Using only JQuery to update Twitter (OAuth)

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Using only JQuery to update Twitter (OAuth)

Hi,

we would like to send a JSON update command to twitter, but only using JQuery, not having to go to the webserver and have it done in PHP.

The thing I can't grasp really is how to send the user credentials in the JQuery/JSON twitter API call. Our user credentials are from Twitter's OAuth.

thanks, cheers!

Iam not 100% sure, but i think you need an serverside script to authenticate with twitter.

check out this link:

Jitter

its an api implementation for Jquery and Twitter (but altough has an PHP Script to handle some things.)

ArneRie 2009-11-20 11:08:07

Good solution! Having a PHP script that returns OAuth tokens. As these tokens only work when called from our domain (as it is the one registered with Twitter) it's 100% secure. The PHP doesn't update anything and the JQuery only works when hosted on our domain.

sopppas 2009-11-20 11:18:41

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If you did this, you would have to embed your application's Key, Secret (!), and the user's token into the webpage (which is then exposed to the user). I don't think this is a good idea. (And the risk of compromise is the same.)

This might be the thinking of most other people - however there is a Javascript OAuth library. But it's not inteded for the use inside websites (cross-domain ajax limitation) but rather for other JS platforms (like Chrome/Jetpack plugins or Vista Sidebar widgets).

Marcel J. 2009-11-20 11:21:26

yes you're right. Forgot we need to sign and encrypt the Twitter API request with our application's key. There's no way I would expose this key in our webpage.

sopppas 2009-11-20 11:26:04

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