[twitter-dev] Twitter - XAuth

Dear Twitter, I have used XAuth authentication used for my application. I have implemented twitter client in C# on 1 month ago , Now these days I got gateway error first time logging. Next time logging no pblm. I have no changed in code side. If any updation in XAuth authentication mechanism. In m

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Help with xAuth and PHP

Nah, it's actually quite easy, you just need to know where to look. Almost all OAuth issues are with generating the Base String. This tool can help you validate yours: Tom On 9/7/10 1:28 AM, hgc2002 wrote: > That's a very good way to avoid helping, and to waste t

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter - XAuth

On 9/7/10 9:11 AM, Georgooty varghese wrote: > Dear Twitter, > > I have used XAuth authentication used for my application. I have > implemented twitter client in C# on 1 month ago , Now these days I got > gateway error first time logging. Just write some code to handle 500 errors - they happen a

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter - XAuth

Hi, Thanks for your reply. How to handle 500 error. I have post a tweet into twitter in english using my twitter client.But I couldn't be able to post a tweet in malayalam/arabi. Could u please explain me, how to encode url for that. Regards, George On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Tom van der W

[twitter-dev] Re: Obtain email address after authentication

Twitter has distinguished itself as a "minimally invasive" social network. The API gives you the ability to replicate and build on the communication model appreciated by Twitter users. It's about brevity, it's lightweight and of course you can reach your followers inbox by direct messaging, if the

Re: [twitter-dev] Password in a source

Hi everybody, thanks for responses..I'll proceed in that way, closing the lib with keys and opening source remaining... Regards 2010/9/6 Julio Biason : > On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Tom van der Woerdt wrote: >> I'm not 100% sure, but I'd assume that the license doesn't apply to the >> crea

[twitter-dev] help with accessing the streaming api

def run (self): status_url = "http://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.json"; request = urllib2.Request(status_url) print request auth = base64.encodestring('Consumer key:Consumer secret')[:-1] request.add_header('Authorization', 'basic %s' % auth) firehose = urllib2.urlo

[twitter-dev] C# and OAuth

i'm using OAuthBase.cs from oauth.googlecode.com for generate signature. public static void Status_Update() {   OAuthBase oAuth = new OAuthBase();      string consumerKey = "My consumer key ";   string consumerSecret = " My consumer secret ";   string oauth_token = " token "

[twitter-dev] Problems with parameter since_id

Hi Guys, Well, I'm trying to use home_timeline with parameter since_id, but is not working if I use max_id, works well, but if I use since_id not work http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/home_timeline.xml?max_id=54321 (this works) http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/home_timeline.xml?since_id=12345

Re: [twitter-dev] help with accessing the streaming api

Dont you know that the BasicAuth has been disabled for good? -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to

Re: [twitter-dev] help with accessing the streaming api

Not for Streams. Tom On 9/7/10 1:52 PM, Lenin wrote: > Dont you know that the BasicAuth has been disabled for good? > > -- > Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc > API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi > Issues/Enhancements Tracker: > http:

Re: [twitter-dev] C# and OAuth

I'd like to see the actual code instead of the stuff you posted. :-) Tom On 9/7/10 11:47 AM, sashka wrote: > i'm using OAuthBase.cs from oauth.googlecode.com for generate > signature. > color="black">public color="#ff">static void > Status_Update() > { >   OAuthBase oAuth = color=

[twitter-dev] profile image upload 500 error

Hi guys! I am try to upload image for profile. i check the Post, multipart, oauth sign, image to byte[], but 500 error return what miss i take? -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements T

[twitter-dev] Streaming API

Hi All, I am a bit torn on which API to use for my application. Have looked in twitter dev pages and did search internet but couldn't find comprehensive information. I need to get tweets from certain users in my application. I don't know how many users at this moment but I would like to build a s

Re: [twitter-dev] Streaming API

1) Yes: the timelines are easier to use and more flexible, while the streaming API gives you realtime statuses and no problems with rate limits. 2) Streams. I'm not part of the Twitter team, but I really think that they would recommend Streams. Of course, it depends a bit on the situation. 3) I thi

Re: [twitter-dev] User Streams or Site Streams?

This app cannot use User Streams and must only use Site Streams. User Streams is for desktop applications now, and soon will be available for all single-user-per-host applications. Site Streams are for all large scale integrations -- many streams to a single host, as Site Streams bundles multiple

[twitter-dev] More xAuth grief

Hi all, I have used the xAuth system to get myself this HTTP response: HTTP/1.1 200 OK (Clipped lots of other headers) oauth_token=17396968- lorGbfmR4dJpPi98HXX4wEaFUoWRAsQJ1hem&oauth_token_secret=BQ6nHHB0jMNnYNXXK2RQh5JgMV20aL9a7E&user_id=17396968&screen_name=garrytaylor&x_auth_expires=0

[twitter-dev] Re: What happens after twitter user denied access to the application?

When a user denies your app access, it says something like "you denied YourAppName access..." The text "YourAppName" is a link, and when the users clicks that, he gets redirected to your callback url, with an additional parameter denied=someLongVariable. So you can catch this scenario easily by lo

Re: [twitter-dev] More xAuth grief

I spotted a "source" in your Base String. You don't need to send that one. As long as you send these properly, it will work : oauth_consumer_key wd0XX6G9m9O7OYRg oauth_nonce e68644aad6fd745d5022 oauth_signature_method HMAC-SHA1 oauth_timestamp 1283866974 oauth_token 17396968-lorG

Re: [twitter-dev] Streaming API

You should use the Streaming API for large scale integrations. We're not doing much whitelisting for the REST API at the moment, but the shadow role on the Streaming API is generally available. If all of your users are public, use the shadow role on stream.twitter.com/1/statuses to get all of their

[twitter-dev] Re: More xAuth grief

Thanks Tom, OK, I've removed the source parameter, still no luck... My new POST: POST&http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fstatuses %2Fupdate.xml&oauth_consumer_key%3Dwd0fPjX9m9O7OYRg%26oauth_nonce %3Ddf4d3f58753ebc507840%26oauth_signature_method%3DHMAC- SHA1%26oauth_timestamp%3D1283868421%26oauth_token

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: More xAuth grief

You sign using consumersecret&usersecret <-- the 2 secrets. Tom On 9/7/10 4:13 PM, Garry wrote: > Thanks Tom, OK, I've removed the source parameter, still no luck... My > new POST: > > POST&http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fstatuses > %2Fupdate.xml&oauth_consumer_key%3Dwd0fPjX9m9O7OYRg%26oauth_non

[twitter-dev] Re: More xAuth grief

I've got it Tom! I got the order of my parameters different in what I was signing and what I was sending! Doh! Thanks so much for the help. Garry On Sep 7, 3:03 pm, Tom van der Woerdt wrote: > I spotted a "source" in your Base String. You don't need to send that one. > > As long as you send the

Re: [twitter-dev] help with accessing the streaming api

The Streaming API will print a short text message along with errors that is often a very explicit indication of the problem. I don't think it throws 500 errors (see: http://dev.twitter.com/pages/streaming_api_response_codes) so something odd is going on. If anything, it is throwing a 406, as you ha

Re: [twitter-dev] Error: User is over daily status update limit.

What's the name of the account having this problem? Taylor On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 6:19 PM, outatime wrote: > When trying to post using the new OAuth system, I am getting a "User > is over daily status update limit." error, but the account in question > has not posted anything since August 31st.

[twitter-dev] Re: More than five weeks of waiting for wihitelisting?

Sorry, no one wanting to help on the issue? On 3 Sep., 18:07, David Toussaint wrote: > Hi guys, > > Our company is running a service called "twittercrawl" in Germany and > got an IP whitelisted for that a while ago. We now are planning to > expand that service to other countrys and need another I

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: More than five weeks of waiting for wihitelisting?

We're still backed up considerably and taking a divide and conquer approach, doing both most recent submissions and older submissions alternately. Due to the volume of requests, we cannot promise a timely explicit rejection notice for some submissions. Our whitelisting criteria are more strict than

Re: [twitter-dev] profile image upload 500 error

We've made considerable improvements to the profile image uploading process recently that should, in general, decrease the amount of spurious 500 errors you receive when uploading. This means that when a 500 occurs, it's likely something exceptional or you're using outdated endpoints. Can you send

[twitter-dev] understanding data returned in arrays.

Hi everyone, I am struggling a bit to find the right API reference that explains how to work with the data that is returned from an expression like $content = $connection->get('friends/ids', array('screen_name' => 'bobaiello')); where get is shown below (as in Abraham William's excellent examples

[twitter-dev] C# and OAuth

i'm using OAuthBase.cs from oauth.googlecode.com for generate signature. public static void Status_Update() { OAuthBase oAuth = new OAuthBase(); string consumerKey = "My consumer key "; string consumerSecret = " My consumer secret "; string oauth_token = " token ";

Re: [twitter-dev] C# and OAuth

Hi Sashka, Take a look at this article regarding this error: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/566437/http-post-returns-the-error-417-expectation-failed-c-resolved You may need to instruct the HTTP client to not send the "Expect: 100-Continue" HTTP header. Taylor On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 7:14 AM,

[twitter-dev] Re: More than five weeks of waiting for wihitelisting?

Hi Taylor, Thanks for your reply! Is there any additional information we can provide to help you with our request? Regards, David On 7 Sep., 17:00, Taylor Singletary wrote: > We're still backed up considerably and taking a divide and conquer > approach, doing both most recent submissions and o

[twitter-dev] Re: More xAuth grief

Hello again Tom, OK, I've got my POST status update working, but now I want to GET direct messages. Here is my GET base string: GET&http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fdirect_messages.xml&oauth_consumer_key %3Dwd0fPjdiRT6G9m9O7OYRg%26oauth_nonce %3D8c8faf86e772390fb526%26oauth_signature_method%3DHMAC- SHA1

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: More xAuth grief

Hi Garry, When you present the count parameter in this context, it should be prior to oauth_consumer_key, as "c" comes before "o". The oauth_* parameters in the base string must be sorted along-side any other query/POST parameters, like "count" Taylor On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Garry wrote

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: More xAuth grief

You also have the oauth_* parameters. You need to sort those too ;-) 'c' goes before 'o' so count=20 goes before the oauth_* parameters. Tom On 9/7/10 5:15 PM, Garry wrote: > Hello again Tom, > OK, I've got my POST status update working, but now I want to GET > direct messages. Here is my GET ba

[twitter-dev] Re: More xAuth grief

Thanks Tom & Taylor, thanks for that, this is going to be interesting... Thanks again. Garry On Sep 7, 4:20 pm, Tom van der Woerdt wrote: > You also have the oauth_* parameters. You need to sort those too ;-) 'c' > goes before 'o' so count=20 goes before the oauth_* parameters. > > Tom > > On 9

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: More than five weeks of waiting for wihitelisting?

You're welcome to follow up with me off-list, if you like. Typically for research or University-related projects, we're not providing whitelisting, as the basic OAuth-based limits, in conjunction with the limits provided on the Search API and the Streaming API, allows for enough sampling data for a

Re: [twitter-dev] Problems with parameter since_id

Can you share an example of your signature base string in the case of using since_id? Are you actually using since_id=12345? Taylor On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 4:22 AM, Alexandre wrote: > Hi Guys, > > Well, I'm trying to use home_timeline with parameter since_id, but is > not working > > if I use max

[twitter-dev] Re: 400 response from twitterauth statuses/update call

Thanks for your response, Abraham! Twitter is returning a code of "400" with a description of... "Bad Request Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand." I'm making a account/rate_limit_status call in the page too and always get near 350 remaining hits, so I assumed I wa

[twitter-dev] Re: Missing oauth_verifier

For those having issues with the oauth-php library I would suggest moving to the twitteroauth library found here. http://github.com/abraham/twitteroauth It is far simpler and built specifically around the twitter oauth framework. The oauth-php library I'm sure can do the job, but not without many

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter - XAuth

Hi Georgooty, Present an example the status update you are trying to send with the UTF-8 characters, and I'll show you how it should be encoded. There's also a reference you can take a look at that iterates nearly every single possible UTF-8 character and how they should be encoded for a status u

Re: [twitter-dev] "Could not authenticate you" error on call to lists.xml

First, I'd make sure that you're using the right path for API operations. http://api.twitter.com/1/twitterapidocs/lists.xml is the proper end point, and you should be using these patterns for ALL REST API operations. If you're still getting an OAuth error with the proper end point, could you shar

[twitter-dev] users/lookup POST "read-only applications cannot post"

I just started getting this error message within the past hour for my application. My application is "read-only" in the sense that it never updates a user profile or posts any tweets or anything. My application does, however, use the users/lookup.json API, and I use POST because I am requesting man

Re: [twitter-dev] users/lookup POST "read-only applications cannot post"

Yes, we have a global catch-all rule that all POST operations are write operations. User/lookup is typically a GET operation anyway ( http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/users/lookup ) and you can pass the up-to 100 ids as a long query string parameter, provided your HTTP implementation allows for the

[twitter-dev] Re: Dynamic URLs with oauth return url

Jeff, All of my 'sites' are under control of one domain, so I just set a cookie before auth on any of the sites (with it's url), and then I redirect to the correct subdomain from my main site once my main site gets back control (I also do some housekeeping). I said 'I just set...' but this was fa

Re: [twitter-dev] understanding data returned in arrays.

Answers inline. Abraham - Abraham Williams | Hacker Advocate | http://abrah.am @abraham | http://projects.abrah.am | http://blog.abrah.am This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 07:13, Bob Aiello wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am struggling a bit

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Missing oauth_verifier

If anyone has questions about the TwitterOAuth library feel free to contact me. Abraham - Abraham Williams | Hacker Advocate | http://abrah.am @abraham | http://projects.abrah.am | http://blog.abrah.am This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 09:

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: 400 response from twitterauth statuses/update call

Are you behind a proxy of some sort? Abraham - Abraham Williams | Hacker Advocate | http://abrah.am @abraham | http://projects.abrah.am | http://blog.abrah.am This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 09:09, JC O'Donnell wrote: > Thanks for your

[twitter-dev] Re: 400 response from twitterauth statuses/update call

Hi Abraham, The server making the requests is not behind a proxy. I've also tried the users/lookup call, with both a POST and a GET (since the docs say both are supported). The POST returns the same response as I mentioned before, while the GET successfully returns user data. JC On Sep 7, 11:25

Re: [twitter-dev] User Streams or Site Streams?

Hey John, thanks for your detailed explanation. Another problem I'm worry about is, although I'll run the app on my VPS and open it for any users interested in it, I'm just a stand alone developer and don't have a company, is my Site Streams request acceptable? Thanks. On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 9:40

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Dynamic URLs with oauth return url

When you provide an oauth_callback on the oauth/request_token step, as long as you properly encode it, can contain any additional URL parameters you might want to send back to your server, including identifying information about the user and context/state that you may need to carry over. Taylor O

[twitter-dev] oauth_callback and oob error

HI all, I'm new at OAuth and every time I try to request for a token from https://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token it returns me this error : /oauth/request_token Desktop applications only support the oauth_callback value 'oob' I'm not developing a Desktop app its a Web application (JS

Re: [twitter-dev] oauth_callback and oob error

Is your application marked as a web app on http://dev.twitter.com/apps ? Tom On 9/7/10 10:08 PM, Babak wrote: > HI all, > > I'm new at OAuth and every time I try to request for a token from > https://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token > > it returns me this error : > /oauth/request_token Des

[twitter-dev] Re: Dynamic URLs with oauth return url

I've been unable to do that besides url encoding everything. I was able to get the cookie (and session var) to work though. On Sep 7, 1:12 pm, Taylor Singletary wrote: > When you provide an oauth_callback on the oauth/request_token step, as > long as you properly encode it, can contain any addit

[twitter-dev] Facebook twitter App no longer works

I recently made changes to my Facebook Twitter application to use OAuth. I now notice that my tweets no longer show up. I am able to pull the number of friends, and followers I have, even my profile picture but not my tweets. Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Twitter developer documentat

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter logout - hate to open this can of worms again

Thank for the replies everyone. It's unfortunate there's no good solution to this. Since we only do this the first time a user authorizes the widget as some of you have mentioned, it mitigates the issue somewhat. We'll probably try to notify the user to log out from the twitter site manually. Chee

Re: [twitter-dev] Facebook twitter App no longer works

Do you get an error? Tom On 8 sep. 2010, at 00:02, Uru wrote: > I recently made changes to my Facebook Twitter application to use > OAuth. I now notice that my tweets no longer show up. I am able to > pull the number of friends, and followers I have, even my profile > picture but not my tweets

[twitter-dev] Re: oauth_callback and oob error

Thanks Tom. well, I choose the Browser as Application Type. But I left the callback url field blank and it saved my settings nicely ! and then when i checked it back the application type was changed to client !! and this time i wrote something in callback url field and seems it really saved m

Re: [twitter-dev] Error: User is over daily status update limit.

account name: jetlib today it seems to be working..but it's still very strange that it would claim I exceeded the threshold when I didn't post anything. On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 7:40 AM, Taylor Singletary < taylorsinglet...@twitter.com> wrote: > What's the name of the account having this problem?

Re: [twitter-dev] Error: User is over daily status update limit.

With that being said, there may have been a lot of failed attempts to post stuff, b/c the client was using the now deprecated/disalbed basic-authentication. On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Jay Taylor wrote: > account name: jetlib > > today it seems to be working..but it's still very strange that

[twitter-dev] Re: ERROR The requested URL could not be retrieved

i need your help. On 5 set, 07:53, Rodrigo Berlinck wrote: > Post the code? > > On Sep 3, 8:53 pm, Rodrigo Berlinck wrote: > > > > > I will explain again. > > I Seto no one user of Twitter, get all that follow this user and this > > result returns an array, then I do a foreach to do follow and t

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: oauth_callback and oob error

This is a known quirk of how that page works. If you don't provide a callback URL we default you back to a client application. To be able to have a browser based application the callback URL must be specified. When doing this remember you should still send a oauth_callback during the request_token

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: ERROR The requested URL could not be retrieved

Hey Rodrigo, So I can help you please provide the code you are using. Matt On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Rodrigo Berlinck wrote: > i need your help. > > On 5 set, 07:53, Rodrigo Berlinck wrote: >> Post the code? >> >> On Sep 3, 8:53 pm, Rodrigo Berlinck wrote: >> >> >> >> > I will explain ag

[twitter-dev] OAuth limit exceeded and error message reads 'Basic authentication is not supported'?

Hi guys, I haven't fully confirmed this is what's going on, but it appears an account I use for doing only user/show calls, and ONLY via oauth is getting some bad error messages. I think in this case the account has hit it's oauth rate limit, and a few more user/show calls have been attempted. T

[twitter-dev] Re: oauth_callback and oob error

Thanks for reply. Kindly id like to discuss about this with some inline comments. On Sep 8, 4:30 am, Matt Harris wrote: > This is a known quirk of how that page works. > If you don't provide a callback URL we default you back to a client > application. Without any notification ?!?!? > To be a

Re: [twitter-dev] User Streams or Site Streams?

As long as you meet the general Terms of Service and follow the Developers rules you should be fine. On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Rainux Luo wrote: > Hey John, thanks for your detailed explanation. Another problem I'm > worry about is, although I'll run the app on my VPS and open it for > a

Re: [twitter-dev] Error 500 when updating Twitter status using fsock and oauth.

Thanks Tom, fixed the authorization header and it is working fine now, On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Tom van der Woerdt wrote: > The syntax of your Authorization: header is bad. Take a look in the > documentation and compare them. > > Tom > > > On 9/6/10 1:34 PM, A Lex wrote: > > Hi everyone,

[twitter-dev] Twitter Send Message API

i used twiiter api for status update,get connection,send message, status update and get connection working fine , but in send message getting 8/September/2010 10:15:33: {"request":"/1/direct_messages/ new.json","error":"Invalid request."} * TO SEND JOB DETAILS MESSAGE TO Twitter CONNECTIONS

[twitter-dev] Re: J2ME OAUTH token for Twitter

Thanks Tayalor But I am developing a twitter app for mobile (j2me) should i get request token everytime user want to login ? should user enter pin code everytime ? should i get access token everytime ? isn't there is any other way rather than providing the pin user should directly login... Amit

Re: [twitter-dev] profile image upload 500 error

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Taylor Singletary wrote: > We've made considerable improvements to the profile image uploading process > recently that should, in general, decrease the amount of spurious 500 errors What is the status of profile image update via API? Even today I am unable to get