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SF Developer
SF Developer

Reputation: 5384

How do you use the Twitter Rest API

From my website, I would like any user to be able to tweet a specific url with an image to their Twitter accounts.

I have tried using the Button Widget but it seems I cannot embed media. To do that I need to use the Twitter REST API.

Question:
1) How do I set my webpage to use the Twitter REST API?
2) What Script do I import?
3) How do I ensure that we check first if the user is logged?
4) How do I ensure that the popup does not get blocked by the browser?

I cannot find anything that helps me on this basic steps online so I hope somebody here can help me start this project.

Many thanks in advanced.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1064

Answers (1)

MattRogowski
MattRogowski

Reputation: 866

The answer to most of your questions is to use a Twitter OAuth library and read up on the docs on Twitter's development site.

A library I have used is TwitterOAuth; this will take care of the authentication for you, and give you an easy way to make authenticated API calls.

Then, you will need to look at https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/post/statuses/update and/or https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/post/statuses/update_with_media.

Upvotes: 1

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