[twitter-dev] OAuth Additions

2010-02-09 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Two additions to OAuth that will be very helpful: 1) When a user removes the application from their connections, Twitter should make a callback to my system so that I can delete the account from my DB. 2) There should be a call my system can make to remove the app from the user's connections,

[twitter-dev] Questions regarding earliest search date

2010-02-09 Thread eco_bach
Hi What is the earliest search date? If I use this date, do I need to remove any date limited search parameters from my query string, such as filter and lang to avoid getting an error?

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter.com Help

2010-02-09 Thread Jamie McElwain
Okay, thanks anyway! On Feb 8, 9:52 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: http://twitter.com/?status=testsource=tweetie It only works for old source parameters though. New ones from OAuth applications will not work. Abraham On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 10:42, Jamie McElwain

Re: [twitter-dev] Link to Individual DM

2010-02-09 Thread Pedro Junior
*No way. DM is private. * - Pedro Junior 2010/2/8 Jesse Stay jesses...@gmail.com On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 6:09 PM, John Meyer john.l.me...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/8/2010 5:26 PM, Jesse Stay wrote: I'm trying to find a format that allows me to link directly to individual DMs on Twitter - is

[twitter-dev] Re: Seesmic Look and the Source parameter

2010-02-09 Thread mynetx
And where’s the announced post by Raffi? http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/msg/56cd59f6d5a57db9 On Feb 8, 6:39 pm, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: The info you're looking for is in this thread:

[twitter-dev] Re: oAuth and more users?

2010-02-09 Thread _Bensn
Hm... that's bad, very bad! why is it not possible, the users download our application, login with there twitter account, and it works? (with.. from my app parameter). is it possible, to get a explicit source parameter? On 8 Feb., 18:55, John Meyer john.l.me...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/8/2010 7:25

[twitter-dev] Re: oAuth and more users?

2010-02-09 Thread _Bensn
Where can they create there own keys? here - https://twitter.com/apps/new ? On 8 Feb., 18:55, John Meyer john.l.me...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/8/2010 7:25 AM, _Bensn wrote: Hi there, is it possible to develope a twitter application which uses oauth and it can be used by more different users

[twitter-dev] OAuth for softwares

2010-02-09 Thread Thomas
Hello, still no OAuth solution for softwares (not web apps) ?

[twitter-dev] google app engine and search api

2010-02-09 Thread enes akar
Hi; I have just launched a web site that uses twitter search api. I deployed it to Google app engine But there is a problem. I take You have been rate limited. Enhance your calm. in some of my requests. It is impossible to exceed rate limits because I have just launched the app, so there is no

[twitter-dev] Authorization with OAuth

2010-02-09 Thread kioa2002
When I try to use OAuth to authorization, I receive a response 401 Unauthorized. Here is source code. http://bokenasu.dyndns.org/repos/ktoa.py (I using RequestToken and TokenStorage class.) What's the problem? Please show me why authorization fails.

Re: [twitter-dev] OAuth for softwares

2010-02-09 Thread John Meyer
On 2/9/2010 3:57 AM, Thomas wrote: Hello, still no OAuth solution for softwares (not web apps) ? There is oAuth for desktop and mobile software. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-oauth-authorize You may not like the fact that you have to integrate a web page, but it

Re: [twitter-dev] OAuth for softwares

2010-02-09 Thread TJ Luoma
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:26 AM, John Meyer john.l.me...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/9/2010 3:57 AM, Thomas wrote: Hello, still no OAuth solution for softwares (not web apps) ? There is oAuth for desktop and mobile software.

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: oAuth and more users?

2010-02-09 Thread ryan alford
Your users should not be required to get their own consumer key and consumer secret. Ryan Sent from my DROID On Feb 9, 2010 10:04 AM, _Bensn benjaminroh...@t-online.de wrote: Where can they create there own keys? here - https://twitter.com/apps/new ? On 8 Feb., 18:55, John Meyer

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: oAuth and more users?

2010-02-09 Thread John Meyer
On 2/9/2010 9:20 AM, ryan alford wrote: Your users should not be required to get their own consumer key and consumer secret. Ryan Sent from my DROID On Feb 9, 2010 10:04 AM, _Bensn benjaminroh...@t-online.de mailto:benjaminroh...@t-online.de wrote: Where can they create there own keys? here

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: oAuth and more users?

2010-02-09 Thread ryan alford
Yes it does seem backwards. I made my statement because the link he gave was for application consumer keys, not the OAuth tokens. Ryan Sent from my DROID On Feb 9, 2010 11:27 AM, John Meyer john.l.me...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/9/2010 9:20 AM, ryan alford wrote: Your users should not be

[twitter-dev] X-Twitter-Client header is not working

2010-02-09 Thread Sagar Tambe
Can i use X-Twitter-Client header for adding status updates? I have tried a lot but its not working. I have sent a source parameter in post body as well as array('X-Twitter-Client'='Justmeans','X-Twitter- Client-Version'='1.1','X-Twitter-Client-URL'='http:// www.justmeans.com'). Is there any

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Seesmic Look and the Source parameter

2010-02-09 Thread Raffi Krikorian
in progress :P On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 12:18 AM, mynetx myne...@googlemail.com wrote: And where’s the announced post by Raffi? http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/msg/56cd59f6d5a57db9 On Feb 8, 6:39 pm, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: The info you're looking

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: oAuth and more users?

2010-02-09 Thread John Meyer
On 2/9/2010 8:09 AM, _Bensn wrote: @ John Meyer - thanks for editing my post with the url. Is it right, every user who wants to use our application must at first register the application? Yeah. It might be construed as more effort than a basic authentication, but I don't believe it is that

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: oAuth and more users?

2010-02-09 Thread Raffi Krikorian
in fact, it shouldn't be that much more effort - just use an appropriate library for your platform. On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 8:53 AM, John Meyer john.l.me...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/9/2010 8:09 AM, _Bensn wrote: @ John Meyer - thanks for editing my post with the url. Is it right, every user who

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: oAuth and more users?

2010-02-09 Thread ryan alford
So you are saying that the user of a third party application must register a completely new consumer key and consumer secret? So when TweetDeck goes to OAuth, every user will create their own consumer key and consumer secret, therefore, having 10s of thousands of TweetDeck applications

[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API in PHP - Any examples or advice?

2010-02-09 Thread Jason Striegel
Thought I'd chime in here and add my support for Phrirehose - Fenn, nice work! We just did our first test-run with Phirehose on Sunday to track all of the traffic related to Super Bowl ads. At peak, it was pulling a consistent 120 tweets/sec with ease. We were only limited by our account's

[twitter-dev] Re: listed count?

2010-02-09 Thread Orian Marx (@orian)
This issue was first brought up Nov 10 on the issue tracker but of course no response from the Twitter team. http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1186 On Feb 8, 6:26 pm, waukesha_area waukesha.a...@gmail.com wrote: Is it possible to get a count of how many lists a user belongs

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: oAuth and more users?

2010-02-09 Thread John Meyer
On 2/9/2010 10:03 AM, ryan alford wrote: So you are saying that the user of a third party application must register a completely new consumer key and consumer secret? Again, you have your terminology wrong. They get a completely new set of oAuth tokens. Same as the fact that every user of

Re: [twitter-dev] google app engine and search api

2010-02-09 Thread John Kalucki
All traffic coming from Google App engine appears as the same IP address. We cannot whitelist this IP, as we'd be instantly flooded with abuse from GAE. Shared infrastructure hosting is often inappropriate for interacting with non-authenticated web services due to this intractable abuse conundrum.

Re: [twitter-dev] OAuth Additions

2010-02-09 Thread Ryan Sarver
Dewald, 1) good idea 2) also a good idea 3) tons :) On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 5:28 AM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: Two additions to OAuth that will be very helpful: 1) When a user removes the application from their connections, Twitter should make a callback to my system so that I

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Seesmic Look and the Source parameter

2010-02-09 Thread Ryan Sarver
Raffi, has walking pneumonia so we're giving him a few days slack time and we're afraid of what he would write while on meds :) On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: in progress :P On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 12:18 AM, mynetx myne...@googlemail.com wrote: And

[twitter-dev] sick Raffi was Re: Seesmic Look and the Source parameter

2010-02-09 Thread Cameron Kaiser
Raffi, has walking pneumonia so we're giving him a few days slack time and we're afraid of what he would write while on meds :) D'oh. Raffi, get well soon! -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Seesmic Look and the Source parameter

2010-02-09 Thread Isaiah Carew
I check this topic about 10 times a day hoping for an update. To say I'm excited about this, doesn't really come close. I have my code prepped and ready for whenever this lands. But I think we can all wait Raffi to get better. Health trumps all things. And rightly so. @raffi Take it

[twitter-dev] Re: listed count?

2010-02-09 Thread Quy
Why don't you just simply retrieve the HTML for the user's twitter profile page and look for id=lists_count and just grab the number in this tag. That's what I'm doing now. Of course, Twitter could change the HTML on this page but they probably won't do it often. Quy On Feb 9, 9:20 am, Orian

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: listed count?

2010-02-09 Thread Cameron Kaiser
Why don't you just simply retrieve the HTML for the user's twitter profile page and look for id=lists_count and just grab the number in this tag. That's what I'm doing now. Of course, Twitter could change the HTML on this page but they probably won't do it often. Screen scraping is an

[twitter-dev] Re: listed count?

2010-02-09 Thread Quy
Why would my IP get banned - the API allows developers to retrieve almost every piece of data from user's twitter profiles so developers don't need to scrape. I think if it's a closed site and they want to protect content, then I can understand IP banning but if it's an open system like Twitter, I

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: listed count?

2010-02-09 Thread Cameron Kaiser
Why would my IP get banned - the API allows developers to retrieve almost every piece of data from user's twitter profiles so developers don't need to scrape. I think if it's a closed site and they want to protect content, then I can understand IP banning but if it's an open system like

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: listed count?

2010-02-09 Thread Kevin Marshall
Why can't you just use http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-GET-list-memberships to get the lists the user is listed on...and just do a counter as you go through them? It might require a few extra service calls, but at the moment that seems like the most 'appropriate' way to

Re: [twitter-dev] Link to Individual DM

2010-02-09 Thread Jesse Stay
Pedro, where did I say it wasn't private? Jesse On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Pedro Junior v.ju.ni.o...@gmail.com wrote: *No way. DM is private. * - Pedro Junior 2010/2/8 Jesse Stay jesses...@gmail.com On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 6:09 PM, John Meyer john.l.me...@gmail.com wrote: On

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: listed count?

2010-02-09 Thread Abraham Williams
On the TODO list: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/515733c625904ed8/ Another reason to to screen scrape is that building an entire HTML page uses a lot more resources then just returning XML/json. On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:19, Orian Marx (@orian)

Re: [twitter-dev] X-Twitter-Client header is not working

2010-02-09 Thread Josh Roesslein
Twitter no longer allows you to set the source attribute of updates any more via basic authentication. You must use OAuth authentication. Josh On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Sagar Tambe sagar.path...@gmail.com wrote: Can i use X-Twitter-Client header for adding status updates? I have tried a

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Any iPhone Twitter apps with OAuth login ?

2010-02-09 Thread Mark McBride
We pushed fixes to the mobile OAuth page last night that should have fixed the page on BlackBerry devices. Please let us know if you still see issues. ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Fabien Penso fabienpe...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 4:20 PM,

Re: [twitter-dev] Authorization with OAuth

2010-02-09 Thread Josh Roesslein
Chances are your signing if incorrect. You might want to check out this existing OAuth library [1] for python. Even if you don't use it, check out the source to see how it goes about signing. I have used this library with success. If you have any questions about it, I can probably help there.

[twitter-dev] Is Twitter Search limited to past 7 days only?

2010-02-09 Thread eco_bach
Hi This is related to a previous post but since I haven't received any response wanted to make a new post. Is Twitter Search API limited to past 7 days only? Or does it vary according to the actual hashtags, search terms used?

[twitter-dev] OAuth Authorize 404

2010-02-09 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Is anyone else also getting intermittent 404 errors on https://twitter.com/oauth/authorize?

[twitter-dev] Re: Link to Individual DM

2010-02-09 Thread Dewald Pretorius
So, Jesse, what you're looking for is the equivalent of http://twitter.com/username/status/nn, except a DM must be displayed, and it must only shown if the DM belongs to the logged in user (is in the user's inbox or sent items)? On Feb 9, 12:11 am, Jesse Stay jesses...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [twitter-dev] Digest for twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com - 25 Messages in 8 Topics

2010-02-09 Thread ID Tweet
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[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth Additions

2010-02-09 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Ryan, Re 1) It will probably work best if one can enter a separate URL where the revoked callbacks must be sent. This will also require some type of call authentication method, so that some joker can't figure out one's callback URL and send you a bunch of fake revokes and cause you to

Re: [twitter-dev] Is Twitter Search limited to past 7 days only?

2010-02-09 Thread Ed Costello
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 3:31 PM, eco_bach bac...@gmail.com wrote: Is Twitter Search API limited to past 7 days only? Yes, search results are limited to seven days. See http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-Search-API-Method%3A-search -- -ed costello

Re: [twitter-dev] google app engine and search api

2010-02-09 Thread enes akar
Does the search functionality exist in REST API, which have on account based rate limit? Or will I have see similar limitation if I use Rest api instead search api? App Engine has different datastore system and some other differences so it is not so easy to migrate the app. And also app engine is

[twitter-dev] More OAuth Change Please - Simple Stuff

2010-02-09 Thread Dewald Pretorius
1) On https://twitter.com/oauth/authorize, can you make it more clear and evident what is the account you're logged into if you're already logged in. At present it is hidden in the text. Will be better if it is in a heading and you show the user's avatar as well. I know already how many people are

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth Additions

2010-02-09 Thread Dewald Pretorius
How is it an invasion of privacy? Are you concerned that an app developer will experience bouts of deep depression every time someone removes his/her app, and fire up his chainsaw? On Feb 9, 5:28 pm, John Meyer john.l.me...@gmail.com wrote: Is this really necessary?  Unless you're web site does

[twitter-dev] Re: background url showing via api, but not on profile

2010-02-09 Thread Kyle Mulka
I think you are right about these issues. The third one you mentioned I think should be fixed in the API: - uploading a new background image via the API does not cause the image to be displayed I just filed this ticket: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1443 -- Kyle Mulka

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Link to Individual DM

2010-02-09 Thread Jesse Stay
Dewald, exactly, although I don't think it exists. On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: So, Jesse, what you're looking for is the equivalent of http://twitter.com/username/status/nn, except a DM must be displayed, and it must only shown if the DM

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth Additions

2010-02-09 Thread @epc
Could #1 be satisfied by an appropriate error message from the API when you try to do something with an oAuth’d account?

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth Additions

2010-02-09 Thread Dewald Pretorius
The API is already kicking back a 401 when you try to use tokens that have been revoked. But despite that, I'd prefer not to have to make unnecessary API calls, and hope for the best that the 401 actually means revoked tokens as opposed to the Twitter system stepping on its own shoelaces, or my

[twitter-dev] Re: How Does TwittPic Works ?

2010-02-09 Thread raffi
hi - i'm still a bit behind, but i've posted a sample workflow of how identity delegation may work in oauth - this is definitely a RFC, so please feel free to comment. http://mehack.com/a-proposal-for-delegation-in-oauth-identity-v On Feb 4, 6:33 pm, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote:

[twitter-dev] Re: More OAuth Change Please - Simple Stuff

2010-02-09 Thread @epc
Making Allow a default on a security authorization page seems to be asking for trouble later. At present the Deny button is of type submit. They can't use reset as that won't send anything back to twitter (unless you add some sort of event via Jquery). Deny doesn’t appear to be the default,

[twitter-dev] Advanced search query string alternatives

2010-02-09 Thread eco_bach
Hi I'm confused about the differences in query string parameters if you use the advanced search page vs referencing the Twitter search operators page http://search.twitter.com/operators Are both of the following equivalent? http://search.twitter.com/search?q=ands=phrase=near+city

[twitter-dev] Re: Advanced search query string alternatives

2010-02-09 Thread twitterdoug
Yes. -Doug On Feb 9, 3:27 pm, eco_bach bac...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I'm confused about the differences in query string parameters if you use the advanced search page vs referencing the Twitter search operators pagehttp://search.twitter.com/operators Are both of the following equivalent?

[twitter-dev] Re: More OAuth Change Please - Simple Stuff

2010-02-09 Thread Dewald Pretorius
I don't see how Allow being the default can be a security issue. The user is specifically sent to that page for the purpose of granting access. Only a minuscule number of users will need to click the Deny button. But, I think you're right that the real issue is that the Deny button is the first

[twitter-dev] A proposal for delegation in OAuth identity verification

2010-02-09 Thread Raffi Krikorian
hi all. i apologise that i'm running behind on getting these out, but i've put out the first in a series of blog posts regarding what twitter is doing with oauth moving forward -- this one, specifically, is a RFC around delegation in OAuth identity verification. a total mouthful, i know, so it

[twitter-dev] OAuth Recommendation - Nice To Have

2010-02-09 Thread Dewald Pretorius
If one already knows the screen_name of the account for which you're requesting authorization, it will be really great if: 1) One can send the screen_name along with the redirect. 2) Then Twitter can automatically log the person out if he is not logged into the target account, and he's then

Re: [twitter-dev] A proposal for delegation in OAuth identity verification

2010-02-09 Thread Michael Steuer
Hi Raffi, Very pleased that this went out... I've been pushing for this on this list for quite a while now... Let us know if you need any help in any way... As a side note - TweetPhoto has claimed on this list that they have some sort of oAuth delegation live?? I haven't played with it yet, but

Re: [twitter-dev] A proposal for delegation in OAuth identity verification

2010-02-09 Thread Raffi Krikorian
Very pleased that this went out... I've been pushing for this on this list for quite a while now... Let us know if you need any help in any way... i think the biggest thing is just to comment on it, or let me know that it makes sense. this is relatively easy for us to implement, but we

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Any iPhone Twitter apps with OAuth login ?

2010-02-09 Thread Fabien Penso
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Mark McBride mmcbr...@twitter.com wrote: We pushed fixes to the mobile OAuth page last night that should have fixed the page on BlackBerry devices.  Please let us know if you still see issues. Mark, Can I suggest to make the allow/deny button a bit larger?

RE: [twitter-dev] A proposal for delegation in OAuth identity verification

2010-02-09 Thread Brian Smith
In the example, would the user have to grant TwitPic access to his account? I would like to be able to assure TwitPic about the user's identity without the user having to grant TwitPic any read or read/write access to his account. Why does the delegator need to send the service provider

Re: [twitter-dev] OAuth Additions

2010-02-09 Thread Abraham Williams
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 05:28, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: Two additions to OAuth that will be very helpful: 1) When a user removes the application from their connections, Twitter should make a callback to my system so that I can delete the account from my DB. Your application

Re: [twitter-dev] OAuth Additions

2010-02-09 Thread Raffi Krikorian
2) There should be a call my system can make to remove the app from the user's connections, typically in the case where the user deletes his account from my system. I am strongly against this. I don't like the idea that an application can act on my behalf then disappear. Any authorized

Re: [twitter-dev] A proposal for delegation in OAuth identity verification

2010-02-09 Thread Harshad RJ
I posted a response on the blog which I am copy-pasting here: If the intention is to just delegate identity, this can be achieved more easily with what is available today: The Consumer, prepares a verify-credentials HTTP request, signed with its OAuth token, and passes this URL to the

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth Additions

2010-02-09 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Raffi, I see your and Abraham's point. From that perspective I agree regarding 2. On Feb 9, 11:09 pm, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: 2) There  should be a call my system can make to remove the app from the user's connections, typically in the case where the user deletes his

Re: [twitter-dev] OAuth Additions

2010-02-09 Thread Harshad RJ
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 05:28, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: Two additions to OAuth that will be very helpful: 1) When a user removes the application from their connections, Twitter should make a callback

[twitter-dev] Connection Refused Galore

2010-02-09 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Is anyone else also experiencing tons of connection refuses on statuses/update?

Re: [twitter-dev] A proposal for delegation in OAuth identity verification

2010-02-09 Thread Raffi Krikorian
hi all. thanks so much for the conversation so far! its been great. i've taken a bunch of the comments and incorporated them into a newer version http://mehack.com/a-proposal-for-delegation-in-oauth-identity-v-0 let's continue to tear this apart. On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Harshad RJ

[twitter-dev] Re: Connection Refused Galore

2010-02-09 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Sorry. False alarm. I screwed something up in my Twitter library. On Feb 10, 1:20 am, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: Is anyone else also experiencing tons of connection refuses on statuses/update?

[twitter-dev] Twitter Engineering Blog

2010-02-09 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Really very cool. http://engineering.twitter.com/

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: How Does TwittPic Works ?

2010-02-09 Thread Jesse Stay
So am I understanding this correctly that this means TwitPic won't have to ask for the user's Twitter username and Password any more and will instead be able to use OAuth and still provide an API to their users? I'm trying to figure out if this is encouraging the use of the username and password