Public user_timeline access without oAuth

whalespine · 2013-06-15T18:04:34.000Z

It appears that user_timeline requires oAuth which is crazy. I have a Wordpress plugin which many users install on their own servers, so it doesn’t seem like creating a Twitter App as some of the documentation suggests will work, since I don’t want to distribute my tokens with the plugin. I also don’t want to have all the plugin users create their own app. Is there any way to access the public (i.e. NOT protected) timelines using the API? I guess I could always scrape the public timeline on twitter.com, but this seems ridiculous.

Tim

whalespine · 2013-06-23T21:25:55.000Z

Nevermind

ChandeshParekh · 2013-06-27T08:03:04.000Z

Hi Tim, did you find a solution for this issue? I too have a WP plugin which enables users to pull in their twitter timeline but can’t see a way to do that without each user ‘authorising’ it…

schumi1331 · 2013-06-27T20:34:27.000Z

Same question here. I have some apps displaying a feed of a person, including Twitter, Facebook and other networks. I don’t see the reason why a user should need to sign into Twitter for this app to display tweets in that feed.

Application-only auth is not an option as this is limited to just 300 API calls/15 mins.

whalespine · 2013-06-27T20:38:15.000Z

No, I didn’t end up finding a better solution than the one at here … http://www.webdevdoor.com/php/authenticating-twitter-feed-timeline-oauth/

The upgrade worked, but not sure how many users are going to go through the process of setting up a Twitter App.