GET help/configuration

Returns the current configuration used by Twitter including twitter.com slugs which are not usernames, maximum photo resolutions, and t.co shortened URL length.

It is recommended applications request this endpoint when they are loaded, but no more than once a day.

Resource URL¶

https://api.twitter.com/1.1/help/configuration.json

Resource Information¶

Parameters¶

None

Example Request¶

GET https://api.twitter.com/1.1/help/configuration.json

Example Response¶

{
  "characters_reserved_per_media": 24,
  "dm_text_character_limit": 10000,
  "max_media_per_upload": 1,
  "photo_size_limit": 3145728,
  "photo_sizes": {
    "large": {
      "h": 2048,
      "resize": "fit",
      "w": 1024
    },
    "medium": {
      "h": 1200,
      "resize": "fit",
      "w": 600
    },
    "small": {
      "h": 480,
      "resize": "fit",
      "w": 340
    },
    "thumb": {
      "h": 150,
      "resize": "crop",
      "w": 150
    }
  },
  "short_url_length": 23,
  "short_url_length_https": 23,
  "non_username_paths": [
    "about",
    "account",
    "accounts",
    "activity",
    "all",
    "announcements",
    "anywhere",
    "api_rules",
    "api_terms",
    "apirules",
    "apps",
    "auth",
    "badges",
    "blog",
    "business",
    "buttons",
    "contacts",
    "devices",
    "direct_messages",
    "download",
    "downloads",
    "edit_announcements",
    "faq",
    "favorites",
    "find_sources",
    "find_users",
    "followers",
    "following",
    "friend_request",
    "friendrequest",
    "friends",
    "goodies",
    "help",
    "home",
    "i",
    "im_account",
    "inbox",
    "invitations",
    "invite",
    "jobs",
    "list",
    "login",
    "logo",
    "logout",
    "me",
    "mentions",
    "messages",
    "mockview",
    "newtwitter",
    "notifications",
    "nudge",
    "oauth",
    "phoenix_search",
    "positions",
    "privacy",
    "public_timeline",
    "related_tweets",
    "replies",
    "retweeted_of_mine",
    "retweets",
    "retweets_by_others",
    "rules",
    "saved_searches",
    "search",
    "sent",
    "sessions",
    "settings",
    "share",
    "signup",
    "signin",
    "similar_to",
    "statistics",
    "terms",
    "tos",
    "translate",
    "trends",
    "tweetbutton",
    "twttr",
    "update_discoverability",
    "users",
    "welcome",
    "who_to_follow",
    "widgets",
    "zendesk_auth",
    "media_signup"
  ]
}