Twitter API - Not a hash reference

[Anonymous Monk]

Documentation: Net::Twitter

My goal is to have it return the lates status & screen name of the user searched for. I'm pretty confused by hash references, as when I use the dumper I just see this=>that=>this, but I can't figure out how to access all these things that I want.

But looking at the documentation for "lookup_users", it gives an array first, maybe since you can search multiple things, I think I figured out how to access that, but after that I'm not sure.

use warnings;
use 5.010;

use Net::Twitter;
use Config::Tiny;
use Data::Dumper qw(Dumper);
use File::HomeDir;
use Data::Dumper;

my $nt = Net::Twitter->new(
    ssl      => 1,
    traits   => [qw/API::RESTv1_1/],
    consumer_key        => '',
    consumer_secret     => '',
    access_token        => '',
    access_token_secret => '',
);


my $l = $nt->lookup_users({ screen_name => 'twitter'});

my $tweet = (@{$l->{screen_name}});

print "$tweet\n";

Here I just tried to grab the screen name for a start, since the "status" is deeper. But this just gives me "Not a HASH reference"

[Discipulus]

Hello,

Just seeing docs (never twitted inmy life..) I assume $nt->lookup_users.. returns an array so you need to iterate over element or access directly one as in:

# totally untested!
my @users = $nt->lookup_users; 
foreach my $usr (@users){

   print $usr{screen_name}; #??
   use Data:Dump dd method to see the structure you get back (better t
+han Data::Dumper)
   dd $usr
}
# or directly first element returned
print $users[0]{screen_name};
dd $users[0];

I just looked here and here

UPDATE sorry the method does not returns an array but an array ref: not big difference but different..

# totally untested! again
my $users = $nt->lookup_users; 
foreach my $usr (@$users){

   print $usr{screen_name}; #??
   use Data:Dump dd method to see the structure you get back (better t
+han Data::Dumper)
   dd $usr
}
# or directly first element returned
print $$users[0]->{screen_name};
dd $$users[0];

L*

[Anonymous Monk]

This works, thanks! And Data::Dump help me figure out how get to the latest tweet also :) Very helpful.

[stevieb]

Please edit your question with the actual data structure coming back after being rendered through Data::Dumper.

We can then help you understand how to extract the bits you want.

[planetscape]

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