I am completely confused. I have attempted to read about the Twitter API v1.1 and it's requirements. What I am confused about is the server side requirments.
If I want to use any data via Twitter API I must use server side authentication? or will I still be able to use:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://twitter.com/javascripts/blogger.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline/YOUR_USERNAME.json?callback=twitterCallback2&count=2"></script>
and show the users timeline? I am lost on an answer and browsing Twitters Docs are confusing me more!
Basically I am asking this: If I want to pull a Twitter Timeline of Tweets I must now use server side authentication to do this. If not come March 2013 my twitter feeds will no longer work.
Yes you now need to use authentication for all twitter API requests. The following tutorial is quite useful:
Using The New Twitter API V1.1
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I am looking solution for scraping my YouTube account from iOS application. I successfully complete oauth2 authentication and can create requests to YouTube API. But I need to scrape some pages, that not available from API. I understand that to do this, I need session cookie for my Google Account. But could not understand how to receive it based on oauth2 credentials.
Could you please help me, no matter what programming language you will use.
Most plugins I see says I can't use their service anymore because Twitter changed their unauthenticated API. Can someone guide me on how to get around it? We already have an embedded twitter feed, but we wanted the tweets to display one at a time, instead of the box being filled up (with a scrollbar)
Any references or guidance will be much appreciated. Thanks.
Twitter have introduced a system of "Application-only authentication" based on OAuth 2. You can use it to authenticate your app for API endpoints which do not require user related informations (basically the former endpoints which do not require authentication). With this "Application-only authentication" you should be able to use the methods that plugins do not handle any longer (likely because they did not code this feature). For further informations, have a look at the corresponding page on Twitter Developers.
The rest of your question is just about using the Twitter API endpoints. The available endpoints you can use (i.e. the ones that Twitter Inc. does not keep for itself only) are listed here.
Can any one explain how to send a Twitter request to get the latest tweets for a hashtag using Twitter API V1.1 using OAuth settings ? I have searched for documentation in Twitter site, but I am incomplete.
Can any one give the sample request & response through RestClient or Advanced Rest Client ?
Thanks in advance.
You have multiple questions here, so I'll answer them one by one.
The search/tweets method
You can search tweets using this method in the 1.1 API. According to those docs, you can pass a q parameter which is "a UTF-8 encoded query of 1000 characters maximum".
The query for your specific requirements
Scroll down on this page and you'll see that you can search for a specific hashtag using #hashtag. Yes, that's it.
How can I make V1.1 requests using OAuth?
Follow the detailed step-by-step post here, using this library to make authenticated requests.
I was using V1.0 of the REST API to simply pull twitter status updates into a website which was nice and easy! Now that API has gone, I believe I need to use O-Auth and create an App to do anything? I find the whole O-Auth thing quite confusing, does anyone have any useful links to a step by step process of creating a basic twitter app, how a user allows you to access their timeline (accepts access from the app?) then actually create a request and pull data, Twitter docs are just too much to digest at the moment.
I currently have a bunch of apps that go and make simple anonymous calls to the twitter API, and grab several differing timelines. Obviously, twitter is changing things up with 1.1, and is demanding authenticated calls using oauth. Does that mean each of my users need a token (their own account) to do call, or do I need one app token for all of them? Should I be using the twitter api included with iOS 5? Note: These are not the user's timeline...just several news feeds on twitter. Am a bit confused. Any pointers would be appreciated.
This is a good question, I struggled with this myself.
You can use Twitter API client via PHP and then json_encode the user timeline you want and parse it. This is not the best practice, but is a work around I had to do for an app on which I wanted to only display tweets no other action was need, like getting links, retweets, etc.
hope this serves.