Is there any way to get your 350 rate limit calls via url?

marcelolmo1 · 2012-10-11T09:34:00.000Z

Hi guys, as you know there are two types of rate limits :

150 api calls/ip/hour : if you’re not logged in

350 api calls/ip/hour : if you’re logged in.

I’m just wondering if there’s any way to log in via URL parsing your username and password account.

Many thanks in advance!!!

episod · 2012-10-11T14:11:23.000Z

OAuth is the only means to provide a “logged in” state for a user while leveraging the API. Those rate limits reflect version 1 of the API, which is now deprecated. Version 1.1 of the API has a different rate limiting models.

Passing username and password while connecting via a URL is called “basic auth” and hasn’t been supported by Twitter for a few years for the REST API.

marcelolmo1 · 2012-10-15T12:15:00.000Z

Thanks Taylor,

but I’m still confusing about how to do this.

As far as I’m concerned, if I write the following link in my browser :

https://api.twitter.com/oauth/authorize?oauth_token=L8qq9PZyRg6ieKGEKhZolGC0vJWLw8iEJ88DRdyOg

It will recognize me as an authenticate user? Which means 350 api calls per hour?

The point is to figure out two things :

1-If my affirmation is true or not.
2- How to get my own oauth-token without doing scripts in C#, PHP, etc…

Many thanks in advance!!!

episod · 2012-10-15T14:47:31.000Z

An oauth_token is not sufficient – you need to fully sign the request using secure server-side code – pure client-side development with API v1.1 is not possible at this time. You’ll need to use server-side language to accomplish authorized requests to the API.