Pinned List lookup quick start guide

Please note: This guide assumes you have completed the prerequisites from the quick start overview.

Steps to build a pinned List lookup request

Step one: Choose the List endpoint collection from Postman

Once you have the Twitter API v2 collection loaded in Postman, navigate to the “List” folder, select another folder “Pinned Lists”, and then choose "User's pinned Lists".

Step two: Identify and specify the user

In order to retrieve a user’s pinned List, you must specify their user ID within the request. The user ID must correspond to the authenticating user’s ID, meaning that you must pass the Access Tokens associated with the user ID when authenticating your request. In this example, you can specify the ID belonging to your own user. You can find your ID in two ways:

Using the users lookup by username endpoint, you can pass a username and receive the id field.
Looking at your Access Token, you will find that the numeric part is your user ID.

In Postman, navigate to the "Params" tab and enter this user ID into the "Value" column of the id parameter.

Key	Value
`id`	2244994945 (user ID)

Step three: Identify and specify which fields you would like to retrieve

If you click the "Send" button after step three, you will receive the default List object fields in your response: id and name.

If you would like to receive additional fields beyond id and name, you will have to specify those fields in your request with the field and/or expansion parameters.

For this exercise, we will request a three additional sets of fields from different objects:

The additional follower_count field in the primary List object.
The full user object using the expansion parameter.
The additional tweet.created_at field in the associated user object.

In Postman, navigate to the "Params" tab and add the following key:value pair to the "Query Params" table:

Key	Value	Returned fields
list.fields	follower_count	`follower_count`
expansions	owner_id	`includes.users.id, includes.users.name, includes.users.username`
user.fields	created_at	`includes.users.created_at`

You should now see a similar URL next to the “Send” button:

      https://api.twitter.com/2/users/2244994945/pinned_lists?expansions=owner_id&list.fields=follower_count&user.fields=created_at

Step four: Make your request and review your response

Once you have everything set up, hit the "Send" button, and you will receive a similar response to the following example response:

      {
  "data": [
    {
      "follower_count": 0,
      "id": "1454155907651158017",
      "name": "test list",
      "owner_id": "2244994945"
    }
  ],
  "includes": {
    "users": [
      {
        "username": "TwitterDev",
        "id": "2244994945",
        "created_at": "2013-12-14T04:35:55.000Z",
        "name": "Twitter Dev"
      }
    ]
  },
  "meta": {
    "result_count": 1
  }
}

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