Twitter User Mentions feed

[skpy]

Twitter offers an API endpoint for user mentions. It would be grand if I could subscribe to this from Granary.

[snarfed]

yes! thanks for filing. i looked at that API endpoint originally, but shied away from it since it only works for the authenticated user, not arbitrary usernames:

granary/granary/twitter.py

Lines 415 to 418 in 2310f03

	# get mentions of this tweet's author so we can search them for replies to
	# this tweet. can't use statuses/mentions_timeline because i'd need to
	# auth as the user being mentioned.
	# https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/statuses/mentions_timeline

...but that's a totally reasonable limit to impose.

[snarfed]

note to myself: i'd probably add the special case for the authenticated user to fetch_mentions():

https://granary.readthedocs.io/en/latest/source/granary.html#granary.twitter.Twitter.fetch_mentions

granary/granary/twitter.py

Line 449 in 2310f03

def fetch_mentions(self, username, tweets, min_id=None):

not sure how i'd expose it in the API and/or the web UI yet.

[skpy]

Sorry if I'm missing something obvious, but isn't Granary authenticating to Twitter as me already? Or is it authenticating as your application ID and I'm simply granting that ID read access to my Tweets?

[snarfed]

heh, yes. the missing part is the statuses/mentions_timeline API call, and the new REST endpoint, UI, etc we'll need for it, not authentication.

[snarfed]

Twitter is now developer-hostile, so I don't plan to work on this myself. I'll happily review and merge PR(s) though!