Help with creating a bot using a private twitter account

[bagelbot1]

Hi there,
I’ve created a bot using my main twitter account that I usually keep private. I am wondering how to go about authorizing my bot’s app so that it can allow me to grab tweets from my main account while keeping my main account locked. I am assuming that the “Enable sign in to twitter” option and the OAuth1 callback URL comes into play here, but I am not sure how to go about requesting this access. Any help would be much appreciated

[IgorBrigadir]

Use the private account to authenticate an app using something like twurl - once you have this access token belonging to the private account you can make calls while keeping the account private.

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