On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 18:50, Hintswen <hints...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I currently have a script running on my server using basic > authentication and tweeting rss feeds to a number of different > accounts. > > I want to do something similar to that but using OAuth (seeing as I > cant register an application for basic auth anymore). But I'm lost, > OAuth requires a browser to work doesn't it? but my script wont be run > from a browser. >
I'm not sure if you are using PHP but here is a blog post about running server scripts with OAuth: http://kovshenin.com/archives/automatic-tweet-oauth/ > Do I have to make an authorize page and load that in a web browser to > get the access tokens and then put them into my script? Yes. > Will they ever expire? No. > Is there a way to automatically get the access tokens without > me making a web page that will ask me to login to twitter and > authenticate? > You could write an HTML parser to parse the authorization page but that would be a lot of work and error prone. Abraham -- Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham Project | http://fireeagle.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Madison, WI, United States
