Photo API Status

fishrod · 2011-07-20T06:55:24.000Z

We have a major client who would like to use the twitter API to upload images with tweets, what’s the status of the API and if possible can we have early access to it?

rno · 2011-07-20T16:42:43.000Z

We’re still in the process of ramping up the number of users who have access to the feature on Twitter.com desktop version. We’ll let you know soon as we’ll be ready to open the API endpoint.

nohorse · 2011-11-07T01:02:00.000Z

is the photo api open yet?

yusukey · 2011-11-07T01:08:53.000Z

Hi,

Now you can tweet with pics using statuses/update_with_media.
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1/post/statuses/update_with_media

nohorse · 2011-11-07T01:33:00.000Z

i would like to get a list of the user’s photos

LazyBucksOnline · 2011-12-25T07:45:59.000Z

Any update on this? I would also like to get a list of the user’s photos.

episod · 2011-12-27T17:02:54.000Z

There’s no explicit API to get a user’s photos.

The best way to get a user’s photos is to walk through their statuses/user_timeline and extract the tweets containing media.

ctsdataminer · 2013-06-18T07:37:29.000Z

Has any API been introduced to fetch photos of users?

Samer_Melhem · 2013-06-23T08:57:57.000Z

if you want to tweet images using twitter api you can check my blog and see all the steps and download the example :

Stirring Interactive – 18 Jun 13

Tweet Images using twitter API

Detailed tutorial on how you should use twitter API in PHP to tweet images with PHP as you will need tmhOAuth.php.

somuyaji · 2014-06-05T13:05:00.000Z

Is the any API support for the newly introduced Photo-Tagging Feature. I’m using “statuses/update_with_media” api in my application and I would like use the photo tagging feature when uploading an image and to tag the people.

KaushikWavhal · 2014-08-22T10:53:41.000Z

Do we have a provision in the API to post a image using a pre-existing URL?
i.e not uploading image through multipart data

vincentisambart · 2014-08-25T01:51:45.000Z

You can use Twitter cards (https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards) to have an image displayed when a tweet with one of your URLs is included in the tweet, but it will only be displayed in the tweet’s details.
I you want a URL to be uploaded as a pic.twitter.com image and displayed in the timeline, the only way is to upload the full image, you can’t do it with just a URL.

nubro01 · 2016-08-24T14:14:35.655Z

I am testing with
$mediaID = $reply->media_id_string;
//Update metadata
$mediaTags = array(
‘media_id’ => $mediaID ,
‘alt_text’ => array(‘text’ => ‘Test Tag’));
print_r($mediaTags);
$reply = $cb->media_metadata_create($mediaTags);
Picture appears within the tweet, but no tags or metadata, so I must be doing something wrong, or it still doesn’t work!