include_entities and skip_status are always ignored in verify_credentials

[nabi]

I make a GET request to https://api.twitter.com/1.1/account/verify_credentials.json?include_entities=false&skip_status=true and I get a result. However, it seems that even if I set include_entities=false and skip_status=true the parameters are ignored at all times.

The API docs are here: https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/account/verify_credentials

Is there maybe something I am not really getting right???

Thanks

[abraham]

In my test skip_status=true is working as expected but include_entities=false is not.

[NValueAnalytics]

I’m having the same issue with users/lookup (not sure when this started as it use to work)

skip_status works fine but include_entities is ignored and entities are returned which is rather annoying as it messes up my data structures and now have to fix existing code

[NValueAnalytics]

Eventually I figured it out… the Documentation on the API page https://dev.twitter.com/rest/public is NOT up to date, you should use “include_user_entities” instead of "include_entities"
Can someone from Twitter please make sure that at the official Documentation page gets updated?

[abraham]

There are multiple different types of entities. include_user_entities should refer to entities within a user object and include_entities should refer to entities within a status object.

[NValueAnalytics]

Thanks for the clarification Abraham
I only tested this with users/lookup but in my testing include_entities=false had no effect on the JSON response,I had to explicitly use include_user_entities=false & skip_status=true

Maybe the behavior is specific to the endopint?

[abraham]

If you have skip_status=true than include_entities would have no effect because it refers to entities within the status object that was skipped.