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Snap type:

Read

Description:

This Snap lists the complete details of a user profile whose User ID or Screen name is provided in properties or as Input.

While this uses the Twitter User Lookup API, it is limited to searching for one user.

Expected upstream Snaps: Upstream Snap can be provided. File Reader followed by any File Parser.
Expected downstream Snaps: Any File Formatter followed by File Writer.
Expected input: User ID or screen name should be provided.
Expected output: Twitter user profile.

Prerequisites:

[None]

Support and limitations:

Works in Ultra Task Pipelines.

Account:

This Snap uses account references created on the Accounts page of SnapLogic Manager to handle access to this endpoint. See Configuring Twitter Accounts for information on setting up this type of account.

Views:

Input	This Snap has exactly one document input view. The input data can be provided in an input view or in the properties.
Output	This Snap has exactly one document output view.
Error	This Snap has at most one document error view and produces zero or more documents in the view. An incorrect User ID or Screen Name results in an error message being sent to the error view.

Settings

Label

Required. The name for the Snap. You can modify this to be more specific, especially if you have more than one of the same Snap in your pipeline.

User ID

Required. The ID of the Twitter user.

If no data is provided in the input, either the user ID or the screen name should be provided.

Default value: [None]

Screen name

The screen name of the user.
If no data is provided in the input, either the user ID or the screen name should be provided.

Example: Snaplogicdocs
Default value: [None]

Examples

The example assumes that you have configured & authorized a valid Twitter account (see Configuring Twitter Accounts) to be used with this Snap. The following Lookup Snap is set to retrieve a Twitter user's profile details based on their Screen name. In this case, the Twitter user's Screen name is girishmahadevan:

Similarly, you can also look up a Twitter user's profile details using their User ID.

After successful validation of the Snap, you will see a data preview with a Twitter user's profile details:

Snap Pack History

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Release	Snap Pack Version	Date	Type	Updates
4.27	main12883	13 Nov 2021	Stable	Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.26	main11181	14 Aug 2021	Stable	Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.25	main9554	08 May 2021	Stable	Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.24	424patches8617	18 Mar 2021	Latest	Fixes the error handling issue in the PostTweet Snap, where data and error are now routed to the error view.
4.24	main8556	13 Feb 2021	Stable	Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.23	main7430	14 Nov 2021	Stable	Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.22	main6403	12 Sep 2020	Stable	Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.21	snapsmrc542	09 May 2020	Stable	Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.20	snapsmrc535	08 Feb 2020	Stable	Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.19	snapsmrc8338	02 Dec 2019	Latest	Fixed the broken doc link for the PostDirectMessage Snap.
4.19	snaprsmrc528	19 Nov 2019	Stable	Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.18	snapsmrc523	10 Aug 2019	Stable	Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.17	ALL7402	11 Jun 2019	Latest	Pushed automatic rebuild of the latest version of each Snap Pack to SnapLogic UAT and Elastic servers.
4.17	snapsmrc515	11 Jun 2019	Stable	Added the Snap Execution field to all Standard-mode Snaps. In some Snaps, this field replaces the existing Execute during preview check box.
4.16	snapsmrc508	16 Feb 2019	Stable	Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.15	snapsmrc500	15 Dec 2018	Stable	Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.14	snapsmrc490	15 Aug 2018	Stable	Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.13	snapsmrc486	12 May 2018	Stable	Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.12	snapsmrc480	17 Feb 2018	Stable	Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.11	snapsmrc465	11 Nov 2017	Stable	Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.10	snapsmrc414	12 Aug 2017	Stable	Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.9	snapsmrc405	13 May 2017	Stable	Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.8	snapsmrc398	11 Feb 2017	Stable	Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.7	snapsmrc382	23 Nov 2016	Stable	Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.6	rcmsf233	13 Aug 2016	Stable	Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.5.1	twitter1579	18 May 2016	Stable	Updated the Twitter Streaming Search Snap with a timeout of 10 seconds for preview if the original value provided is zero or more than 30 seconds. For more information, see Twitter Streaming Search.
4.5	rcmsf231	14 May 2016	Stable	Doc Enhancement: Examples added to Twitter Snap documentation.
4.2.2	NA			Updated messages within the Snap Pack.
July/Summer 2014	NA			Twitter Query enhanced to support until, since_id, and max_id.
June 30, 2014	NA			NEW! Twitter Streaming Search Snap. This Snap streams tweets based on a keyword. Addressed the following issues: Twitter Lookup Snap errors out if an expression was used for the screen-name or user-id Twitter Query null pointer exception
March 2014	NA			The Twitter Snap Pack was expanded with the addition of Get Direct Messages, Get Tweets, Lookup, Post Direct Message, and Post Tweet.
January 2014	NA			Twitter Query updated.
June 2013	NA			Introduced in this release.

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