How to make calls to Twitter API using Postman client

Question

I have followed the steps required to create a new application and getting consumer key, secret pairs and also the token access details. Now I would like to make calls to Twitter Rest API, using chrome Postman client.

How should I pass the customer key, secret, token etc details to the request? I have tried to pass them as headers and also tried to pass them by selecting OAuth1.0 option in postman client but I am getting errors:

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": 32,
      "message": "Could not authenticate you."
    }
  ]
}

Answer 1

I know this is old, but in case anyone is still facing this issue, the following steps worked for me:

1. In Authorization tab, select OAuth 1.0
2. Enter your consumer key, consumer secret, access token and access token secret
3. Enable “Add params to header” and “Auto add parameters”
4. Send the request

I hope that helps.

Answer 2

Juliana Chahoud's answer updated for 2018:

The add authorization data has been moved to the left column and requires you to select the drop down menu to change it to "Request Headers".

Answer 3

Postman creates 6 character nonce, Twitter needs 32-character Nonce. So you can use any random value, I used ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ123456 (length=32)

Answer 4

You must not pick Add params to header (pick will failed) You don't need to care about Nonce