HI Matt, Thanks for your response. I tried using the oauth token and secret for the x_auth_username and x_auth_password but that did not work for the 2 legged oauth that I am trying to achieve using Twitter4J so that I don't get prompted for the browser authorization that I am trying to avoid.I have sent a request to the twittter api folks about it.I am not sure if that is the right way to proceed.
Just to clarify.I have my own Twitter account and I have a web application that wants to access my Twitter account private list of followers.So, I setup a Twitter a/c and also an Application under that a/c which gave me a consumer key/secret.Now, I have a web application which accesses this Twitter a/c to get the private list of followers without prompting a Browser prompt for user authorization(server to server backend using 2 legged Oauth maybe ???) TIA, Vijay On Jun 12, 12:07 pm, Matt Harris <thematthar...@twitter.com> wrote: > Hi Vijay, > > If you only want access to your own account then you can visit the > application details for your application onhttp://dev.twitter.com/apps. On > that page you will find an option called My Access Token. This option will > display the user token and secret for you to be able to access your > application. > > Remember, this is only suited for your own account on your own application. > > Hope that helps, > Matt > > > > On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 11:06 PM, Vijay <bvija...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > Pardon my ignorance here as a 1st time poster. > > My actual requirement: > > My web app using jQuery/Juitter needs to access my twitter account's > > private List of people I am following. > > > I am trying to use a proxy service with a java servlet on the > > serverside to access the Twitter API.Basic Auth is not going to work > > and the next option was OAuth which lead me to the server-side > > solution with java/Twitter4J. > > > I need to get a Browserless authorization exchange for my web > > application.Ideally, I would like to use the Consumer key and secret > > instead of username and password but I do not want to display the > > Authorization page for the backend access from my web application to > > my twitter account via the Twitter API to happen.Curently, I am trying > > to use Twitter4J to access the API with the Consumer key and secret > > and get a 401 authentication credentials error. > > > I have looked at this post which asks to provide username and password > > in the POST.Is xAuth the option I should use for my web app to access > > my twitter account's private List of people I am following ? > > >http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-oauth-access_to... > > > Appreciate any feedback for a newcomer with Twitter. > > > Vijay > > -- > > Matt Harris > Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/themattharris
