Twitter::API::Util - Utilities for working with the Twitter API
version 1.0002
use Twitter::API::Util ':all'; # Given a timestamp in Twitter's text format: my $ts = $status->{created_at}; # "Wed Jun 06 20:07:10 +0000 2012" # Convert it UNIX epoch seconds (a Perl "time" value): my $time = timestamp_to_time($status->{created_at}); # Or a Perl localtime: my $utc = timestamp_to_timepiece($status->{created_at}); # Or a Perl gmtime: my $utc = timestamp_to_gmtime($status->{created_at}); # Check to see if an exception is a Twitter::API::Error if ( is_twitter_api_error($@) ) { warn "Twitter API error: " . $@->twitter_error_text; }
Exports helpful utility functions.
Returns gmtime from a Twitter timestamp string. See "gmtime-EXPR" in perlfunc for details.
gmtime
Returns localtime for a Twitter timestamp string. See "localtime-EXPR" in perlfunc for details.
localtime
Returns a UNIX epoch time for a Twitter timestamp string. See "time" in perlfunc for details.
Returns true if the scalar passed to it is a Twitter::API::Error. Otherwise, it returns false.
Marc Mims <marc@questright.com>
This software is copyright (c) 2015-2018 by Marc Mims.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
To install Twitter::API, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Twitter::API
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Twitter::API
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.