Using the "Test OAuth" feature (application settings) I can generate a fully set up curl command for a specified API request:
curl --get 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/followers/ids.json'
--data 'count=10&cursor=-1&screen_name=microsoft'
--header 'Authorization: OAuth
oauth_consumer_key="123consumer",
oauth_nonce="123nonce",
oauth_signature="123signature%3D",
oauth_signature_method="HMAC-SHA1",
oauth_timestamp="1402309080",
oauth_token="123-token",
oauth_version="1.0"'
--verbose
This is exactly what I would like to do but with varying API requests. But just exchanging "microsoft" in above command with "google" will cause an error:
{"errors":[{"message":"Could not authenticate you","code":32}]}
Why is that not possible and how can I make it work?
As far as I understand OAuth all I need for authorizing a request is the oauth-key/values listed in step G of the following chart:
This is the "official" answer: Authorizing a request
The v1. 1 search/tweets and the Twitter API v2 recent search endpoint support both OAuth 1.0a User Context and OAuth 2.0 App-Only. Therefore, if you were previously using the standard v1. 1 search endpoint you can continue using the same authentication method if you migrate to the Twitter API v2 version.
curl can send all common HTTP commands to a REST API including GET , POST , PUT , and DELETE . The curl utility is straightforward to use. It has a few main options for data transmission, user authentication, and making header changes.
When you change the parameters, the OAuth signature base string does change, so the oauth_signature
header does also change. That's why you can't reuse the signature when you change the parameters.
If you want to see the curl request for any specific request to Twitter API, have a look at the STTwitter library for OS X. The demo project includes a GUI client that will show you the OAuth request in curl format.
Now if your goal is just issuing requests to Twitter from command line, check out twurl which is a command-line client for Twitter API.
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