I am having trouble using twitter stream API in C#

vurankml · 2017-12-28T00:48:04.006Z

Hi,

Is there any simple code to run for use twitter streaming API. I get my token using “https://api.twitter.com/oauth2/token” but then, when I try to send request for “https://stream.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/sample.json” using that token I get unauthorized exception.
This works fine for requests like “https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json”. What I am missing here?

Thanks,
Vukasin

drakecode · 2017-12-29T17:32:13.068Z

Perhaps you are authenticating as an app instead of a user? Some endpoints require that you authenticate as a user. That might be the issue you are facing with your call to the sample stream.

Authentication as an application

Using OAuth

And more importantly, how to get your user auth token. This is relevant if the app you are building only needs to access API endpoints as one user (most likely yourself) and not a collection of users.