[twitter-dev] Awesome
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[twitter-dev] Re: New app for every Twitter account?
No he means each source is a user and has its own account, and authorizes the single app for separate access tokens.. However, my question is, is not having aliases a btter solution for this? In other words, on user having several aliases, each alias being permitted to get separate access tokens for the same app? Regards, Shob On Aug 11, 1:58 pm, Skygazer marc.bouc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Taylor, Ok, but how do you get an access token/access token secret for the other account without creating a new app? On Aug 11, 3:49 pm, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Marc, In this case, instead of using the username/password of a different account while making a request, you would use an access token/access token secret belonging to a different account. You don't need to create separate applications for each account, but you need to authorize the application to act on behalf of each account. If you don't want to implement the OAuth flow to acquire access tokens in your application, you can use another application or library (such as my OAuth Dancer athttp://github.com/episod/oauth-dancer) to secure the access tokens, then port them over to your proper application. Taylor On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Skygazer marc.bouc...@gmail.com wrote: My company has several news sites and each has one or more Twitter accounts depending on the topic. I've created a new app using OAuth and PHP to post our news stories automatically as they are published. Previously with basic authentication I would just pass the username and password etc. to get the story posted. But now I'm wondering, do I need to create a new app for every Twitter account we have? Or can I post to our accounts with the one app I created with its keys and tokens? And if I can use just the one app, how do I post to the other accounts? The app was created on our primary Twitter account. Thanks Marc PS I already have the OAuth and PHP code working for our primary Twiter account.
[twitter-dev] Re: New app for every Twitter account?
Sorry for the typos, here its again: No, he means each source is a user and has its own account, and authorizes the single app for separate access tokens.. However, my question is, is having aliases a better solution for this? In other words, one user having several aliases, each alias being permitted to get separate access tokens for the same app? Regards, Shob On Aug 11, 2:04 pm, Jacky jaga...@gmail.com wrote: No he means each source is a user and has its own account, and authorizes the single app for separate access tokens.. However, my question is, is not having aliases a btter solution for this? In other words, on user having several aliases, each alias being permitted to get separate access tokens for the same app? Regards, Shob On Aug 11, 1:58 pm, Skygazer marc.bouc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Taylor, Ok, but how do you get an access token/access token secret for the other account without creating a new app? On Aug 11, 3:49 pm, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Marc, In this case, instead of using the username/password of a different account while making a request, you would use an access token/access token secret belonging to a different account. You don't need to create separate applications for each account, but you need to authorize the application to act on behalf of each account. If you don't want to implement the OAuth flow to acquire access tokens in your application, you can use another application or library (such as my OAuth Dancer athttp://github.com/episod/oauth-dancer) to secure the access tokens, then port them over to your proper application. Taylor On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Skygazer marc.bouc...@gmail.com wrote: My company has several news sites and each has one or more Twitter accounts depending on the topic. I've created a new app using OAuth and PHP to post our news stories automatically as they are published. Previously with basic authentication I would just pass the username and password etc. to get the story posted. But now I'm wondering, do I need to create a new app for every Twitter account we have? Or can I post to our accounts with the one app I created with its keys and tokens? And if I can use just the one app, how do I post to the other accounts? The app was created on our primary Twitter account. Thanks Marc PS I already have the OAuth and PHP code working for our primary Twiter account.
[twitter-dev] Re: New app for every Twitter account?
No its not, and I wish it was allowed/supported... On Aug 11, 2:09 pm, Skygazer marc.bouc...@gmail.com wrote: That makes sense to me but that's not supported at this time from my understanding. On Aug 11, 5:04 pm, Jacky jaga...@gmail.com wrote: No he means each source is a user and has its own account, and authorizes the single app for separate access tokens.. However, my question is, is not having aliases a btter solution for this? In other words, on user having several aliases, each alias being permitted to get separate access tokens for the same app? Regards, Shob On Aug 11, 1:58 pm, Skygazer marc.bouc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Taylor, Ok, but how do you get an access token/access token secret for the other account without creating a new app? On Aug 11, 3:49 pm, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Marc, In this case, instead of using the username/password of a different account while making a request, you would use an access token/access token secret belonging to a different account. You don't need to create separate applications for each account, but you need to authorize the application to act on behalf of each account. If you don't want to implement the OAuth flow to acquire access tokens in your application, you can use another application or library (such as my OAuth Dancer athttp://github.com/episod/oauth-dancer) to secure the access tokens, then port them over to your proper application. Taylor On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Skygazer marc.bouc...@gmail.com wrote: My company has several news sites and each has one or more Twitter accounts depending on the topic. I've created a new app using OAuth and PHP to post our news stories automatically as they are published. Previously with basic authentication I would just pass the username and password etc. to get the story posted. But now I'm wondering, do I need to create a new app for every Twitter account we have? Or can I post to our accounts with the one app I created with its keys and tokens? And if I can use just the one app, how do I post to the other accounts? The app was created on our primary Twitter account. Thanks Marc PS I already have the OAuth and PHP code working for our primary Twiter account.
[twitter-dev] Re: Using the Authorization header
I am trying to get everybody who wants to test using this Mozilla REST client, so we can have a common baseline, we can narrow source of errors.-copy and past header here and POST https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9780/ Shob On Aug 4, 9:19 am, Ben Jones benjamin.david.jo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm currently writing my own OAuth lib for use with Twitter and have gotten stuck whilst using the Authorization HTTP header, rather than putting the OAuth parameters in the body. An example of a request that is failing is: POST /1/statuses/update.xml HTTP/1.1 Authorization: OAuth realm=http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/ update.xml, oauth_consumer_key=x, oauth_token=x, oauth_nonce=x, oauth_timestamp=1280937572, oauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1, oauth_version=1.0, oauth_signature=DLPyc3h6BcC5zbGXrUcujvZnqxk= User-Agent: Java/1.6.0_07 Host: api.twitter.com Accept: text/html, image/gif, image/jpeg, *; q=.2, */*; q=.2 Connection: keep-alive Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Content-Length: 53 status=Test%25201%25202%25203%25204%25201280937572396 ...(token etc blanked out, and new lines added in) This results in the server returning a 500 error and the Something is technically wrong. error page. I've talked to another developer who doesn't experience this. I've tried this with the parameters alphabetically ordered, unordered and with and without the 'realm' parameter, which isn't used in thehttp://dev.twitter.com/pages/authpage. I don't have the same problem (as in the 500 error) when I put the OAuth parameters in the request body, but this often fails as well with 401 'Invalid signature' errors. What's strange is that putting the OAuth parameters into the form at Hueniverse's OAuth request signing page (http://tinyurl.com/y9bvjyt) shows them, including the signature, to be correct. If I retry the same request, it eventually works (sometimes it works the first time, just not consistently), so I don't think I'm calculating the signature incorrectly. Are the 401 errors occurring because Twitter is busy, or am I doing something wrong? Thanks in advance, any help would be greatly appreciated! ben
[twitter-dev] Re: Using the Authorization header
just watch the timestamps... On Aug 4, 12:58 pm, Jacky jaga...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to get everybody who wants to test using this Mozilla REST client, so we can have a common baseline, we can narrow source of errors.-copy and past header here and POST https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9780/ Shob On Aug 4, 9:19 am, Ben Jones benjamin.david.jo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm currently writing my own OAuth lib for use with Twitter and have gotten stuck whilst using the Authorization HTTP header, rather than putting the OAuth parameters in the body. An example of a request that is failing is: POST /1/statuses/update.xml HTTP/1.1 Authorization: OAuth realm=http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/ update.xml, oauth_consumer_key=x, oauth_token=x, oauth_nonce=x, oauth_timestamp=1280937572, oauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1, oauth_version=1.0, oauth_signature=DLPyc3h6BcC5zbGXrUcujvZnqxk= User-Agent: Java/1.6.0_07 Host: api.twitter.com Accept: text/html, image/gif, image/jpeg, *; q=.2, */*; q=.2 Connection: keep-alive Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Content-Length: 53 status=Test%25201%25202%25203%25204%25201280937572396 ...(token etc blanked out, and new lines added in) This results in the server returning a 500 error and the Something is technically wrong. error page. I've talked to another developer who doesn't experience this. I've tried this with the parameters alphabetically ordered, unordered and with and without the 'realm' parameter, which isn't used in thehttp://dev.twitter.com/pages/authpage. I don't have the same problem (as in the 500 error) when I put the OAuth parameters in the request body, but this often fails as well with 401 'Invalid signature' errors. What's strange is that putting the OAuth parameters into the form at Hueniverse's OAuth request signing page (http://tinyurl.com/y9bvjyt) shows them, including the signature, to be correct. If I retry the same request, it eventually works (sometimes it works the first time, just not consistently), so I don't think I'm calculating the signature incorrectly. Are the 401 errors occurring because Twitter is busy, or am I doing something wrong? Thanks in advance, any help would be greatly appreciated! ben
[twitter-dev] Re: lets test OAuth POST using this client
Works well...helps you crosscheck...and narrow your source of error On Aug 2, 9:46 pm, Jacky jaga...@gmail.com wrote: Amy users using this REST client to test OAuth header https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9780/ so we can have a common base to check against
[twitter-dev] Re: request token/oauth token-alternate method
Also, OAuth oauth_consumer_key= instead of Oauth oauth_consumer_key=... in the authorization header as per Taylor, thanks...
[twitter-dev] lets test OAuth POST using this client
Amy users using this REST client to test OAuth header https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9780/ so we can have a common base to check against
[twitter-dev] Re: request token- REST client
It might be a good idea to be able to use this REST client for all commands as a test benchmark for Twitter API calls(just a thought)... (I have not tested much on this yet, I am just looking at it)... https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9780/ Shob On Jul 8, 1:22 pm, Jacky jaga...@gmail.com wrote: Instead I launched it through a browser and I am all ok. (P.S. Incidental, but, on my previous post I made a typo in the post, i.e.,not the very first string, but the second string and it already has the Oauth in front already and that is the string) Thanks though, Regards, Shob On Jul 7, 8:07 am, Matt Harris thematthar...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Shob, We strongly recommend you use a library for handling OAuth with Twitter until you are comfortable with how OAuth works. For VB I know of at least one library called TwitterVB:http://twittervb.codeplex.com/ This will do the OAuth heavy lifting for you so you can develop an application for use with Twitter quickly. If you then want to roll your own solution you could use the TwitterVB library to compare to the results you are getting from your function. Hope that helps, Matt On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 7:10 AM, Jacky jaga...@gmail.com wrote: Hullo, POSThttps%3A%2F%2Fapi.twitter.com%2Foauth %2Frequest_tokenoauth_callback%3Doob%26oauth_consumer_key %3DhUMUUZO3Zx9zNzJ9DghcA%26oauth_nonce %3DDA39A3EE5E6B4B0D3255BFEF95601890AFD80709%26oauth_signature_method %3DHMAC-SHA1%26oauth_timestamp%3D1277424969%26oauth_version%3D1.0 and Oauth oauth_callback=oob, oauth_consumer_key=hUMUUZO3Zx9zNzJ9DghcA, oauth_nonce=DA39A3EE5E6B4B0D3255BFEF95601890AFD80709, oauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1, oauth_timestamp=1277424969, oauth_version=1.0, oauth_signature=%2Ff8P1dS6QVQnYCIc10kD1%2Bm2DkI %3D using objhttp.Open POST, https://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token;, False objhttp.setRequestHeader Content-type, application/x-www-form- urlencoded objhttp.setRequestHeader Authorization, strsend objhttp.send() Not working, how can I see the stream that is being loaded...or debug this... and strsend is Oauth and appended by the very first string up on top in this email Cant see the problem... Please help, if you can see anything outright off or wrong... Regards, Shob -- Matt Harris Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/themattharris
[twitter-dev] Re: request token
Hullo Matt, Thanks for the reply... I'm too far down this road to take detours...I've got everything working except the final step...everything else checks in well.. I'm just hung up on the objhttp load using vba, somehow the stream loaded seems to fail the generated signature (signature has been checked)...so just need to figure this...hopefully something good will happen before Aug 16. Thanks, Regards, Shob On Jul 7, 8:07 am, Matt Harris thematthar...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Shob, We strongly recommend you use a library for handling OAuth with Twitter until you are comfortable with how OAuth works. For VB I know of at least one library called TwitterVB:http://twittervb.codeplex.com/ This will do the OAuth heavy lifting for you so you can develop an application for use with Twitter quickly. If you then want to roll your own solution you could use the TwitterVB library to compare to the results you are getting from your function. Hope that helps, Matt On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 7:10 AM, Jacky jaga...@gmail.com wrote: Hullo, POSThttps%3A%2F%2Fapi.twitter.com%2Foauth %2Frequest_tokenoauth_callback%3Doob%26oauth_consumer_key %3DhUMUUZO3Zx9zNzJ9DghcA%26oauth_nonce %3DDA39A3EE5E6B4B0D3255BFEF95601890AFD80709%26oauth_signature_method %3DHMAC-SHA1%26oauth_timestamp%3D1277424969%26oauth_version%3D1.0 and Oauth oauth_callback=oob, oauth_consumer_key=hUMUUZO3Zx9zNzJ9DghcA, oauth_nonce=DA39A3EE5E6B4B0D3255BFEF95601890AFD80709, oauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1, oauth_timestamp=1277424969, oauth_version=1.0, oauth_signature=%2Ff8P1dS6QVQnYCIc10kD1%2Bm2DkI %3D using objhttp.Open POST, https://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token;, False objhttp.setRequestHeader Content-type, application/x-www-form- urlencoded objhttp.setRequestHeader Authorization, strsend objhttp.send() Not working, how can I see the stream that is being loaded...or debug this... and strsend is Oauth and appended by the very first string up on top in this email Cant see the problem... Please help, if you can see anything outright off or wrong... Regards, Shob -- Matt Harris Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/themattharris
[twitter-dev] Re: request token
Instead I launched it through a browser and I am all ok. (P.S. Incidental, but, on my previous post I made a typo in the post, i.e.,not the very first string, but the second string and it already has the Oauth in front already and that is the string) Thanks though, Regards, Shob On Jul 7, 8:07 am, Matt Harris thematthar...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Shob, We strongly recommend you use a library for handling OAuth with Twitter until you are comfortable with how OAuth works. For VB I know of at least one library called TwitterVB:http://twittervb.codeplex.com/ This will do the OAuth heavy lifting for you so you can develop an application for use with Twitter quickly. If you then want to roll your own solution you could use the TwitterVB library to compare to the results you are getting from your function. Hope that helps, Matt On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 7:10 AM, Jacky jaga...@gmail.com wrote: Hullo, POSThttps%3A%2F%2Fapi.twitter.com%2Foauth %2Frequest_tokenoauth_callback%3Doob%26oauth_consumer_key %3DhUMUUZO3Zx9zNzJ9DghcA%26oauth_nonce %3DDA39A3EE5E6B4B0D3255BFEF95601890AFD80709%26oauth_signature_method %3DHMAC-SHA1%26oauth_timestamp%3D1277424969%26oauth_version%3D1.0 and Oauth oauth_callback=oob, oauth_consumer_key=hUMUUZO3Zx9zNzJ9DghcA, oauth_nonce=DA39A3EE5E6B4B0D3255BFEF95601890AFD80709, oauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1, oauth_timestamp=1277424969, oauth_version=1.0, oauth_signature=%2Ff8P1dS6QVQnYCIc10kD1%2Bm2DkI %3D using objhttp.Open POST, https://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token;, False objhttp.setRequestHeader Content-type, application/x-www-form- urlencoded objhttp.setRequestHeader Authorization, strsend objhttp.send() Not working, how can I see the stream that is being loaded...or debug this... and strsend is Oauth and appended by the very first string up on top in this email Cant see the problem... Please help, if you can see anything outright off or wrong... Regards, Shob -- Matt Harris Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/themattharris
