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trends/available

Returns the locations that Twitter has trending topic information for. The response is an array of "locations" that encode the location's WOEID (a Yahoo! Where On Earth ID) and some other human-readable information such as a canonical name and country the location belongs in.

The WOEID that is returned in the location object is to be used when querying for a specific trend.

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URL:

http://api.twitter.com/1/trends/available.format

Format: 

xml, json

HTTP Method:

GET

Requires Authentication (about authentication):

false

API rate limited (about rate limiting):

true 

Parameters:

• lat.  Optional.  If passed in conjunction with long, then the available trend locations will be sorted by distance to the lat and long passed in.  The sort is nearest to furthest.
• long.  Optional.  See lat.

Response (about return values): 

          XML example (truncated):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<locations type="array">

<location>

<woeid>2487956</woeid>

<name>San Francisco</name>

<placeTypeName code="7">Town</placeTypeName>

<country type="Country" code="US">United States</country>

<url>http://where.yahooapis.com/v1/place/2487956</url>

</location>

...

</locations>

          JSON example (truncated):

[

{

"placeType":

{

"code":7

"name":"Town"

},

"woeid":44418,

"country":"United Kingdom",

"countryCode":"GB",

"url":"http://where.yahooapis.com/v1/place/44418",

"name":"London"

},

...

]

Usage examples: 

cURL (about cURL):

curl http://api.twitter.com/1/trends/available.json

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