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Q: 

Get current user screenname from Twitter

Is there a way to get the screenname of the current logged in user?

The show requires id or user_id or screen_name, but I don't have any of those.

I could only think about a workaround, that would be to make a request to twitter.com and get the contents of the <span id="me_name">

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have you tried account/verify_credentials

Puaka  2010-07-09 15:41:12
It asks for authorization. I don't have the access token at this point.
BrunoLM  2010-07-09 16:42:33
right, you need that for the function, have you tried @Anywhere, pretty easy to setup
Puaka  2010-07-09 16:44:20
with anywhere you can do something like :twttr.anywhere(function(T) { if(T.isConnected()) { var currentUser = T.currentUser; screenName = currentUser.data('screen_name'); }});
Puaka  2010-07-09 16:45:54
Trying to use that script T.isConnected() returned false, and I was online at Twitter. I just need to know how to get the T.currentUser.data("screen_name"), I don't need anything else.
BrunoLM  2010-07-09 17:29:54
weird.. it should be working both on REST and @Anywhere, what you can do is clear all you browser cache, then use anywhere to connect, once connected, you should get the screen name, you can put it inside auth_complete and use it like this :T.bind("authComplete", function (e, user) { currentUser = T.currentUser; screenName = currentUser.data('screen_name'); });
Puaka  2010-07-09 17:37:39
A: 

It's not possible without oAuth.

The only workaround is the one mentioned on the question.

BrunoLM  2010-07-16 13:40:45

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