Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Making the twitter user the default user of your application
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 11:13 AM, hernangarcia hernan.gar...@gmail.com wrote: Hey man, good morning. If you are developing a web app, OAUTH is the way to go. I am using Twitter4J but for sure oauth-python-twitter has methods to do the same, this is what I do: after investigating a little more it seems python-twitter is kind of unmaintained. tweepy on the other hand support everything I need. it even has some nice example apps for the workflow. 1) Generate the authorization url using the twitter account of the app 2) I redirect the user to that URL which is twitter login form 3) Twitter redirects the user to a callback url I set up in the app account with the authentication tokens 4) I store those auth token in a DB where I also have the user profile So far so good. 5) Whenever I want to communicate with Twitter I retrieve those tokens from the storage and use them. This is where I get confused. Do you get one auth token per user and you have to link those to their profile? If I want to implement a remember me type of thing will I just pick the username check against the tokens storage and call the twitter API to see if he is a valid user? This is the app I am working on in case you wanna check the flow. Cheers!!! On Feb 4, 7:34 am, Jorge Vargas jorge.var...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'm a bit confused about how to go with this. Normally i'll expect a openID provider and then I'll code a consumer, howeverhttp://apiwiki.twitter.com/Sign-in-with-Twitterpoints out I need to run oauth. Also several searches point out that twitter will not be an openID provider anytime soon. So my question is how will you handle twitter-only accounts, for this particular app you *must* have a twitter account and I want to store additional info regarding each user in my app. In order words all I need to know is that you are who you claim to be on twitter to attribute actions on you. Should I got with oauth even though that's overkill in this particular application? If that is the case any one has usedhttp://code.google.com/p/oauth-python-twitteris it a good implementation?
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Making the twitter user the default user of your application
On 2/5/2010 11:00 AM, Jorge Vargas wrote: On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 11:13 AM, hernangarciahernan.gar...@gmail.com wrote: Hey man, good morning. If you are developing a web app, OAUTH is the way to go. I am using Twitter4J but for sure oauth-python-twitter has methods to do the same, this is what I do: after investigating a little more it seems python-twitter is kind of unmaintained. tweepy on the other hand support everything I need. it even has some nice example apps for the workflow. 1) Generate the authorization url using the twitter account of the app 2) I redirect the user to that URL which is twitter login form 3) Twitter redirects the user to a callback url I set up in the app account with the authentication tokens 4) I store those auth token in a DB where I also have the user profile So far so good. 5) Whenever I want to communicate with Twitter I retrieve those tokens from the storage and use them. This is where I get confused. Do you get one auth token per user and you have to link those to their profile? If I want to implement a remember me type of thing will I just pick the username check against the tokens storage and call the twitter API to see if he is a valid user? Can users have multiple accounts associated with an IP address?
[twitter-dev] Re: Making the twitter user the default user of your application
Hey man, good morning. If you are developing a web app, OAUTH is the way to go. I am using Twitter4J but for sure oauth-python-twitter has methods to do the same, this is what I do: 1) Generate the authorization url using the twitter account of the app 2) I redirect the user to that URL which is twitter login form 3) Twitter redirects the user to a callback url I set up in the app account with the authentication tokens 4) I store those auth token in a DB where I also have the user profile 5) Whenever I want to communicate with Twitter I retrieve those tokens from the storage and use them. This is the app I am working on in case you wanna check the flow. Cheers!!! On Feb 4, 7:34 am, Jorge Vargas jorge.var...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'm a bit confused about how to go with this. Normally i'll expect a openID provider and then I'll code a consumer, howeverhttp://apiwiki.twitter.com/Sign-in-with-Twitterpoints out I need to run oauth. Also several searches point out that twitter will not be an openID provider anytime soon. So my question is how will you handle twitter-only accounts, for this particular app you *must* have a twitter account and I want to store additional info regarding each user in my app. In order words all I need to know is that you are who you claim to be on twitter to attribute actions on you. Should I got with oauth even though that's overkill in this particular application? If that is the case any one has usedhttp://code.google.com/p/oauth-python-twitteris it a good implementation?
