Re: [twitter-dev] Are there anyway to retrieve user profile from twitter API

2010-03-04 Thread Raffi Krikorian
you should get some additional information on the oauth request that you could use to call users/show. however, also, if you were to call http://api.twitter.com/1/users/show.json for example, without the username in the URL, but do it using auth (sign the request using oauth), then twitter shoul

Re: [twitter-dev] Are there anyway to retrieve user profile from twitter API

2010-03-04 Thread Scott Wilcox
Are you using any libraries for the Oauth calls? On 3 Mar 2010, at 16:56, xhe wrote: > > I now want to enable user to link their twitter account to our > website, that means, after OAuth, twitter will forward user to my > website, and then I want to retrieve that user's profile, such as > twitter

Re: [twitter-dev] Are there anyway to retrieve user profile from twitter API

2010-03-04 Thread Thomas Woolway
When you get the access token back from Twitter after the OAuth step, it should also include some basic user information - including the user id, from memory. Hope this helps, Tom On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 4:56 PM, xhe wrote: > I now want to enable user to link their twitter account to our > webs

[twitter-dev] Are there anyway to retrieve user profile from twitter API

2010-03-03 Thread xhe
I now want to enable user to link their twitter account to our website, that means, after OAuth, twitter will forward user to my website, and then I want to retrieve that user's profile, such as twitterId, name..., and prefill the form for user to register. This steps is pretty straightforword, jus