If you're only needing to use a single user account in your implementation, you don't need to implement the entire OAuth flow to accomplish your goals.
You can either go ahead and implement the flow, protect it in your application such that only you have access to it, and then persist the access token you receive until the end of time (or whenever you decide to expire it, just like any other OAuth-enabled application). Or you can use a feature we have on the dev portal that will quickly give you the oauth_token and oauth_token_secret that comprise your access token -- then persist those values and only have to implement the resource-based OAuth components. You can find out more about using the single token approach here: http://bit.ly/1token -- you'll just go to your registered app in the dev portal, click the "My Token" link in the sidebar, and copy those values into the proper place in your application. Keep in mind though, that if you are following any protected accounts, it might not be appropriate for you to expose your friends_timeline for the public to see. Having a follow relationship with a protected account is kind of a loose social contract... Taylor Singletary Developer Advocate, Twitter http://twitter.com/episod On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 1:54 AM, nicolasleroy <nicolas.le...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hello > > I'm trying to do the following: I created an account on twitter and > I'm following certain friends. On my site I would like to show my > friends_timeline. This needs authentication. As basic authentication > will be turned off, I need to use oauth. > How can I do this. It is my account, and I don't want to be redirected > to the twitter screen to allow the application to connect. As other > users don't need to see that. Those users are going to visit a page on > my site and there in a block I would like to show the > friends_timeline. > Can I do all oauth steps behind the scenes, just to fetch my > friends_timeline and show it on my site? > > Thanks for pointing me in the right direction ! > > Nicolas >
