Getting Twitter user details using swift

Question

I have been searching since few days on how I can get user details based on his/her Twitter account ,I'm using twitter login in my application & I haven't found anything about this in Swift, so i'm asking! How can I get the username & email & uprofile Image of a logged in User with Parse from Twitter in order to save them on parse cloud?

Answer 1

You can access the username and userID of the logged-in user pretty easily. Inside most Twitter login methods you'll see something like this:

@IBAction func loginTwitter(sender: UIBarButtonItem) {
    Twitter.sharedInstance().logInWithCompletion {
        (session, error) -> Void in
        if (session != nil) {

            print(session?.userName)
            print(session?.userID)
        } else {
            print("error")

        }
    }
}

Twitter does not expose the email address of users as far as I'm aware.

For the profile image you'll need to send a GET request. Here is some code that may not be up to date with the latest TwitterKit version but should at least give you a sense of how the request should be formatted.

func getUserInfo(screenName : String){
    if let userID = Twitter.sharedInstance().sessionStore.session()!.userID {
        let client = TWTRAPIClient(userID: userID)
        let url = "https://api.twitter.com/1.1/users/show.json"
        let params = ["screen_name": screenName]
        var clientError : NSError?
        let request = Twitter.sharedInstance().APIClient.URLRequestWithMethod("GET", URL: url, parameters: params, error: &clientError)

        client.sendTwitterRequest(request) { (response, data, connectionError) -> Void in
            if let someData = data {
                do {
                    let results = try NSJSONSerialization.JSONObjectWithData(someData, options: .AllowFragments) as! NSDictionary
                    print(results)

                } catch {
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

You'll need to go through the JSON that gets returned and find "profile_image_url_https" a couple levels down.

Good Luck!