Get the tweets a user sees on his twitter account

[alfonsoesteves1]

I can get the tweets posted by a person, but I don’t know if it is posible to get the tweets that a user would see on his twitter when he logs in.

Im using twitter for java library

Is it possible, how can it be done?

[abraham]

The API method you want is GET statues/home_timeline which is only accessible with authorization from the user. Assuming you are using twitter4j have a look at getHomeTimeline.

[alfonsoesteves1]

that function only allows me to get my own “HomeTimeLine”, what can I do to have the HomeTimeLine of a user whose user/password I have been given?

[andypiper]

You shouldn’t be “given” the user/pw of another user. They should authenticate to your app using OAuth, and then use the token to call the endpoint.

[alfonsoesteves1]

So the user of my aplication has (without alternative) to visit:

https://api.twitter.com/oauth/authorize…_relative_to_my_app

so he can get a ping to input in my app.

There’s no other way? If the user does not need to leave the desktop app (to go to the browser) it would be a little bit better for me.

Thanks in advance, you have been very helpful so far

[andypiper]

The OAuth flow requires the user to authenticate the application against their Twitter account - that’s a web-based flow.