{"id":253,"date":"2009-07-09T07:44:52","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T14:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nayansavla.com\/blog\/?p=253"},"modified":"2010-08-01T18:09:12","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T01:09:12","slug":"posting-to-twitter-from-flash-using-tiny-url","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nayansavla.com\/blog\/?p=253","title":{"rendered":"Posting to Twitter from Flash using Tiny Url"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had to find a way to post a link to twitter directly from Flash. Twitter has its own API but then they expect us to collect username and password.
\n 
\nIf you don’t want to collect usernames and passwords on your site and still manage to post stuff to twitter directly there is a way to do. Since I wanted a tiny url link included as well so had to integrate Tiny Url along with twitter.
\n 
\nIt turned out to be really easy and here is how,
\n <\/p>\n

import<\/span> flash.events<\/span>.MouseEvent<\/span>;
\nimport<\/span> flash.net<\/span>.navigateToURL<\/span>;
\nimport<\/span> flash.net<\/span>.URLLoader<\/span>;
\nimport<\/span> flash.net<\/span>.URLRequest<\/span>;
\nimport<\/span> flash.net<\/span>.URLLoaderDataFormat<\/span>;
\n
\nshareBlog.addEventListener<\/span>(<\/span>MouseEvent.CLICK<\/span>,postToTwitter)<\/span>;
\n
\nfunction<\/span> postToTwitter(<\/span>event:MouseEvent)<\/span>:void<\/span>{<\/span>
\ntinyLoader.load<\/span>(<\/span>new<\/span> URLRequest(<\/span>'http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/api-create.php?url=http:\/\/nayansavla.com\/blog?p=253'<\/span> )<\/span>)<\/span>;
\n}<\/span>
\n
\nvar<\/span> tinyLoader:URLLoader = new<\/span> URLLoader(<\/span>)<\/span>;
\ntinyLoader.dataFormat<\/span> = URLLoaderDataFormat.TEXT<\/span>;
\n
\ntinyLoader.addEventListener<\/span>(<\/span>Event.COMPLETE<\/span>,gotTinyURL)<\/span>;
\n
\nfunction<\/span> gotTinyURL(<\/span>event:Event)<\/span>:void<\/span>{<\/span>
\ntrace<\/span>(<\/span>tinyLoader.data<\/span>)<\/span>;
\nvar<\/span> reqString:String<\/span> =  'http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Check this out '<\/span> +  encodeURIComponent(<\/span>tinyLoader.data<\/span>)<\/span>;
\nnavigateToURL(<\/span>new<\/span> URLRequest(<\/span>reqString)<\/span>,"_blank"<\/span>)<\/span>;
\n}<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n

 
\nThe first thing is to get a tinyurl link and they have a api for it, the best thing is they also have a crossdomain.xml so we don’t have to worry about getting the response back within Flash.
\n 
\nSince it returns just the url, I have set the dataFormat for my URLLoader to be text so that it gets stored in the data property and i can use it directly.
\n 
\nNow when we get our tinyurl back its time to post it to twitter. Twitter API doesn’t mention this one possibility where you can submit any message as a post var and the main page captures it, if you are already logged in then it will populate the share screen.
\n 
\nIts a neat little way, if you don’t want to deal with usernames and passwords on your website.
\n 
\n<\/embed><\/object>
\n 
\nThe swf file is embedded above, if you click this button then we call tinyurl, get the link and then open a new window for twitter. If no window opens, it might be because of popup blocker. To avoid popups from Flash i have written another post, Avoiding Popup Blockers<\/a>
\n 
\n
\n 
\nDownload the fla file here<\/a>.
\n 
\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had to find a way to post a link to twitter directly from Flash. Twitter has its own API but then they expect us to collect username and password.   If you don’t want to collect usernames and passwords on your site and still manage to post stuff to twitter directly there is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-as-30","category-actionscript"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nayansavla.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nayansavla.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nayansavla.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nayansavla.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nayansavla.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nayansavla.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nayansavla.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nayansavla.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nayansavla.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}