I had to do the same thing for something I am working on, it's not very ideal, but it seems to be the only way to get the job done.
There is supposed to be a second type of OAuth that allows that sort of one-way communication (basically the same thing but without the user's tokens), but it seems that no one has implemented that (and I can't remember the name they gave it). On Aug 9, 10:39 pm, "russ.au" <russell.say...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Let's say I'm writing a read only app - you come to my website enter > someones twitter name, and I give you some statistics about them. I > can get all the stats I need by making anon calls to the REST api from > my webserver. > > The API docs say "Anonymous calls are based on the IP of the host and > are permitted 150 requests per hour", where as "OAuth calls are > permitted 350 requests per hour". > > If my app gets popular enough I'd like to make as many calls as I > can. What is the protocol here? Should I create a twitter account > just for my app, take this account through the OAuth process, and use > this account's "access token" for all my requests? > > Thanks, > Russ
