Hi, I installed RubyGems and did this
sudo gem i twurl --sourcehttp://rubygems.org Then tried to use twurl but it gives a error : twurl: command not found Please tell me what am I missing ? Also, how do we use twurl with PHP ? cURL can be used with the PHP built in functions. Kartik On Apr 21, 12:13 am, Marcel Molina <mar...@twitter.com> wrote: > We've announced that come June 2010, Basic Auth will no longer be supported > via the Twitter API. All authenticated requests will be moving to OAuth > (either version 1.0a or the emerging 2.0 spec). There are many benefits from > this change. Aside from the obvious security improvements, having all > requests be signed with OAuth gives us far better visibility into our > traffic and allows us many more tools for controlling and limiting abuse. > When we know and trust the origin of our traffic we can loosen the reigns a > lot and trust by default. We've already made a move in this direction by > automatically increasing rate limits for requests signed with OAuth made to > the new versioned api.twitter.com host. > > One of the often cited virtues of the Twitter API is its simplicity. All you > have to do to poke around at the API is curl, for > example,http://api.twitter.com/1/users/noradio.xmland you're off and running. > When > you require that OAuth be added to the mix, you risk losing the simplicity > and low barrier to entry that curl affords you. We want to preserve this > simplicity. So we've provided two tools to let you poke around at the API > without having to fuss with all the extraneous details of OAuth. For those > who want the ease of the web, we've already included an API console in our > new developer portal athttp://dev.twitter.com/console. And now today we're > glad to make available the Twurl command line utility as open source > software: > > http://github.com/marcel/twurl > > If you already have RubyGems (http://rubygems.org/), you can install it with > the gem command: > > sudo gem i twurl --sourcehttp://rubygems.org > > If you don't have RubyGems but you have Rake (http://rake.rubyforge.org/), > you can install it "from source". Check out the INSTALL file > (http://github.com/marcel/twurl/blob/master/INSTALL). > > Once you've got it installed, start off by checking out the README > (http://github.com/marcel/twurl/blob/master/README) (you can always get the > README by running 'twurl -T'): > > +-------+ > | Twurl | > +-------+ > > Twurl is like curl, but tailored specifically for the Twitter API. > It knows how to grant an access token to a client application for > a specified user and then sign all requests with that access token. > > It also provides other development and debugging conveniences such > as defining aliases for common requests, as well as support for > multiple access tokens to easily switch between different client > applications and Twitter accounts. > > +-----------------+ > | Getting Started | > +-----------------+ > > The first thing you have to do is register an OAuth application > to get a consumer key and secret. > > http://dev.twitter.com/apps/new > > When you have your consumer key and its secret you authorize > your Twitter account to make API requests with your consumer key > and secret. > > % twurl authorize --consumer-key the_key \ > --consumer-secret the_secret > > This will return an URL that you should open up in your browser. > Authenticate to Twitter, and then enter the returned PIN back into > the terminal. Assuming all that works well, you will beauthorized > to make requests with the API. Twurl will tell you as much. > > If your consumer application has xAuth enabled, then you can use > a variant of the above > > % twurl authorize -u username -p password \ > --consumer-key the_key \ > --consumer-secret the_secret > > And, again assuming your username, password, key and secret is > correct, will authorize you in one step. > > +-----------------+ > | Making Requests | > +-----------------+ > > The simplest request just requires that you specify the path you > want to request. > > % twurl /1/statuses/home_timeline.xml > > Similar to curl, a GET request is performed by default. > > You can implicitly perform a POST request by passing the -d option, > which specifies POST parameters. > > % twurl -d 'status=Testing twurl' /1/statuses/update.xml > > You can explicitly specify what request method to perform with > the -X (or --request-method) option. > > % twurl -X DELETE /1/statuses/destroy/123456.xml > > +------------------+ > | Creating aliases | > +------------------+ > > % twurl alias h /1/statuses/home_timeline.xml > > You can then use "h" in place of the full path. > > % twurl h > > Paths that require additional options such as request parameters for example > can > be used with aliases the same as with full explicit paths, just as you might > expect. > > % twurl alias tweet /1/statuses/update.xml > % twurl tweet -d "status=Aliases in twurl are convenient" > > +-------------------------------+ > | Changing your default profile | > +-------------------------------+ > > The first time you authorize a client application to make requests on behalf > of your account, twurl stores your access token information in its .twurlrc > file. Subsequent requests will use this profile as the default profile. You > can use the 'accounts' subcommand to see what client applications have been > authorized for what user names: > > % twurl accounts > noradio > HQsAGcBm5MQT4n6j7qVJw > hhC7Koy2zRsTZvQh1hVlSA (default) > testiverse > guT9RsJbNQgVe6AwoY9BA > > Notice that one of those consumer keys is marked as the default. To change > the default use the 'set' subcommand, passing then either just the username, > if it's unambiguous, or the username and consumer key pair if it isn't > unambiguous: > > % twurl set default testiverse > % twurl accounts > noradio > HQsAGcBm5MQT4n6j7qVJw > hhC7Koy2zRsTZvQh1hVlSA > testiverse > guT9RsJbNQgVe6AwoY9BA (default) > > % twurl set default noradio HQsAGcBm5MQT4n6j7qVJw > % twurl accounts > noradio > HQsAGcBm5MQT4n6j7qVJw (default) > hhC7Koy2zRsTZvQh1hVlSA > testiverse > guT9RsJbNQgVe6AwoY9BA > > +--------------+ > | Contributors | > +--------------+ > > Marcel Molina <mar...@twitter.com> / @noradio > Raffi Krikorian <ra...@twitter.com> / @raffi > > -- > Marcel Molina > Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/noradio > > -- > Subscription > settings:http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en
