We can ask our community to authorize our Twitter app. We can get their credentials.
The tool we are building aims to measure each member’s contributions on Twitter. We may need to retrieve their likes, tweets, comments, retweets related to our project.
The issue here is that we will hit the rate limit if we use our app bearer token. Is there a way to use users’ credentials to retrieve the data and somehow increase our rate limit by a large margin?
I appreciate any advice. There is a vague explanation on documentation, and I can’t confirm it without getting confirmation from other experienced developers.
Thank you very much.
Yes, you will need to implement the login with twitter flow: Log in with Twitter | Docs | Twitter Developer Platform
And the using your consumer key & secret, and then the user’s access token and secret, you can authenticate calls. Each user has their own limit, but some endpoints have app level limits.
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