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nanochrome

Reputation: 727

Twitter OAuth with MGTwitterEngine

I'm using the MGTwitterEngine to connect to twitter and I want to use OAuth with the MGTwitterEngine?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4906

Answers (5)

WorkingMatt
WorkingMatt

Reputation: 657

After having a look at STTwitter, FHSTwitterEngine and MGTwitterEngine I ended up using OAuthConsumer available through github.

My reasons for this were that I was writing an app for Mac OSX Lion in XCode with Objective-C. Most of the OAuth/Twitter code out there was either for other languages, iOS-specific or quite out of date and full of deprecated calls.

Apple's SDK 10.8 now has a social.framework (includes SLRequest) and and accounts.framework (includes ACAccount) which should be really useful for accessing FB, Twitter and some other social site I didn't recognise. Unfortunately that was no good for me working under 10.7 so I did not try those out practically. Would be interested to know anyone's experiences under 10.8.

OAuthConsumer was really straight forward to use to get through Twitter's API properly and is available in a few different languages. You do need to sort out your own JSON etc. but that's pretty straight-forward with NSJSONSerialization etc.

I've written up more detail on this on my blog Twitter OAuth Cocoa. If you need an OAuth, twitter-friendly bit of code, and the function-rich twitter engines aren't working for you then I'd recommend OAuthConsumer.

Upvotes: 0

scootklein
scootklein

Reputation: 708

i would highly suggest using xAuth instead of OAuth as the process on the user's end doesn't at all change. i wrote a tutorial about how I got it to work on iPhone only if it helps. http://www.2bros1blog.com/2010/07/switching-from-basic-to-xauth-with-mgtwitterengine-on-iphone/

Upvotes: 1

Ben Lachman
Ben Lachman

Reputation: 3102

The master branch has merged OAuth and xAuth support back in.

Upvotes: 8

catsby
catsby

Reputation: 11342

There's a modified version of MGTwitterEngine on GitHub that is supposed to use OAuth: http://github.com/kimptoc/MGTwitterEngine-1.0.8-OAuth/

Upvotes: 6

RyanWilcox
RyanWilcox

Reputation: 13974

I suspect that if the MGTwitterEngine doesn't implement OAuth, it soon will, or will need support for it soon.

I'd suggest seeing if the current development version supports it, and if not -- and you have the motivation -- working on a patch for this functionality.

Upvotes: 0

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