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Boaz
Boaz

Reputation: 26129

Does Twitter support the 2-legged oAuth protocol?

The oAuth protocol comes in two flavors, 3-legged and 2-legged protocols. The 3-legged one is about delegating user access rights to an application and is the one that gets the most attention on the web. The 2-legged version is used to authenticate an application against a service provider (Twitter in my case) with no specific user involved.

In my application I need read only access to publicly available information, but at higher rate than the one available to unauthenticated request. There is no need for me to authenticate as a specific Twitter user.

Does Twitter support the 2-legged version of oAuth?

Boaz

PS. The whitelisting alternative is an overkill for me and I rather not wait for the approval process.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1021

Answers (1)

abraham
abraham

Reputation: 47863

You can get an access token for a single user following these instructions: http://dev.twitter.com/pages/oauth_single_token

Upvotes: 1

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