": "tweet.fields",
"value": "",
"description": "attachments,author_id,context_annotations,conversation_id,created_at,entities,geo,id,in_reply_to_user_id,lang,non_public_metrics,organic_metrics,possibly_sensitive,promoted_metrics,public_metrics,referenced_tweets,source,text,withheld",
"disabled": true
}
],
"variable": [
{
"key": "id",
"value": ""
}
]
}
},
"status": "OK",
"code": 200,
"_postman_previewlanguage": "json",
"header": [
{
"key": "content-disposition",
"value": "attachment; filename=json.json"
},
{
"key": "content-encoding",
"value": "gzip"
},
{
"key": "content-length",
"value": "219"
},
{
"key": "content-type",
"value": "application/json; charset=utf-8"
},
{
"key": "date",
"value": "Fri, 26 Jun 2020 16:25:31 GMT"
},
{
"key": "server",
"value": "tsa_b"
},
{
"key": "strict-transport-security",
"value": "max-age=631138519"
},
{
"key": "x-access-level",
"value": "read"
},
{
"key": "x-connection-hash",
"value": "eae8bea11e85fe49e732de33763f0cf2"
},
{
"key": "x-content-type-options",
"value": "nosniff"
},
{
"key": "x-frame-options",
"value": "SAMEORIGIN"
},
{
"key": "x-rate-limit-limit",
"value": "15"
},
{
"key": "x-rate-limit-remaining",
"value": "8"
},
{
"key": "x-rate-limit-reset",
"value": "1593189419"
},
{
"key": "x-response-time",
"value": "29"
},
{
"key": "x-xss-protection",
"value": "0"
}
],
"cookie": [
],
"body": "{\n \"data\": {\n \"created_at\": \"2020-06-17T19:10:19.000Z\",\n \"description\": \"\",\n \"id\": \"1273332037970202626\",\n \"name\": \"Clou\",\n \"profile_image_url\": \"https://abs.twimg.com/sticky/default_profile_images/default_profile_normal.png\",\n \"protected\": true,\n \"url\": \"\",\n \"username\": \"Clou18829992\",\n \"verified\": false\n }\n}"
},
{
"name": "200 Success - Request Fields for User and Expanded Pinned Tweet",
"originalRequest": {
"method": "GET",
"header": [
],
"url": {
"raw": "https://api.twitter.com/2/users/:id?user.fields=created_at,description,entities,id,location,name,pinned_tweet_id,profile_image_url,protected,url,username,verified,withheld&expansions=pinned_tweet_id&tweet.fields=attachments,author_id,conversation_id,created_at,entities,geo,id,in_reply_to_user_id,lang,possibly_sensitive,referenced_tweets,source,text,withheld",
"protocol": "https",
"host": [
"api",
"twitter",
"com"
],
"path": [
"2",
"users",
":id"
],
"query": [
{
"key": "user.fields",
"value": "created_at,description,entities,id,location,name,pinned_tweet_id,profile_image_url,protected,url,username,verified,withheld",
"description": "created_at,description,entities,id,location,name,pinned_tweet_id,profile_image_url,protected,public_metrics,url,username,verified,withheld"
},
{
"key": "expansions",
"value": "pinned_tweet_id",
"description": "pinned_tweet_id"
},
{
"key": "tweet.fields",
"value": "attachments,author_id,conversation_id,created_at,entities,geo,id,in_reply_to_user_id,lang,possibly_sensitive,referenced_tweets,source,text,withheld",
"description": "attachments,author_id,context_annotations,conversation_id,created_at,entities,geo,id,in_reply_to_user_id,lang,non_public_metrics,organic_metrics,possibly_sensitive,promoted_metrics,public_metrics,referenced_tweets,source,text,withheld"
}
],
"variable": [
{
"key": "id",
"value": "2244994945"
}
]
}
},
"status": "OK",
"code": 200,
"_postman_previewlanguage": "json",
"header": [
{
"key": "content-disposition",
"value": "attachment; filename=json.json"
},
{
"key": "content-encoding",
"value": "gzip"
},
{
"key": "content-length",
"value": "1012"
},
{
"key": "content-type",
"value": "application/json; charset=utf-8"
},
{
"key": "date",
"value": "Fri, 26 Jun 2020 15:33:41 GMT"
},
{
"key": "server",
"value": "tsa_b"
},
{
"key": "strict-transport-security",
"value": "max-age=631138519"
},
{
"key": "x-access-level",
"value": "read"
},
{
"key": "x-connection-hash",
"value": "bf6b8cccb0bc95bc56a50be4db9a2d09"
},
{
"key": "x-content-type-options",
"value": "nosniff"
},
{
"key": "x-frame-options",
"value": "SAMEORIGIN"
},
{
"key": "x-rate-limit-limit",
"value": "15"
},
{
"key": "x-rate-limit-remaining",
"value": "1"
},
{
"key": "x-rate-limit-reset",
"value": "1593186139"
},
{
"key": "x-response-time",
"value": "76"
},
{
"key": "x-xss-protection",
"value": "0"
}
],
"cookie": [
],
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}
]
}
