Hi Deepak, You will have to 1) have the credentials of a user that follows a user that has protected updates (friends_timeline) or 2) have the credentials of the protected user (user_timeline) to get access to their updates.
As for your second question, unfortunately no, there is no way to receive notification progamatically that a user has requested to follow you. Is this a deal killer to you? If you can better explain what you are trying to do, I can help you find a workaround. @dougw On Feb 3, 2:32 am, Deepak <hrdeepa...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am also using APi to develop my application. I am facing a problem > with the protected user. If user protect their updates on the Twiiter > Site. I am unable to get the tweets of that person. Is there any way > to get that. Second i can't receive any notification that other person > has send you a request to foolow yon. > > Thanks, > > Deepak > > On Feb 3, 10:31 am, dougw <igu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Naveen, > > Storing user credentials is never ideal but with basic auth, > > applications that want to make occasional calls to the API must retain > > a local copy of the credentials. Each request to a credential- > > protected API method requires credentials for authentication. > > Obviously this is not ideal, but the current API model is session- > > less. > > > Your second question is yes. It will be nice, won't it? > > > @dougw > > > On Feb 2, 11:52 am, Naveen <naveen.s.sax...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I have some basic questions (I am still learning this world) regarding > > > fetching another user's timeline... > > > > 1. If basic authentication is a must to get the feed for "protected > > > updates", then does that mean that a third party website that purports > > > to fetch a user's timeline needs to store the user's id and password > > > to repeatedly provide these parameters as part of basic auth while > > > fetching the timeline? Is that what sites such as friendfeed do? Or is > > > there a way to perform a one time login and then somehow use a user > > > specific credential on a long term basis? > > > > 2. When twitter moves to using oauth, will there be a way for other > > > friend > > > networks to continuously be able to fetch a twitter user's feed after > > > first time Oauth based authorization by using the user specific token > > > on a long-term basis? > > > > Naveen
