How can I Authorize an Application automatically?

advansystest · 2012-09-28T07:29:28.000Z

Hi!!

I have a task at work: we’re building a site using Classic ASP (yeah, I know…) and whenever a new blog post is posted, there should be an automatic tweet about that blog post in site’s tweet account. Posting works fine, but since it needs to be automatic, I must avoid manual logging-in, authentication, etc…
So my question is: how can I Authorize an application automatically? Because I need to avoid/automatizate the https://twitter.com/oauth/authenticate?oauth_token=blablabla&force_login=true step… Any ideas? Thanx in advance ;]

episod · 2012-09-28T14:23:30.000Z

Think of the act of authenticating as something you only need to do once. You persist the values that you get as a result of that process – a oauth_token and oauth_token that equal the user’s access token. You then use that to post tweets via the API.

advansystest · 2012-10-08T14:27:23.000Z

Well, it would be perfect if the first authentication was enough, but if I want to post automatically I need to be logged-in, otherwise I get this error:
error: "Could not authenticate with OAuth."
How can I make it automatized so that the user wouldn’t need to sign-in in order to post? I’ve been stuck on this for over a week now ;/

timacheson · 2013-06-17T10:41:29.000Z

You need to use Twitter API’s “Application-only” authentication mode.

Feel free to use my ASPTwitter class as a starting point. The code already does OAuth authentication and gets tweets, and works with Twitter API 1.1. Just copy the token method and change the API URL and post data:

http://www.timacheson.com/Blog/2013/jun/asptwitter