Twitter Video support in REST and Streaming API

[abexloss]

Hello guys,

Sorry but I’m a bit confused with this topic…

The message from [quote=“pi_kumar, post:1, topic:31258”]
Ultimately, this means we’ll soon be able to render video via Tweets to developers via REST & Streaming API. More details to follow but below is a look at what the new data payload will look like. Starting in early February, we will begin to roll out support for video rendering across REST and Streaming APIs
[/quote]
… tends to prove that the support of videos has been enabled in February.

This is apparently confirmed from users by reading messages from

Thanks …showing up in the API

and

video_info JSON Structure

The thing is that I can’t see such extended_entities property when using the REST API console for a tweet having a video. For instance the following REST API call for a tweet with a video doesn’t bring extended_entities - see https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/show/556066244005085184.json?include_entities=true ( https://apigee.com/snapshot/twitter?snapId=apigee-console-snapshots-1422766800000_96c79f2a-7b98-4721-b911-295a4ecb62b7 for the snapshot).

So are Twitter videos supported in the REST API at the moment ? Are there some specific conditions so that videos are returned in the extended_entities using the REST services ?

Thanks a lot for your help,

Alexandre 8)

[ePirat]

You are right, the video entity is missing. I am not sure if this is a problem with the API though, as looking at the JSON it seems like the Tweet only includes a link to a Twitter Video which maybe was posted in some other way (?), some clarification would indeed be great…

[andypiper]

I can confirm that video entities for Tweets are now available in the REST and Streaming APIs.

For instance the following REST API call for a tweet with a video doesn’t bring extended_entities - see https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/show/556066244005085184.json?include_entities=true

With that particular Tweet you’ve stumbled across one that uses our promoted video formats, rather than the ones which come from the new consumer video support. In this case it refers to a video at an amp.twitter.com URL rather than the expected set of extended entities. I don’t know of any plans to change the representation of these Tweets at the current time.

I’ve just pulled the Tweet with video from @ActuallyNPH which was popular on the day we launched the feature and that shows the extended entities correctly.

twurl "/1.1/statuses/show/560049149836808192.json"

[abexloss]

Thanks @ePirat and @andypiper for your messages and for confirming that video entities for Tweets are now available.
I ran a test in the console with the tweet suggested (560049149836808192) and indeed I could retrieve the extended entities in this case.

[jameserrico]

Got it, thanks.

[RajiitGct]

Hai everyone,
I cant get extended entities in Rest API for videos…
For example: https://vimeo.com/116765877

[ePirat]

It only works with Twitter native Videos. Not Twitter Card content.

[RajiitGct]

Then we cant get “extended entities” for video which is uploaded by user?

[ePirat]

This already works. There are extended entities for uploaded videos. If you ask about videos like on Vimeo or similar, you are talking about Twitter Cards and afaik there are no plans to provide the card information on the public API.

[RajiitGct]

What you mean by Twitter native Videos??? can you give some examples???

[ePirat]

Tweets that contain Videos hosted by Twitter. Since a few weeks now it is possible to attach short Videos to Tweets. One example would be this Tweet.

[danblaisdell]

I’m not seeing any extended_entities for twitter search (or streaming?) API:

https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json?q=%23twittervideo&include_entities=true

returns responses with no extended_entities, but if I take one of the post ids returned and grab the status by itself it’s there:

https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/show/575449731519795200.json

[HarryBisht11]

Would this process will work for Android Phone using Java. Where is documentation source link for this implementation.

[tweetarchivist]

I’m also repoing what @danblaisdell mentions above: extended_entities is not returning in the REST Search API. What is the timeframe for this being enabled?

[silentium90]

Same here.

Using the REST search API and I don’t get the extended_entities in the result JSON. As mentioned above, it works if I make a API call to eg ‘statuses/show/{id}’, but it would be a bit cumbersome to do that for each tweet in the search result…

@andypiper, @pi_kumar Can an update be given about when or if extended_entities will be added to the REST search API?

[andypiper]

Great question - as you’ve seen right now this isn’t returned in the main search API - I’ll see what we can find out, but nothing to announce at this time.

[giannileggio]

Any time estimate about the search API? Thanks

[PeregrineStudio]

Given Twitter’s recent acquisition of Periscope, are there plans to integrate live streams into this API? I have a client that would LOVE to have live streams embedded on his page.

[andypiper]

We don’t have anything to announce on that at this time.

[andypiper]