how to Parse Twitter Timeline json

Question

Below is the Json response of my twitter .i want to parse the values of  "text" and "profile_image_url_https" .

i can able to read the text values using the following code , but how to read the profile image url value from the json response.

 

 class twitter
    {
        public string text
        { get; set; }            

    }

   
    protected async void Button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
     
        Button1.Enabled = false;
        try
        {
            string result = await new WebClient().DownloadStringTaskAsync("http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline/gsudhesh.json?count=3");
       
            JavaScriptSerializer ser = new JavaScriptSerializer();

            List<twitter> lst = (List<twitter>)ser.Deserialize(result, typeof(List<twitter>));
                     
            }           
        
        catch (Exception)        {
            
            throw;
        }
        Button1.Enabled = true;
    }

 

 

{
"place":null,
"retweet_count":0,
"user":{
"is_translator":false,
"show_all_inline_media":true,
"profile_background_color":"B2DFDA",
"protected":false,
"profile_background_tile":true,
"profile_image_url_https":"https:\/\/si0.twimg.com\/profile_images\/1126184785\/P060910_22.19__01__normal.jpg",
"name":"sudhesh",
"profile_sidebar_fill_color":"ffffff",
"location":"",
"screen_name":"gsudhesh",
"listed_count":0,
"utc_offset":19800,
"description":"",
},"text":"happy diwali wishes to all"
}

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Sudhesh. G
http://gurucoders.blogspot.com

Answer 1

> Below is the Json response of my twitter .i want to parse the values of "text" and "profile_image_url_https" .

 
Add Reference to the assembly C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\WCF Support for jQuery\Libraries\Microsoft.Runtime.Serialization.Json.dll (you can download from WCF Support for jQuery)
and use the following code:
 

var json = @"{
        ""place"":null,
        ""retweet_count"":0,
        ""user"":{
            ""is_translator"":false,
            ""show_all_inline_media"":true,
            ""profile_background_color"":""B2DFDA"",
            ""protected"":false,
            ""profile_background_tile"":true,
            ""profile_image_url_https"":""https:\/\/si0.twimg.com\/profile_images\/1126184785\/P060910_22.19__01__normal.jpg"",
            ""name"":""sudhesh"",
            ""profile_sidebar_fill_color"":""ffffff"",
            ""location"":"""",
            ""screen_name"":""gsudhesh"",
            ""listed_count"":0,
            ""utc_offset"":19800,
            ""description"":""""},
        ""text"":""happy diwali wishes to all"" }";
dynamic jo = System.Json.JsonObject.Parse(json).AsDynamic();
var v1 = jo.user.profile_image_url_https.Value;  
var v2 = jo.text.Value;

 

 

Answer 2

hi Malobukv,

 

you  provided the example is working fine. but  it shows only the result as text Value "Default" in my sample code

sample code i tested below :

  var result = await new WebClient().DownloadStringTaskAsync("http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline/gsudhesh.json?count=3"); dynamic jo = System.Json.JsonObject.Parse(result).AsDynamic();

 string url= jo.user.profile_image_url_https.Value;

 string url= jo.text.Value;

 

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Sudhesh. G
http://gurucoders.blogspot.com

Answer 3

> it shows only the result as text Value "Default" in my sample code

in your case the 'jo' is an array, thus you should write the following:

string v1 = jo[0].user.profile_image_url_https.Value;
string v2 = jo[0].text.Value;

 
or

foreach(var itm in jo)
{
    string v1= itm.user.profile_image_url_https.Value;
    string v2 = itm.text.Value;
    ...
}

 

Answer 4

Hi Sudhesh,

How's it going? Do you have any updates about this issue?

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