Thanks for the explanation 
alvises
bugant
Very well done! Thank you for sharing, I’ll use it as an example of usage of the HTTPoison streaming feature.
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maz
Hi mario, is it possible with twittex to stream a user’s timeline? With ExTwitter you can stream a #hashtag, but you cannot stream a timeline.
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MarioFlach
The 2nd parameter, options, given to stream/2 allow you pass extra parameters to the Twitter API. For example, you can use follow in order to follow tweets from a specifier user:
stream = Twittex.stream! :filter, follow: 4708084272
Note that follow takes a user id and not a user handle.
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maz
Hi Mario, am I using Twittex right? I’m getting
iex(1)> Twittex.search "#myelixirstatus"
{:error, %HTTPoison.Error{id: nil, reason: "Could not authenticate you."}}
Here’s what I did,
for config/config.exs:
config :twittex,
consumer_key: "xxxxxxxx",
consumer_secret: "xxxxxxxx",
token: "xxxxxxxx",
token_secret: "xxxxxxxx"
I’ve confirmed the slugs are valid.
for mix.exs:
def application do
[ [applications: [:twittex]],
extra_applications: [:logger]
]
end
and:
defp deps do
[
{:twittex, "~> 0.3.4"}
]
end
Any ideas?
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MarioFlach
Yes, this is how you should use the library.
I think you should check your consumer keys and tokens. It seems that they are not valid: https://apps.twitter.com
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maz
Hey Mario, I don’t mean to be a pest but I went to https://apps.twitter.com and generated new keys and tokens(with a different account also). It seems that after updating config.exs, mix clean, mix deps.get and mix compile then opening iex with iex -S mix and running:
iex(1)> Twittex.home_timeline
I’m still getting
{:error, %HTTPoison.Error{id: nil, reason: "Could not authenticate you."}}
Not sure what to do at this point.
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MarioFlach
Hi @maz, no problem at all, you helped me found an annoying bug here 
:
@api_key Application.get_env(:twittex, :consumer_key)
@api_secret Application.get_env(:twittex, :consumer_secret)
Basically, @consumer_key and @consumer_secret where defined at compile time in the Twittex.Client.Base module. Updating those configuration keys did not force the module to recompile which I think is why you encountered you authentication problems (the first time you compiled :twittex, those keys where compiled into the application even when you updated your config).
You could try to run mix deps.clean twittex and recompile your application (or run iex -S mix directly), this should fix the problem. Otherwise, I just published version 0.3.5 which fixes the issue and loads :consumer_key and :consumer_secret at runtime.
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maz
demem123
Hi! I was trying out the twittex from the blog. But I got stuck on authorization error. I have set the config
config :twittex,
consumer_key: "xxx",
consumer_secret: "xxxx",
token: "xxx",
token_secret: "xxx"
but it keeps getting stuck when it tries to do a post to the https://stream.twitter.com from the repo. =(
I want to learn to create a streaming api client. =(
Thanks!
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