Any working Twitter API client for Common Lisp? - twitter

I was just trying to use cl-twitter, installed it first using quicklisp and I got this error when executing examples from its documentation:
The function TWITTER:AUTHENTICATE-USER is undefined.
Is this software up to date? Or it's just that the documentation is not? Are there any other working Common Lisp libs for Twitter API?

I cannot offer a full client library, but for the authentication part of it, cl-oauth works well. See this piece of code for a usage example.

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JMeter Oauth 1.0 support

I need to test integration with 3rd party using OAuth 1.0.
I didn't found any working solution except OAuthSampler which mark as deprecated and it states:
Does not work with JMeter v3.2+.
In JMeter 3.1 Plugin Manager it's marked as deprecated,
Can I still use it in JMeter 3.1 and how? Is there a working solution for sending OAuth 1.0 requests?
Is the main problem of plugin is the use of deprecated Base64Encoder?
OAuth has too many faces therefore I doubt the plugin has ever worked. The best way is reaching out to your application developers, if you will be lucky enough you will get a relevant OAuth client library and code snipped which will be producing the required token. If not - you will at least have Consumer Key and Consumer Secret which you can use for building up the proper OAuth login sequence and the necessary signature method (as OAuth requests can be signed using different algorithms)
See How to Run Performance Tests on OAuth Secured Apps with JMeter for more detailed explanation, approaches to bypass OAuth login challenges and code snippets.
Yes, you can use it in JMeter 3.1. The reason many plug-ins do not work with JMeter 3.2 are outlined in Incompatible changes section. Most important reasons are
Logging changes - this is the most popular reason for plug-ins to break. And looking at OAuthSampler, it seems the likely reason for this plug-in as well.
Java 8 version requirement. Could be a problem for some libs.
It's also not too hard to convert sampler to be 3.2 friendly (remove logging completely, or change it to use new standard methods), so you could do that from OAuthSampler source code. You can also use script solution described here

Gcloud, ruby on rails, speech to text

I am trying to use Google's new speech to text api: https://cloud.google.com/speech/docs/rest-tutorial . They currently have python and node.js examples.
Unfortunately, my application is RoR. I was looking through https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcloud-ruby , which is a gem that interacts with google cloud services (but not speech). I was hoping that I could use the two together to come out with a working solution, but my knowledge of how to use API's is limited.
Enough background, my questions are:
Does anyone know if Google is going to put out a Ruby version of the speech to text api? If yes, is there a timeline?
If I am impatient, how would I go about using their current API's. By this I mean, is there a good resource for someone to learn how to use generic API's?
The gcloud-ruby gem now supports google-cloud-speech.
To address your other questions, there are no language specific versions of the APIs themselves. They are all HTTP APIs (either REST or gRPC), so they can be used from anything that can make HTTP requests. It can be tricky to use them directly though, because of things like how authentication is handled, which is why client libraries exist for different languages.
If you want to learn more about how to use the REST APIs directly, first take a look at the doc 'Using OAuth 2.0 for Web Server Applications' to find out how to manually authenticate, which has examples for Ruby and raw HTTP/REST.

Is there a library for OAuth 2 in VB

I'm trying to implement OAuth 2 connectivity for an old site that's implemented in ASP over IIS 6 with VB (not VB.net)
I tried to find a library that implements OAuth 2 and could not find one. Is there such a library? If not, what are my options?
Sorry if the question is trivial, I'm new to VB...
Are you looking for something like this?
This library should help you get started on using OAuth in VBS. Everything you need to get is from here, place the OAuth folder into your project, then just follow the code samples provided.
Although he is using Twitter for his example, it can be used for any service that supports OAuth.

PayPal integration. C# POST vs. WSDL

I got the PayPal integration working well using plain old HTTP POST using C# & .NET 2/3.5. I also get all transaction details in the response.
So, if I want to use WSDL (SOAP), will there be any advantage? (you can assume I know how to use web services)
Also, are there any examples on a complete C# project using this method? I already looked at http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/42894/Introduction-to-PayPal-for-C-ASP-NET-developers
but that page tells very little about how to make a fully functional transaction using WSDL.
Any ideas?
Or "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"
thanks!
I really don't work from WSDL's very often because I'm primarily a PHP developer. I have worked with them in Adobe Flex, though, and I gotta say I liked what I saw.
Basically, I was able to hook the WSDL up in Flex (which you can do in other IDE's as well) and it automatically gave me access to all of the API calls in the system. I could see all of the possible requests (functions) available to the web service as well as how to build them without even referring to much documentation.
When building HTTP requests directly (NVP/XML/JSON/etc) you gotta refer to documentation quite a bit to see how to build the request, and there's typically more trial and error involved, too, until you get things working. The WSDL helps you get around that, although, in reality you'll probably still be referring quite a bit to documentation.
The WSDL/SOAP tools I've used with PHP don't work nearly as nice as Flex or Visual Studio from what I've seen, so I typically stick to custom class libraries that build my requests for me. when I'm working in other platforms that utilize WSDL's a little nicer, though, I definitely prefer it.

OAuth within non browser application?

I know how OAuth works in web applications that run in a browser, but I'm not sure how OAuth can be implemented in an application that does not run in a browser.
It's easy to display the URL using some kind of a WebView, but how do I get back the information it sends back? My research doesn't reveal a straightforward way to do this.
There are a few Java libraries out there that can do this. (Are you looking for a particular language?)
Scribe is probably the most mature Java library:
https://github.com/fernandezpablo85/scribe-java
There are more libraries for pretty much every language here:
http://oauth.net/code/

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