[twitter-dev] OAuth confusion
Hello all, I'm writing a desktop client for very specific people i.e. only the staff of my website - I'd like to be able to access the API using my app, which is registered, and for it to say via LateMusic.org under the tweet. What I don't want to do is have the user authenticate before typing the tweet - I just want them to be able to tweet. How do I do this using OAuth and PHP? Many thanks Edd -- To unsubscribe, reply using remove me as the subject.
Re: [twitter-dev] OAuth confusion
In order for those members of your staff to tweet and have the source of LateMusic.org to surface on the site, you'll have to use OAuth or a variation on OAuth we support called xAuth. By sending an email to a...@twitter.com, you can apply for xAuth access -- it allows you to exchange logins and passwords from your desktop application for OAuth access tokens which would be used for the rest of the way. All users you'd like to tweet from your application will need to enter account credentials in some form or another, either using xAuth or by using the out-of-band PIN code OAuth flow. Find out more about xAuth here: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-oauth-access_token-for-xAuth Taylor Singletary Developer Advocate, Twitter http://twitter.com/episod On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Edward Caine eddjca...@googlemail.comwrote: Hello all, I'm writing a desktop client for very specific people i.e. only the staff of my website - I'd like to be able to access the API using my app, which is registered, and for it to say via LateMusic.org under the tweet. What I don't want to do is have the user authenticate before typing the tweet - I just want them to be able to tweet. How do I do this using OAuth and PHP? Many thanks Edd -- To unsubscribe, reply using remove me as the subject.
Re: [twitter-dev] OAuth confusion
Use oauth to get an access token. Once you've gotten the access token by the user approving the app to act on their behalf, that user need not be authenticated again. You only need the access token that you got through the original oAuth handshake. On 3/31/2010 3:59 PM, Edward Caine wrote: Hello all, I'm writing a desktop client for very specific people i.e. only the staff of my website - I'd like to be able to access the API using my app, which is registered, and for it to say via LateMusic.org under the tweet. What I don't want to do is have the user authenticate before typing the tweet - I just want them to be able to tweet. How do I do this using OAuth and PHP? Many thanks Edd -- To unsubscribe, reply using remove me as the subject.
Re: [twitter-dev] OAuth confusion
Also worth mentioning that you can use a number of tools or libraries to acquire those access tokens on your employee's behalf -- it doesn't have to be your desktop application. My OAuth Dancer tool ( http://bit.ly/oauth-dancer ) is a very easy way to negotiate access tokens which you can then literally just store in your private-label application (both the oauth_token and the oauth_secret). Though there are even easier ways of accomplishing the same. Taylor Singletary Developer Advocate, Twitter http://twitter.com/episod On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:09 PM, BJ Weschke bwesc...@btwtech.com wrote: Use oauth to get an access token. Once you've gotten the access token by the user approving the app to act on their behalf, that user need not be authenticated again. You only need the access token that you got through the original oAuth handshake. On 3/31/2010 3:59 PM, Edward Caine wrote: Hello all, I'm writing a desktop client for very specific people i.e. only the staff of my website - I'd like to be able to access the API using my app, which is registered, and for it to say via LateMusic.org under the tweet. What I don't want to do is have the user authenticate before typing the tweet - I just want them to be able to tweet. How do I do this using OAuth and PHP? Many thanks Edd -- To unsubscribe, reply using remove me as the subject.
