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Is it possible to attach to the Twitter streaming API with fiddler?

Is it possible to attach to the Twitter streaming API with fiddler? Could someone tell me how to do it if it's possible?

Solution

  • Twitter's streaming API runs over HTTP, and hence its traffic is caught with Fiddler. However, the traffic is "streamed" and thus you have to use Fiddler's COMETPeek to watch the in-process response.

    1. Enable Streaming on the Fiddler toolbar.
    2. Periodically right-click the stream's session and choose COMETPeek on the Session's context menu.

    This will populate the response inspector with the traffic received from the server thus far.