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PHP cron script with twitter (problem with oauth)

Hi guys, I am trying to write an php twitter script which will be run by crontab, what the script does is to get the tweets from a dedicated twitter account. I have looked at some of the php twitter oauth libraries, all of them seem to use redirect to a twitter page to get a token, then goes back to a callback link. In my case I don't ...

Why is Twitter returning a "Failed to validate oauth signature and token?"

Hi guys, Sorry for troubling you with yet another "Failed to validate oauth signature and token" error, but I just can't figure out what's wrong with my request. I'm constructing my signature from this string: POST&http%3A%2F%2Fapi.twitter.com%2Foauth%2Frequest_token&oauth_callback%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fcraiga.id.au%2Ftwitter%2Fconnected%26o...

Uploading to TwitVid using x_verify_credentials_authorization

Hi, I am developing an iPhone application that uploads videos to TwitVid using the library TwitVid-iPhone-OAuth3. I have selected this library since Twitter is shifting to OAuth mechanism of authentication. 1) Does this new library allows to upload without user-name and password parameters? 2) I am using the following steps for upload...

Change the delegate of MGTwitterEngine

Hi I have setup and successfully logged in via xAuth using an extended class of MGTwitterEngine, my question is if I want to pass this to another view controller, how can I change the delegate class, as it is some sort of weak reference @interface MGTwitterEngine : NSObject <MGTwitterParserDelegate> { __weak NSObject <MGTwitterEngineDe...

Twitter feed only load periodically

I've tried many jQuery twitter feed plugins and they all seem to suffer from the same problem. Nothing loads for unless I refresh several times and then it will load once. I then need to refresh several more times before it loads again. Is there some sort of limitation on Twitters side or does this only happen to me? Example - This is...

Using devise with oauth in a rails application

Hi, does anybody know a good tutorial for getting oauth working with devise? I want to use it for a Twitter login and posts data to the users twitter timeline. thx, tux. ...

how use Oauth on a desktop application

The long QUEST to get an access token app gets a request token from twitter user clicks a button on the ap app opens a twitter page, user types username/password twitter gives user a PIN user use this PIN in the application GREAT, finally app exchange the request token for an access token Questions: This token belongs to who? I mea...

Twitter rss feed 401 - unauthorisation

Hey. I have a public twitter account and this is the rss feed for it: http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline/150784631.rss The problem is, im getting an http 401 whenever im trying to access it. Can anybody explain how to stop this - and get it to work either with authentication or without! Cheers ...

Plotting a word-cloud by date for a twitter search result? (using R)

Hello all, I wish to search twitter for a word (let's say #google), and then be able to generate a tag cloud of the words used in twitts, but according to dates (for example, having a moving window of an hour, that moves by 10 minutes each time, and shows me how different words gotten more often used throughout the day). I would apprec...

How can I get the followers of a user on twitter, then get posts from those followers over a period of time so i can create a database?

I've been assigned a research project to enhance social networking based adaptive e-learning and to do so I need to be able to extract several (hundreds, maybe thousands) of status updates or tweets in order to perform factor analysis on key words. Apparently this can be done with javascript but I have never used javascript before so I'...

Twitter api - no more than 150 requests per hour....

Hi. I am writing a twitter app using jtwitter - and its running inside a server inside my work. Anyway - whenever i run it from work it returns the error below and I am only making a couple requests per hour: HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request {"request":"/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?count=6&id=cicsdemo&","error":"Rate limit exceeded. Clients ...

Twitter OAuth, Error when trying to POST direct message.

So I am building a java script that is used in conjunction of my C++ application for sending direct messages to users. the script does the work of building the request that i send. When i send a request i receive "Incorrect signature" or "can not authenticate you" Does anyone see something i am missing or am doing wrong? I am continuing ...

Validate login page in Twitter in iPhone

Hi, I am woking on twitter application. I have used "Twitter Request" package and implemented in my application and posted a tweet messages successfully. Now i want to validate the login page, whether the user typed the user name and pass word is correct or not. If the user types the correct datails, the message will be posted otherwise...

JTwitter OAuth with callback authorisation

Hey guys. I am writing an App using JTwitter however I need to authenticate in order to not have the 150 requests per minute on the public api. Jtwitter seems to support OAuth however I have some questions. My app will be running behind a company firewall - so the URL wont be accessible outside of the company's network - will callback...

How to create "cachedXAuthAccessTokenKey" using XAuthTwitterEngine in Twitter in iphone

Hi, I am working on login page validation for twitter application. I have downloaded the sample code of "XAuthTwitterEngineDemo". Now i have created kOAuthConsumerKey and kOAuthConsumerSecret keys and implemented in my code. But i donno, how to create "cachedXAuthAccessTokenKey". #define kCachedXAuthAccessTokenStringKey @"cachedXAut...

Twitter RSS pubDate format

In a twitter RSS feed the pubDate is published as Sat, Jun 5, 2010 19:20 Using PHP, whats the best way to convert this into the time lasped since published. For eaxmple, posted 4 minutes ago posted 1 hour ago posted 4 hours ago posted 1 day ago posted 2 days ago posted 1 month ago posted 2 months ago You help much appreciated ...

JTwitter OAuth signpost example

Hey. I believe JTwitter supports OAuth to authenticate against a developer account , however i cannot get any of them working. The JTwitter docs say signpost is the supported method - yet I cannot seem to find the OAuthSignpostClient class they use even after adding the signpost libs: OAuthSignpostClient client = new OAuthSignpostCl...

how can i get the email of the authenticated person?.

At this point i just have an authenticated oAuth in php ...

links pre-filled messages on social sites

hi, I've written a simple tool that lets users keep track of some stuff (to make it simple, lets say they're entering their weight every day). Throughout the site, I want to add links to social sites, where user could share that info. Example: after user successfully adds a new record, I'd like to show him links that when clicked woul...

Error: OAuthConsumer.h: No such file or directory using MGTwitterEngine in iphone

Hi, I am working on Twitter login page validation. Now i have downloaded MGTwitterEngine package and implemented in my application. I have followed these steps in this Link. But i got the error:"error: OAuthConsumer.h: No such file or directory". I am struggling in this problem for last two days. How can i achieve this. Please guide me...