Twitter user id in iOS 5

Question

I'm using the following code to get the user details from Twitter in iOS 5.

if ([TWTweetComposeViewController canSendTweet]) 
{
    // Create account store, followed by a Twitter account identifer
    account = [[ACAccountStore alloc] init];
    ACAccountType *accountType = [account accountTypeWithAccountTypeIdentifier:ACAccountTypeIdentifierTwitter];

    // Request access from the user to use their Twitter accounts.
    [account requestAccessToAccountsWithType:accountType withCompletionHandler:^(BOOL granted, NSError *error) 
     {
         // Did user allow us access?
         if (granted == YES)
         {
             // Populate array with all available Twitter accounts
             arrayOfAccounts = [account accountsWithAccountType:accountType];
             [arrayOfAccounts retain];

             // Populate the tableview
             if ([arrayOfAccounts count] > 0) 
                 [self performSelectorOnMainThread:@selector(updateTableview) withObject:NULL waitUntilDone:NO];
         }
     }];
}

//

-(void)updateTableview
{

    numberOfTwitterAccounts = [arrayOfAccounts count];
    NSLog(@"Twiter details-- %@",[arrayOfAccounts objectAtIndex:0]);

}

In my NSLog console, I am getting the output as follows:

Twiter details-- type:com.apple.twitter  
identifier: E8591841-2AE0-4FC3-8ED8-F286BE7A36B0
accountDescription: @Sadoo55
username: [email protected]
objectID: x-coredata://F8059811-CFB2-4E20-BD88-F4D06A43EF11/Account/p8
enabledDataclasses: {(
)}
properties: {
  "user_id" = 308905856;
}
parentAccount: (null)
owningBundleID:com.apple.Preferences

I want to get the "user_id" from this. How can I fetch "user_id" (ie. 308905856)?

Solution 1

Getting the user ID &/or username is much easier than that.

iOS 7 version

ACAccount *account = accountsArray[0];
NSString *userID = ((NSDictionary*)[account valueForKey:@"properties"])[@"user_id"];

or

ACAccount *twitterAccount = accountsArray[0];
NSRange range = [account.description rangeOfString:@" [0-9]{7,8}"
                                           options:NSRegularExpressionSearch];
if (range.location != NSNotFound) {
  NSString *userID = [[account.description substringWithRange:range] stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:[NSCharacterSet whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet]];
  NSLog(@"User ID: %@", userID);
}

iOS 5 version

There was an undocumented method of ACAccount called accountProperties of type NSDictionary with a user_id key.

ACAccount *twitterAccount = [accountsArray objectAtIndex:0];
NSString *userID = [[twitterAccount accountProperties] objectForKey:@"user_id"];
NSString *username = twitterAccount.username;

**Does not work under iOS6 because the method is no longer defined.

Solution 2

Here's what I did to get the user_id in iOS5 and iOS6.

    NSDictionary *tempDict = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] initWithDictionary: 
                                     [twitterAccount dictionaryWithValuesForKeys:[NSArray arrayWithObject:@"properties"]]];
    NSString *tempUserID = [[tempDict objectForKey:@"properties"] objectForKey:@"user_id"];

Solution 3

You can think account object like a dictionary and perform this:

ACAccount *account = [twitterAccounts objectAtIndex:0];
NSString *userID = [account valueForKeyPath:@"properties.user_id"];

This will return user_id

Comments

[DarkDust]

Oh come on, this is your 19th question, you should know how to format your question by now.

[aksani56]

I dont think twitter gives you the flexibility for getting user-id for twitter. Check this: dev.twitter.com/docs/ios/using-reverse-auth . See this also in the same context with regard to your question : stackoverflow.com/questions/8543015/…. As far as i came across the posts online i would say one word we can't access user-id, twitter doesn't give flexibility for its inside API. Think you can't get that :(

[aksani56]

Its giving a JSON response. Extract it in some NSDictionary and get the[dictionary valueForKey:@"properties"]valueForKey:@"user_id"];

[aksani56]

let us continue this discussion in chat

[UIAdam]

Since she is using iOS 5, there is built-in JSON support in the NSJSONSerialization class.

[Gurpartap Singh]

This answer is incorrect. As it is very apparent in the debug log output in the question, identifier is not the same as user_id.

[Muhammed Sadiq.HS]

@cirrosstrauts The Updated answer is correct. But am getting a warning that " instance method '-accountProperties' not found (return type defaults to 'id') " Any way thanks to ur answer..

[runmad]

There is no such property "accountProperty"

[Tommy]

Then wouldn't [twitterAccount valueForKeyPath:@"properties.user_id"] do the same thing without an intermediate dictionary?