Hi, pls excuse the top post. Using Christian's suggestion I created a so-called Twitter app and received a consumer key and a consumer secret.
Plugging in the consumer key and secret at the command line: java -jar twitter4j-2.0.10.jar -Dtwitter4j.oauth.consumerKey=[mykey] -Dtwitter4j.oauth.consumerSecret=[mysecret] twitter4j.examples.OAuthUpdate "Hello World" only returns the following: Twitter4J 2.0.10 Studying the Pebble code in twitter4j.examples.OAuthUpdate.java I don't even understand where the string above is returned so obviously the twitter4j.jar is broken and is definitely not supported by Twitter. The only thing I found supported by Twitter for Java is the old kenai.com project hosting now defunct: http://kenai.com/projects/twitterapime/pages/Home So answering my own post it appears James is right and there exists no straight up API from twitter to perform any type of communication w/ Twitter. There appears to be Ruby, C#, PHP, et. al. support but no Java. On 01/01/2013 11:13 AM, David Brown wrote: > Hi Christian, thnx for the reply. > > However, I'm more conflicted then b4 posting this. > > Please see below my response to some of your comments. > > This is what I have to study this issue: > > * A local clone of Pebble from github: > https://github.com/pebbleblog/pebble (thanks to James Pebble is much > easier to work with than in the past). > > * Running: mvn:site run at the command line spits out this: Building > Pebble 2.6.5-SNAPSHOT > > * I have the Pebble clone in my Intellij and this is what I have found > under Project:External Libraries: > ** The twitter4j-2.0.10.jar > ** package twitter4j.examples > ** public class OAuthUpdate > > The class OAuthUpdate method main() has a usage comment that references > your suggestions below: > > Usage: java -Dtwitter4j.oauth.consumerKey=[consumer key] > -Dtwitter4j.oauth.consumerSecret=[consumer secret] > twitter4j.examples.OAuthUpdate [message] > > Though the example code does not look like what you have provided below. > > I'm tempted to attempt running the OAuthUpdate main to see what happens > if I can acquire the tokens from Twitter as specified below. > > If I can get the Pebble/Twitter example to work then I would like to > create a git branch (I'm using gitflow) to tinker with this issue in an > effort to get it to work. > > The original author was: Yusuke Yamamoto. > > Maybe someone can chime in. > > Regards, David. > > > On 01/01/2013 07:32 AM, Christian Bockermann wrote: >> Hi David, >> >> the UI way is definitely not the only solution. A few weeks ago I worked >> with the twitter API for crawling purposes and had to connect my code to >> their API. I used the 'scribe' library to accomplish the oauth stuff. >> >> The only needed pieces have been the 'consumerKey', 'consumerSecret' and >> the application tokens 'accessToken' and 'accessTokenSecret'. The UI way >> you mentioned is *one* way to obtain a temporary accessToken+secret. >> >> However, you can log into the twitter developer API and create a new >> application for yourself. This application will then be equipped with a >> permanent access token+secret that you can further use in your API: >> >> >> // create a new OAuth service >> // >> authService = new ServiceBuilder().provider(TwitterApi.class) >> .apiKey(consumerKey) >> .apiSecret(consumerSecret) >> .build(); >> >> // if you already have the accessToken+secret from the developer >> // API you're done: >> // >> Token token = new Token(accessToken, accessTokenSecret); >> >> >> Then I accessed the twitter REST API directly. For sure, that's not >> as convenient as it should be, but at least it's a way to access Twitter >> without the UI solution. >> >> >> I haven't looked into the pebble code for a long time and do not know >> much about it. If it uses the twitter4j library directly, it will be >> difficult to modify it. If there is a thin custom layer in between, it >> might be possible to extend it with scribd. > I went to scribd.com (wrong site?). > I'm not the most up-to-date tech guy but I don't see any hint of an API > or library at scribd (sorry). >> Happy new year to all! >> >> Chris >> >> >> >> >> Am 01.01.2013 um 05:47 schrieb David Brown <[email protected]>: >> >>> Hi James. Thnx for the reply. I anticipated this answer. Unfortunate. >>> Looking into the Fb and twitter APIs it appears their UI way is the only >>> solution. >>> >>> James Roper <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Pebbles support for posting to Twitter was implemented before Twitter >>> introduced their oauth only authentication policy. It still tries to use a >>> username and password, which Twitter now disallows, hence it simply won't >>> work. A few years ago I had a look at what it would take to add OAuth >>> support, and found that the Twitter library that Pebble uses doesn't >>> support OAuth, and it didn't look like it ever would. Adding OAuth support >>> would probably require rewriting that plugin, and would require >>> implementing new actions to support doing the OAuth dance to get the access >>> token from Twitter for the account you want to post with. This is no small >>> task. >>> >>> As far as I am aware, Pebble has never supported posting to Facebook. It >>> does support commenters getting their username and profile picture from >>> Facebook automatically associated with their posts, but that's all. This >>> is mostly done client side. Posting to Facebook would require server side >>> work, and would not be trivial. >>> >>> What Pebble does support is rendering social links below a blog post, this >>> includes Twitter and Facebook I think, and when you click them brings up a >>> popup from those websites that let you share the link to the blog post. >>> These links are incredibly out of date, and include links to sites that no >>> longer exist. It needs to be updated by someone who is interested in using >>> these features still. >>> >>> On 1 January 2013 12:00, David Brown <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi All, in some previous Pebble revision long ago I know that Pebble >>> would post to either FB or Twitter. >>> >>> Looking at the Pebble plugin config and the 2.6.4 sourcecode FB and >>> attemping to use a so-called FB app id it appears posting to FB might be >>> a longshot for Pebble. >>> >>> Twitter on the otherhand appears more likely to work since I have been >>> able to get some Pebble logs feedback. >>> >>> If anyone has something to say about the logs posted below please advise. >>> >>> Thanks in advance, David. >>> >>> ************************************************************************************************ >>> Jan 1, 2013 12:51:40 AM >>> net.sourceforge.pebble.event.blogentry.PostToTwitterBlogEntryListener >>> getProperty >>> SEVERE: Twitter credentials (url) not found. Please configure >>> twitter.url in order to post to twitter >>> Jan 1, 2013 12:51:41 AM >>> net.sourceforge.pebble.event.blogentry.PostToTwitterBlogEntryListener >>> getProperty >>> SEVERE: Twitter credentials (simulate) not found. Please configure >>> twitter.simulate in order to post to twitter >>> Jan 1, 2013 12:51:43 AM >>> net.sourceforge.pebble.webservice.UpdateNotificationPingsClient$UpdateNotificationPingsAsyncCallback >>> handleResult >>> >>> ************************************************************************************************ >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Master SQL Server Development, Administration, T-SQL, SSAS, SSIS, SSRS >>> and more. 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