Import Twitter XML into Visual Basic
- by ct2k7
Hello, I'm trying to import an XML that's provided by twitter into a readable format in Visual Basic.
XML looks like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
- <statuses type="array">
- <status>
<created_at>Mon Jan 18 20:41:19 +0000 2010</created_at>
<id>111111111</id>
<text>thattext</text>
<source><a href="http://www.seesmic.com/" rel="nofollow">Seesmic</a></source>
<truncated>false</truncated>
<in_reply_to_status_id>7916479948</in_reply_to_status_id>
<in_reply_to_user_id>90978206</in_reply_to_user_id>
<favorited>false</favorited>
<in_reply_to_screen_name>radonsystems</in_reply_to_screen_name>
- <user>
<id>20193170</id>
<name>personname</name>
<screen_name>screenname</screen_name>
<location>loc</location>
<description>desc</description>
<profile_image_url>http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/747012343/twitter_normal.png</profile_image_url>
<url>myurl</url>
<protected>false</protected>
<followers_count>97</followers_count>
<profile_background_color>ffffff</profile_background_color>
<profile_text_color>333333</profile_text_color>
<profile_link_color>0084B4</profile_link_color>
<profile_sidebar_fill_color>ffffff</profile_sidebar_fill_color>
<profile_sidebar_border_color>ababab</profile_sidebar_border_color>
<friends_count>76</friends_count>
<created_at>Thu Feb 05 21:54:24 +0000 2009</created_at>
<favourites_count>1</favourites_count>
<utc_offset>0</utc_offset>
<time_zone>London</time_zone>
<profile_background_image_url>http://a3.twimg.com/profile_background_images/76723999/754686.png</profile_background_image_url>
<profile_background_tile>true</profile_background_tile>
<notifications>false</notifications>
<geo_enabled>true</geo_enabled>
<verified>false</verified>
<following>false</following>
<statuses_count>782</statuses_count>
<lang>en</lang>
<contributors_enabled>false</contributors_enabled>
</user>
<geo />
<coordinates />
<place />
<contributors />
</status>
</statuses>
Now, I want to display it in a panel that automatically refresh after a certain period, however, I only want to pick out certain bits of info from that xml, such as profile_image_url and text and created_at. You can guess how the data will be formatted, much like that presented in TweetDeck and other Twitter clients.
I'm quite new to Visual Basic, so how could I do this?
Thanks
