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Flash security error - Twitter API

Hey folks, I'm trying to hit the Twitter API in my Flash application. It works in the local Flash IDE, but doesn't work when I upload it to my server. I'm getting this error: Error #2044: Unhandled securityError:. text=Error #2048: Security sandbox violation: http//alpha.{oursite}.com/flash/twitterticker.swf cannot load data from htt...

Twitter OAuth Request Token Using Grackle

I am currently trying to use the Grackle Ruby GEM to integrate with the Twitter API, but I have encountered a little snag. I am attempting to perform a GET to twitter.com/oauth/request_token, but according to the OAuth spec I need to provide the following values: oauth_consumer_key oauth_signature_method oauth_signature oauth_timestam...

What is the function of Twitter's verify credentials API ?

I just implemented sign in with twitter for my webapp. At the end of the OAuth 3-legged flow, I needed to retrieve the screenname & avatar pic for the user. All I had was the twitterid e.g. 3546735 So I performed a GET http://twitter.com/users/show/3546735.json No security is required for this method, although it is rate-limited. Recen...

Getting a myriad of socket issues while writing desktop Python bot.

The issue stems from the OAuth authentication portion of my code. I truncated a bunch of it and cut at the part where I get my error. My specific error is "gaierror: (11001, 'getaddrinfo failed'". I really have no idea why. I'm using Leah Culver's OAuth library (http://oauth.googlecode.com/svn/code/python/oauth/). Pretty much following t...

Twitter's access tokens are not opaque.

Referring to this old april 2009 thread at twitter-dev; I am currently extracting the twitterid from the access token. The thread says that twitter will soon move to provide the twitterid & screenname to the callback url directly but as of today, that is still not the case. Are you still extracting the twitterid from the access token ? I...

how to use word cloud for twitter application.

I am working on a twitter application where i want to show all trend in word cloud. but i don't know how to use word cloud and which api i will use for twitter to do this. I want like thisExample. Please help me for this. ...

How to test the twitter API locally?

I'm trying to write a web application that would use Twitter via OAuth. 1) I run my local server as 'localhost', so I need the callback URL to be something like http://localhost/something/twitter.do but Twitter doesn't like that: Not a valid URL format 2) I'm probably going to do a lot of tests, but once I've approved my app with my u...

twitter status update using tweetsharp oauth preview 17.

I am trying to update the status using tweetsharp oauth preview 17. Please let me know how ?. I tried this code var msg = FluentTwitter.CreateRequest() .AuthenticateWith(_consumerKey, _consumerSecret, Session["token"].ToString(), Session["tokensecret"].ToString()) .Statuses().Update("Hi"); but didn't ...

how to update data to twitter from my phone app

I am creating a app that I want to have a button for the user to tell others on twitter about my APP and have them post it to their twitter account.. how can this be done im fairly new to iphone programming, but this will finish up my second app please help and thanks for all your advice concerning this matter. ...

Theming for/with javascript?

A colleague made a small module to retrieve twitter search results based on user configurable search terms and display them in a block. He is doing the searching with javascript to keep that traffic on the client side, something like: $.getJSON('http://search.twitter.com' etc.. Then when the json results are returned inserting them int...

Storing login/password in twitter client

I know that storing such a sensitive data is a bad idea. But if application will ask password every time when it's starts it'll be annoying... I know about OAuth but this is just the same thing - user will be interrupted with browser(or i'm wrong? - this moment is not clear for me). I know about symmetric cryptography. But how to store t...

RegEx: Link Twitter-Name Mentions to Twitter in HTML

I want to do THIS, just a little bit more complicated: Lets say, I have an HTML input: <a href="http://www.example.com" title="Bla @test blubb">Don't break!</a> Some Twitter Users: @codinghorror, @spolsky, @jarrod_dixon and @blam4c. You can't reach me at [email protected]. Is there a good RegEx to replace the twitter username mentio...

Get object within JSON object only by knowing its position, and not name

Hi, I'm currently looking into the Twitter-API - specifically the daily trends-API (http://search.twitter.com/trends/current.json). Example return from Twitter { trends: { 2009-11-19 14:29:16: [ { name: "#nottosayonfirstdate", query: "#nottosayonfirstdate"...

Twitter Service Proxy in C#

Does anyone know of a Twitter service proxy in particular, or a general-purpose REST service proxy that I could install on my own server, written in C#? The point here is to direct Twitter service queries to my service that are passed-through to Twitter. ...

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! ...

Cannot get Twitter-OAuth-iPhone to work

Hi, demo works as expected, no problems. But now I'm trying to integrate it into my project. I use no xib-s, code only: OAuthTwitterDemoViewController *vc = [[OAuthTwitterDemoViewController alloc] init]; [[UIApplication sharedApplication].keyWindow addSubview:vc.view]; [vc release]; it compiles and runs with no errors, but the actual ...

twitter api question

Is there a way to pass a variable to twitter when you authorized and have it pass it back? For instance when I send them to the oauth page I want to send them with an id and when they return to my confirm page I want to be able to get that id. Is this possible? ...

Sending message to Twitter creates an error message

Hi, I'm trying to get the following code to run (it's from the Heads First iPhone Development book - page 81), it's a twitter app, and the code blow runs when you press a button to send a simple text message to twitter: //TWITTER BLACK MAGIC NSMutableURLRequest *theRequest=[NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"...

Kickstart developing Twitter application

Any good source/website/inputs/sample to kickstart developing a twitter application using twitter API? Edit : I don't know what languages can be used to develop it. But I am familiar with VB .NET and Java. ...

Does a Facebook wrapper class written in PHP exist? like Twitter wrapper class written in PHP.

Where can i get a similiar http://code.google.com/p/php-twitter/ class for facebook? The above class is very easy if i need to update my status on twitter i just do $twitter->updatestatus("blabla"); i need a similiar class for facebook where can i get it? ...