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Reputation: 1812

Bearer tokens not working for Twitter's public stream APIs

I've got a bearer token from api.twitter.com/oauth2/token.

However it works only with the REST APIs. Using it against public stream APIs returns me 401 unauthorized.

I can't find any oauth doc specific to stream APIs.

What am I missing?

EDIT 1

Here is the curl command I'm using for my tests:

curl --verbose \
  Streaming : -H "Authorization: Bearer <token>" \
  --get "https://stream.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/filter.json" \
  --data "follow=150367205"

Am I missing some headers? Again, it works fine for the REST APIs.

EDIT 2

I've found an answer on twittercommunity.com, dating from 2013/06, saying that Twitter's public streaming APIs don't support application-only authentication.

Is it still the case?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1272

Answers (1)

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Reputation: 1812

OK I missed a key point of Twitter's official documentation on app-only authentication:

And it won’t be able to:

* ...
* Connect in Streaming endpoints;
* ...

Upvotes: 4

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