API v1 Retirement Discussion

[The_Morgz]

I tried running the following GET “https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=twitterapi&count=2”

which seems to return the following message…
{“errors”:[{“message”:“Bad Authentication data”,“code”:215}]}

I’d appreciate any help with regards to this…

Thanks in advance.

[mattfaucher]

guys, i’m new to the whole twitter feed thing and built a feed a little while ago, partially from a tut, now with the retirement of v1 I can’t get things back on track! Is it pos to get a little help?

//

try {
var o = { username: ‘cafediegos’, count: 4 };
var twitterUrl = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=’+o.username+’&count=’+o.count;

$.ajax({url: twitterUrl, dataType: 'jsonp'})
	.success(function(data) {

		$.each(data, function(index, item){
			var itemRenderer = sym.createChildSymbol("itemRenderer", "tweetContainer");
			itemRenderer.$('tweet').html( item.text );
			itemRenderer.$('image').css( "background-image", "url("+item.user.profile_image_url+")" );
			itemRenderer.play( index * -100 );
		});

	});

}
catch(error) {
alert("Error: "+error.toString());
}

[abraham]

There was a commit to TwitterOAuth today that makes it work with v1.1.

[episod]

It’s generally not possible to use API v1.1 in pure client-side Javascript like this without exposing your credentials. Use cases for public display on websites are best served by [node:10248].

[King_Wasp]

OK. You win. I thought if I spent a few hours on this I could work it out, but it beats me and your website is extremely stuffy.

I used to have my last tweet appear on my webpage using this code (I have my own styling, not the twitter theme. )
“https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline/USERNAME.json?callback=twitterCallback2&count=1”

If I update it to “https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline/USERNAME.json?callback=twitterCallback2&count=1”

I get this error:
error: {“errors”:[{“message”:“Bad Authentication data”,“code”:215}]}

From what I’ve read I need to generate some code using oAuth but to do this I first need to Create an Application. This has four fields to complete: Name, Description, Website and Callback URL ( each with there own description underneath, which mean nothing to me)

What do I do with the oAuth code that is generated? Put it in my homepage, can I link to an external file?

Can you offer me any assistance? am I on the right track?

Judging from the amount of sites I have visited to see if they have there feed back up and running, a lot of people would like a laymens guide to this. Maybe there already is one, can I have the link?

Thanks.

[aleixojoao]

Will the https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=twitterapi&count=2 endpoint be migrated to 1.1 at all?

[rich_unger]

It does exist in 1.1:
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/statuses/user_timeline

[thomasmrkopf]

how ? i get a 400

[episod]

Make sure that you’re sending authentication – API v1.1 requires either signed OAuth 1.0A requests or our new OAuth 2-based app-only auth.

[thomasmrkopf]

how can i get i authentication ?

[ON24]

We are a webcasting company – you can think our products like webex, or gotomeeting, but for a much larger audience and lots of extra capability. Sometimes in excess of 20,000 participants for a single event.

These webcasts can have a twitter app as part of the webcast, and as a result we are hitting the limits associated with the new API:
api per-user limit per-app limit how we auth
/statuses/update none none user
/users/lookup 180 60 app
/search/tweets 180 450 app
statuses/user_timeline180 300 app

Even with caching (which we do), the limits a an order of magniture too low for us (and really, anyone who provides a webcasting solution with a large number of attendees.

Based on some math we have done internally (which I can to share with you)we need 8,000 per-app requests for each 15 minute window.

Would it be possible for us to have an email (or phone) dialog?

[jermiau]

I guess that it`s due to the retirement that my php code that pulls all tweets from API and stores them in a mysql db on my server has stopped working today.

That`s the error I get on the page:

Warning: file_get_contents(http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline/jermiau.json?count=30) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.0 410 Gone in /home/iis0/public_html/twinata/db/index.php on line 5

and these are the first 5 lines of PHPscript on that page:

<?php include ("contoit.php"); $username='jermiau';// set user name $format='json';// set format $tweet=json_decode(file_get_contents("http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline/{$username}.{$format}?count=30"));// get tweets and decode them into a variable /* Does anyone have any idea how to fix it, please?

[arghodayah]

anyone to update twitterVB?

[SkillsUSARI]

We are a non profit organization and just found out our iOS App is broken.
Our dev tells us he used API v1 and there was no authentication involved. The user did not even need a Twitter account.
Can our app users still see our public stream without having an account on Twitter?
We looked at the widgets - but do not want to go that route.

[benward]

You need to update your URL to use API v1.1, and send an authenticated request either via user OAuth (if you’re working on behalf of a user) or Application Auth (if your application is acting independently.)

You may find existing PHP libraries and tools makes this easier, for which we have [node:126, title=“a list available here”].

Ben

[benward]

Hi Louise,

In general, OAuth from client-side JavaScript isn’t viable as the secrets required to authenticate your application would be exposed to a user. For a demonstration project though, you may find it doesn’t matter.

Check out @myx’s https://github.com/mynetx/codebird-js JavaScript library, it will enable you to make user OAuth and application auth requests to the updated API.

Ben

[NoorulT]

Mr Singletary, I’m not very IT literate and would be hugely grateful if you could help me with my problem. I have subscribed to a large number of Twitter feeds in Feedly and they no longer work. I’d like to change that. One person I am subscribed to is Bill Gates’s Twitter feed which is:

https://twitter.com/BillGates.

In Feedly I subscribed to:

http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name=BillGates

That no longer updates. Please could you tell me what I should do to subscribe to that Twitter feed now?

[TradeVista]

Nice job Twitter. The new streaming API doesn’t work as documented, so you have killed my application, and I have no idea how to make it come back.

Next time, think it through first. AAARGH!

[jermiau]

Thanks for you helpful response ,Ben.
Just to make sure I completely understand it right:
Even if I only need to read last tweets (dont need to post them) and even if its only from my own account, I still need to switch to Oauth? No simpler method for this?

[norio_nomura]

I have confirmed this issue has been resolved for those apps which I tested.

Thanks, Twitter guys and Apple guys!