how to test a twitter api on your local machine

Question

i am using twitterizer to have a web front end to twitter data. I'm trying to figure out how i can test on a localmachine when you have to put in a valid public callback url in your application registration. The twitter page doesn't let you have a callback url like this:

http://localhost:3444/Callback . .

any suggestions?

Answer 1

Instead of localhost can you use your IP?

You can get it using whatismyip.com.

HTH

Answer 2

Use a service like No-Ip to setup a static dns name for your dynamic ip and then use it in your api call.

Answer 3

You can use http://127.0.0.1:port/...

The Twitterizer example application is already setup to test locally.

Ricky (The guy who made Twitterizer)

Answer 4

If you're integrating this library into your application I would wrap the Twitterizer API in an interface, then mock the implementation while you test.

Answer 5

change your hosts file example ;

127.0.0.1 mytwitter.com

add web site on IIS

mytwitter.com and maps your project