Yes, the 'My Access Token' would suit that use case. On 4 Jun 2011, at 20:57, Correa Denzil wrote:
> Hi, > > I would like to use a one access token with OAuth to make calls to the > Twitter API. I am NOT trying to build a web application but rather > trying to harvest data from Twitter to perform some analysis. I would > like to collect three types of data : followers, friends and user > information including status updates as available. I am able to do all > the same using no authentication as the data I collect are from public > users only. However, due to API limits I would like to shift to Oauth > which would allow me to get access to 350 requests per hour. > > Is OAuth one access token the right approach for my task? > > Is there any documentation or example to do the same? I am not using > any wrapper. Wrappers like Python-Twitter and Twython don't allow > functions to access followers, status updates of other users i.e. > users with data publicly available. I use urllib2 to directly call the > URL as given on the Twitter API documentation website. > > I have registered an application and have all the keys (API key, > Consumer Key, Consumer Secret, Access Token, Access Secret Key) with > me. I would just like to get myself authenticated and mine Twitter to > collect data. > > Programming Language : Python > > --Regards, > Denzil -- Scott Wilcox @dordotky | [email protected] | http://dor.ky +44 (0) 7538 842418 | +1 (646) 827-0580 -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk
