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Mark
Mark

Reputation: 858

Angular & Twitter REST API

I've been hunting for a few hours now and can't seem to find any information specific to my setup so here goes.

I'm using the MEAN stack and wanting to use the Twitter API in my angular app. I have all the required keys and trigger a twitter api authentication on the server side using Node, then pass the token I get in response to my angular pages. I was hoping to be able to use this token to make requests to the api from an angular service. The request I'm trying to get working the moment is to fetch a given user's profile object. I've attached my service method below. The error I get when I run it is a 405 method no allowed, no access-control-allow-origin header is present.

angular.module('tms.system').factory('Twitter', ['$log', '$q', '$http', '$window', 'twitter', 'Global', function($log, $q, $http, $window, twitter, Global) {
return {
    findProfile: function(handle) {

        var deferred = $q.defer();
        var config = {
            timeout:3000,
            headers: {
                'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + Global.twitterToken,
                'X-Testing' : 'testing'
            }
        };

        $http.get('https://api.twitter.com/1.1/users/show.json?screen_name=' + handle, config).
            success(function(data) {
                $log.info(data);
                deferred.resolve(data);
            }).
            error(function(status) {
                $log.error(status);
            });

        return deferred.promise;
    }
};
}]);

Upvotes: 1

Views: 941

Answers (2)

Zura Guerra
Zura Guerra

Reputation: 51

Just for future reference, as stated in the comments of maurycy's answer {and being myself trying to get tweets just from Angular without succes}, the best approach for this would be to get them from some backend.

Upvotes: 1

maurycy
maurycy

Reputation: 8465

I believe you should use $http.jsonp with a JSON_CALLBACK to get it to work, it's not going to happen with $http.get for sure

Upvotes: 1

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