Re: Why is authentication required to get follower info?
On Nov 21, 6:41 pm, Alex Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please see the documentation athttp://apiwiki.twitter.com/REST+API+Documentation. You need to provide HTTP Basic Auth credentials when requesting thefollowersof another user. But why? Amir On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 15:31, Amir Michail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, curlhttp://twitter.com/statuses/followers/amichail.rss yields ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? hash request/statuses/followers/amichail.rss/request errorCould not authenticate you./error /hash Amir -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x
Re: Why is authentication required to get follower info?
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Amir Michail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 21, 6:41 pm, Alex Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please see the documentation athttp:// apiwiki.twitter.com/REST+API+Documentation. You need to provide HTTP Basic Auth credentials when requesting thefollowersof another user. But why? Amir I'm guessing because this mimics the behavior of the twitter website itself. You cannot see another person's followers-list without being logged into your account first. My $0.02, -Chad On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 15:31, Amir Michail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, curlhttp://twitter.com/statuses/followers/amichail.rss yields ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? hash request/statuses/followers/amichail.rss/request errorCould not authenticate you./error /hash Amir -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x
Re: Why is authentication required to get follower info?
Yup! On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:39, Chad Etzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Amir Michail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 21, 6:41 pm, Alex Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please see the documentation athttp://apiwiki.twitter.com/REST+API+Documentation. You need to provide HTTP Basic Auth credentials when requesting thefollowersof another user. But why? Amir I'm guessing because this mimics the behavior of the twitter website itself. You cannot see another person's followers-list without being logged into your account first. My $0.02, -Chad On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 15:31, Amir Michail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, curlhttp://twitter.com/statuses/followers/amichail.rss yields ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? hash request/statuses/followers/amichail.rss/request errorCould not authenticate you./error /hash Amir -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
Re: Why is authentication required to get follower info?
On Dec 4, 3:46 pm, Alex Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yup! But why? Is this done to encourage more people to sign up? Amir On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:39, Chad Etzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Amir Michail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 21, 6:41 pm, Alex Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please see the documentation athttp://apiwiki.twitter.com/REST+API+Documentation. You need to provide HTTP Basic Auth credentials when requesting thefollowersof another user. But why? Amir I'm guessing because this mimics the behavior of the twitter website itself. You cannot see another person's followers-list without being logged into your account first. My $0.02, -Chad On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 15:31, Amir Michail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, curlhttp://twitter.com/statuses/followers/amichail.rss yields ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? hash request/statuses/followers/amichail.rss/request errorCould not authenticate you./error /hash Amir -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x
Re: Why is authentication required to get follower info?
I'll admit, I'm curious about this myself. Another example is authenticating to pull a user's friends feed. With the exception of protected users, why not allow that public information to be pulled out via the API? -Original Message- From: Amir Michail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 15:23:04 To: Twitter Development Talktwitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Why is authentication required to get follower info? On Dec 4, 3:46 pm, Alex Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yup! But why? Is this done to encourage more people to sign up? Amir On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:39, Chad Etzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Amir Michail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 21, 6:41 pm, Alex Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please see the documentation athttp://apiwiki.twitter.com/REST+API+Documentation. You need to provide HTTP Basic Auth credentials when requesting thefollowersof another user. But why? Amir I'm guessing because this mimics the behavior of the twitter website itself. You cannot see another person's followers-list without being logged into your account first. My $0.02, -Chad On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 15:31, Amir Michail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, curlhttp://twitter.com/statuses/followers/amichail.rss yields ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? hash request/statuses/followers/amichail.rss/request errorCould not authenticate you./error /hash Amir -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x
Why is authentication required to get follower info?
Hi, curl http://twitter.com/statuses/followers/amichail.rss yields ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? hash request/statuses/followers/amichail.rss/request errorCould not authenticate you./error /hash Amir
Re: Why is authentication required to get follower info?
Please see the documentation at http://apiwiki.twitter.com/REST+API+Documentation. You need to provide HTTP Basic Auth credentials when requesting the followers of another user. On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 15:31, Amir Michail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, curl http://twitter.com/statuses/followers/amichail.rss yields ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? hash request/statuses/followers/amichail.rss/request errorCould not authenticate you./error /hash Amir -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
