Can i use a twitter API in Ue4?

Development Programming & Scripting C++
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Being a complete beginner when it comes to C++ in Unreal, I want to know if it’s possible to implement API’s whether it be Twitter/Youtube/Weather etc.
Any Help would be highly appreciated.

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The engine is open source, so with enough technical experience you could integrate anything really. However, there are currently a lot of apis that people integrate all the time with UE4. A popular one is steam. Each one will take a different amount of work. If you look at the engine source in visual studio, under the ThirdParty folders you can see what APIs come pre-bundled in the engine, and you can see its integration.

heres the article on steam integration to maybe give you an idea of how it all works:

EDIT:

here’s a good question asked on the answerhub on bringing in a third party api to UE4. Its not twitter, but it may also be useful in getting you traveling down the right road.

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Thanks, And by the way i used twitter as an example, i actually was interested in grabbing real world weather information, which may even be easier.

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For something as simple as that it should be as easy as just following the first set of directions from the second link I put in the post.



Steps to add RakNet (release) to UE4:

    Download RakNet.

    Copy "RakNet-master" folder to "UE4/Engine/Source/ThirdParty/RakNet/".

    Create there "RakNet.Build.cs"

     using UnrealBuildTool;
     
     public class RakNet : ModuleRules
     {
         public RakNet(TargetInfo Target)
         {
             Type = ModuleType.External;
     
             if (Target.Platform == UnrealTargetPlatform.Win64)
             {
                 PublicIncludePaths.Add(UEBuildConfiguration.UEThirdPartySourceDirectory + "RakNet/RakNet-master/Source/");
                 PublicLibraryPaths.Add(UEBuildConfiguration.UEThirdPartySourceDirectory + "RakNet/RakNet-master/Lib/");
                 PublicAdditionalLibraries.Add("RakNet_vs2008_libstatic_release_x64.lib");
             }
         }
     }

So basically, just follow the above directions, but replace RakNet with your api. Its really as simple as adding it to the directory structure and adding a Api.build.cs to the project, and using the above as a template, but modify to match your api. After that is just like normal with #includes and whatnot. Bigger more robust would require more information but yours seems like a simple Push of data and has its own separate calls that shouldnt rely on anything engine related, like graphics or networking.