How would I pull ~20 latest statuses from user_timeline with API 1.1 without Oauth?

jbarros360 · 2013-06-16T00:17:13.000Z

you just made my day. many thanks. oopps, what happened? wrong thread.
over to Creotec.

jbarros360 · 2013-06-16T00:17:44.000Z

you just made my day. many thanks.

lurchpop · 2013-06-16T12:49:15.000Z

It really sucks you’re doing this.

lurchpop · 2013-06-16T12:55:54.000Z

exactly the situation i’m in. I have big movie studio clients that I don’t feel comfortable creating apps that’re tied to my twitter account where i occasionally rant & rave about politics. So now i have to create a new account, set up a server stack with caching to do oAuth – THEN i can make my little customized twitter widget.

I notice now even with the embedded timeline, their out-of the box widget, I still have to attach something to my account. freakin lame!

lurchpop · 2013-06-16T12:56:55.000Z

Why is it required to “register” a timeline in the first place? Were people abusing your widgets or something?

karlodoherty · 2013-06-16T14:28:04.000Z

This is pretty handy allright. Thanks for posting it. Do you know if there are any solutions knocking about for creating a RSS feed from search terms?
Not a developer, just someone who used to use a search RSS for monitoring and with some ifttt functions that will be a pain to try and work around.

HolmanDesign · 2013-06-17T07:30:07.000Z

Many thanks Jason - nice work

Shoplog1 · 2013-06-17T12:21:17.000Z

Do u have any Code for using it with IOS ?

jason_mayes · 2013-06-17T13:01:43.000Z

Thank you If you liked it please help others find my solution.

jason_mayes · 2013-06-17T13:02:13.000Z

RT’s are welcome to help others discover it

swaminr · 2013-06-17T14:27:19.000Z

But i wonder how some application tab providers like woobox still fetch user tweets without authentication just like api 1.0… someone please clarify me… Thank you…

kylekite · 2013-06-17T21:58:21.000Z

Requiring authentication for public timelines is ridiculous.

WW_webdev · 2013-06-18T13:34:18.000Z

I mean it is still a free service & open for developers… just a few more hoops to jump through is all. I have a feeling this has a lot to do with found security flaws & possibly even twitter trying to lessen the capability of people viewing tweets without actually being on twitter.

BrandonLegault · 2013-06-18T14:32:02.000Z

I’m so glad to see that I’m not alone in this. I posted this same question (without seeing this post actually, my bad) wondering why Twitter left us COMPLETELY out to dry on this one. All I want to do is replicate the functionality of the version 1 widget, where I can just grab some tweets from the public timeline and style them myself. The version 2 widget is a slightly-less-than-adequate solution. I really hope Twitter realizes how stupid it is to do it this way… like, soon.

KasperK89 · 2013-06-19T05:56:04.000Z

@jason_mayes Your script does not work with Internet Explorer 8. This seems to be caused by “GetElementsByClassName” which is not supported by IE 8.

I tried fixing it by using querySelectorAll instead. It shows the twitter feeds, but i can’t specify how many tweets i want to show. It just always shows 20 tweets (max).

themextemplates · 2013-06-19T12:06:45.000Z

I create WordPress themes, and now Twitter widget is broken in all of my themes - sure i can use oAuth, but do i need to explain each customer that he needs to create an Application in the Twitter Developers center to show his latest tweets? Really?

gorelative · 2013-06-20T22:34:59.000Z

Dear makers of API v1.1,
go rub yourself.

Sincerely,
preturbed developer which has to update tons of client code for free >_>

davorg · 2013-06-21T10:07:31.000Z

Just realised that the Twitter RSS has stopped updating on my web site. And a number of Twitter widgets have stopped working on sites that use a Wordpress Twitter widget. I guess this is all down to this change.

What were Twitter thinking? How can this possibly benefit them?

Once again we learn the stupidity of relying on a single company’s products for an important part of our infrastructure :-/

SherDot · 2013-06-21T12:13:11.000Z

do you have javscript examples?

SherDot · 2013-06-21T12:16:35.000Z

Do you you know how to access a users home feed using oAuth in javascript? I am trying to display home feed.