Search Twitter Users using Twitter4j

Hi,

In the previous blog we saw how to fetch tweets based on some search criteria using the Twitter4j, a java wrapper library available for Twitter API calls.

In the same grails project, i had the requirement to search users based of their name or words. Twitter4j library provides a cool way to search users over twitter with its searchUsers() method. It helped me a lot to make quick search of users on twitter.

Twitter User search API needs to have twitter account access_token and access_secret, which we obtains after authorizing/connecting twitter account with the application as mentioned in this blog.

Code to search Users:-

[java]

String queryString=’Vishal’ // some name which you want to search on twitter
TwitterFactory factory = new TwitterFactory()
Twitter twitter = factory.getInstance()
twitter.setOAuthConsumer(consumerKey, consumerSecret)
AccessToken accessToken = new AccessToken(twitterToken, twitterSecret)
twitter.setOAuthAccessToken(accessToken)

List users = twitter.searchUsers(queryString, 1)
users.each { user->
println("Name: ${user.screenName}")
println("Location: ${user.location}")
}
[/java]

This code will fetch the latest 20 users which fits the searched criteria.

Hope this helps.