This Choreo retrieves the 20 most recent direct messages sent to the authenticating user. The documentation for this Twitter resource can be found here.
To obtain access to direct messages, you will need to make sure your application record on https://dev.twitter.com/apps is set to have a permission level of "Read, Write and Direct Messages".
Here's an example of acceptable inputs:
ConsumerKey: {YOUR CONSUMER KEY}
ConsumerSecret {YOUR CONSUMER SECRET}
AccessToken: {YOUR ACCESS TOKEN}
AccessTokenSecret: {YOUR TOKEN SECRET}
Count: 5
The following is a sample of the JSON information returned by this Choreo:
Note that in cases where both id and id_str are provided in the output, it is preferable to use id_str.
[
{
"created_at": "Mon Aug 27 17:21:03 +0000 2012",
"entities": {
"hashtags": [],
"urls": [],
"user_mentions": []
},
"id": 240136858829479940,
"id_str": "240136858829479936",
"recipient": {
"contributors_enabled": false,
"created_at": "Thu Aug 23 19:45:07 +0000 2012",
"default_profile": false,
"default_profile_image": false,
"description": "Keep calm and test",
"favourites_count": 0,
"follow_request_sent": false,
"followers_count": 0,
"following": false,
"friends_count": 10,
"geo_enabled": true,
"id": 776627022,
"id_str": "776627022",
"is_translator": false,
"lang": "en",
"listed_count": 0,
"location": "San Francisco, CA",
"name": "Mick Jagger",
"notifications": false,
"profile_background_color": "000000",
"profile_background_image_url": "http://a0.twimg.com/profile_background_images/644522235/cdjlccey99gy36j3em67.jpeg",
"profile_background_image_url_https": "https://si0.twimg.com/profile_background_images/644522235/cdjlccey99gy36j3em67.jpeg",
"profile_background_tile": true,
"profile_image_url": "http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/2550226257/y0ef5abcx5yrba8du0sk_normal.jpeg",
"profile_image_url_https": "https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/2550226257/y0ef5abcx5yrba8du0sk_normal.jpeg",
"profile_link_color": "000000",
"profile_sidebar_border_color": "000000",
"profile_sidebar_fill_color": "000000",
"profile_text_color": "000000",
"profile_use_background_image": false,
"protected": false,
"screen_name": "s0c1alm3dia",
"show_all_inline_media": false,
"statuses_count": 0,
"time_zone": "Pacific Time (US & Canada)",
"url": "http://cnn.com",
"utc_offset": -28800,
"verified": false
},
"recipient_id": 776627022,
"recipient_screen_name": "s0c1alm3dia",
"sender": {
"contributors_enabled": true,
"created_at": "Sat May 09 17:58:22 +0000 2009",
"default_profile": false,
"default_profile_image": false,
"description": "I taught your phone that thing you like. The Mobile Partner Engineer @Twitter. ",
"favourites_count": 584,
"follow_request_sent": false,
"followers_count": 10621,
"following": false,
"friends_count": 1181,
"geo_enabled": true,
"id": 38895958,
"id_str": "38895958",
"is_translator": false,
"lang": "en",
"listed_count": 190,
"location": "San Francisco",
"name": "Sean Cook",
"notifications": false,
"profile_background_color": "1A1B1F",
"profile_background_image_url": "http://a0.twimg.com/profile_background_images/495742332/purty_wood.png",
"profile_background_image_url_https": "https://si0.twimg.com/profile_background_images/495742332/purty_wood.png",
"profile_background_tile": true,
"profile_image_url": "http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/1751506047/dead_sexy_normal.JPG",
"profile_image_url_https": "https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/1751506047/dead_sexy_normal.JPG",
"profile_link_color": "2FC2EF",
"profile_sidebar_border_color": "181A1E",
"profile_sidebar_fill_color": "252429",
"profile_text_color": "666666",
"profile_use_background_image": true,
"protected": false,
"screen_name": "theSeanCook",
"show_all_inline_media": true,
"statuses_count": 2608,
"time_zone": "Pacific Time (US & Canada)",
"url": null,
"utc_offset": -28800,
"verified": false
},
"sender_id": 38895958,
"sender_screen_name": "theSeanCook",
"text": "booyakasha"
}
]