Twitter webhook registration error | {“errors”:[{“code”:32,“message”:“Could not authenticate you.”}]}

[VivekRajak]

when I try to register the twitter web-hook, api returns the error message “Could not authenticate you” . I am using postman for twitter api v1.1.

[jessicagarson]

Thanks for reaching out here. I have a few follow up questions here:

1. Which API are you using?
2. You may need to use a bearer token - here is a curl command that I’ve used in the past to generate a bearer token:

curl -u "API key:API secret key" \
   --data 'grant_type=client_credentials' \
   ‘https://api.twitter.com/oauth2/token’

You will also need to make sure that your auth type in postman is selected as bearer token instead of OAuth 1.0.

Hope this helps!

Jessica

[VivekRajak]

webhook activation api is using.
https://api.twitter.com/1.1/account_activity/all/p/webhooks.json

p is

when is pass bearer token instead of OAuth 1.0 given below error.

{
“errors”: [
{
“code”: 261,
“message”: "Application cannot perform write actions. Contact Twitter Platform Operations through https://help.twitter.com/forms/platform."
}
]
}

[jessicagarson]

Thanks for following up here.

I saw that you were trying to hit an endpoint entitled “webhooks”, do you also have a dev environment entitled “webhooks”, if not you might want to change the name to the corresponding dev environment.

[VivekRajak]

linvi/tweetinvi

Now i am using tweetinvi dll for Webhooks activation is working.

{
    "environments": [
        {
            "environment_name": "p",
            "webhooks": [
                {
                    "id": "**********************",
                    "url": "https://**************/*******************/Bot/Receive",
                    "valid": true,
                    "created_timestamp": "2018-10-02 18:36:51 +0000"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

but when i did checking subscriptions count result of given.

{
    "account_name": "*****************",
    "subscriptions_count": "1"
}

instead of this

and how to get message from Customer ?

hope you understood my problem ?

[andypiper]

Hey there.

Thanks for raising this! It looks like we need to update that documentation page, because the example you’ve found refers to the Direct Message-only Account Activity API that existed during the beta period. Now that the API is live, that response message example is incorrect - sorry about that, we’ll get it fixed up!

You should expect Direct Message events to arrive on your webhook when the account you’ve subscribed to the webhook with sends or receives a new Direct Message.

[VivekRajak]

webhook activation is done.
when i request this url with header pass Bearer Token is given response Below .
URL : https://api.twitter.com/1.1/account_activity/all/webhooks.json
Respone :
{
“environments”: [
{
“environment_name”: “p”,
“webhooks”: [
{
“id”: “*******************",
“url”: "https:///smartTALK-webhook/Webhook/Receive”,
“valid”: true,
“created_timestamp”: “2018-10-03 08:08:55 +0000”
}
]
}
]
}

but still not received and message after webhook activation.

Please help me how to receiving new Direct messages.

this is my code in c# mvc

 public ActionResult Receive()
        {
            GlobalObjects _GlobalObjects = new GlobalObjects();

            WriteLog1.WriteInfoLog(_GlobalObjects, "Receive()", "0");


            string tokensecret = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["AccessSecret"];
            string tokenkey = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["AccessToken"];
            string consumerkey = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["ConsumerKey"];
            string consumersecret = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["ConsumerSecret"];


            //return View();
            var query = Request.QueryString;
            WriteLog1.WriteInfoLog(_GlobalObjects, "query", query.ToString());
            //  _logWriter.WriteLine(Request.RawUrl);
            if (query["crc_token"] != null)
            {
                //  WriteLog1.WriteInfoLog(_GlobalObjects, "Receive()", "1");
                System.Text.UTF8Encoding encoding = new System.Text.UTF8Encoding();
                //   WriteLog1.WriteInfoLog(_GlobalObjects, "Receive()", "2");

                byte[] keyByte = encoding.GetBytes(consumersecret);
                //   WriteLog1.WriteInfoLog(_GlobalObjects, "Receive()", "3");
                HMACSHA256 hmacsha256 = new HMACSHA256(keyByte);
                //   WriteLog1.WriteInfoLog(_GlobalObjects, "Receive()", "4");
                byte[] messageBytes = encoding.GetBytes(query["crc_token"]);
                //   WriteLog1.WriteInfoLog(_GlobalObjects, "Receive()", "5");
                byte[] hashmessage = hmacsha256.ComputeHash(messageBytes);
                //   WriteLog1.WriteInfoLog(_GlobalObjects, "Receive()", "6");
                string hashstring = Convert.ToString(hashmessage);
                //   WriteLog1.WriteInfoLog(_GlobalObjects, "hashstring ", hashstring.ToString());

                string response_token = Convert.ToBase64String(hashmessage);
                //   WriteLog1.WriteInfoLog(_GlobalObjects, "response_token ", response_token.ToString());

                string sha256responsetoken = "sha256=" + response_token;

                //WriteLog1.WriteInfoLog(_GlobalObjects, "sha256responsetoken ", sha256responsetoken.ToString());

                // StringBuilder b = new StringBuilder("\"response_token\":");
                //  b.Append("\"sha256=" + sha256responsetoken+"\"");
                // string json = "{" +b.ToString() + "}";
                string jsonData = "{\"response_token\":\"" + sha256responsetoken + "\"}";
                //response _response = new response();
                //_response.response_token = sha256responsetoken;


                //string json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(_response);

                //dynamic data = JObject.Parse(jsonData);


                return Content(jsonData, "application/json");
            }

           
            return HttpNotFound();
           

        }

        [ActionName("Receive")]
        [AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post)]
        public ActionResult ReceivePost(object data)
        {

            GlobalObjects _GlobalObjects = new GlobalObjects();

            WriteLog1.WriteInfoLog(_GlobalObjects, "ReceivePost()", "");

            string dataToApi = "";
            try
            {
                // dataToApi = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(data) + ",";
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {

                WriteLog1.WriteErrorLog(_GlobalObjects, "ReceivePost()", " convert to string ", ex.StackTrace);
            }


            try
            {
                string ReadCEQueueName = System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["SendToQueueName"].ToString();

                //  SmartMsmqAdeptor.MSMQAdaptor _smarttalkwebreference = new SmartMsmqAdeptor.MSMQAdaptor();
                // var me = _smarttalkwebreference.SendToPrivateQueue(dataToApi, ReadCEQueueName);


            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                WriteLog1.WriteErrorLog(_GlobalObjects, "ReceivePost()", " send to api ", ex.StackTrace);

            }

            return new HttpStatusCodeResult(HttpStatusCode.OK);
        }

[pintupal007]

Twitter Team,
We are kind of stuck in middle. We are not able to move forward because of this situation. Appreciate your urgent help to resolve this issue.

We still unable to receive message on our Webhook after doing all the suggested changes.

Thanks.

[andypiper]

So far, the thread refers to webhook registration, not to user account subscriptions.

To clarify:

• you have an active webhook (valid: true) listening on an HTTP endpoint
• you have one or more active subscriptions for user accounts on that endpoint
• when activities occur on those accounts, you are not receiving inbound HTTP traffic with messages to your webhook?

[pintupal007]

Hello Andy,
Thanks a lot for your help. Now we are receiving messages through webhook.

Thanks

[hmz]