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Rene
Rene

Reputation: 33

How can I allow a user to post to Twitter from my JavaScript/PhoneGap application?

I'm trying to implement a little Javascript/PhoneGap utility that can post a tweet on twitter.

So far I've got this:

var authorize_url = 'https://oauth.twitter.com/2/authorize';
authorize_url += '?oauth_callback_url=' + encodeURIComponent(mycallbackUrl);
authorize_url += '&oauth_mode=flow_web_client';
authorize_url += '&oauth_client_identifier=' +*****;
authorize_url += '&response_type=token';
authorize_url += '&client_id' + *****;

This resulting URL will show me the twitter login screen, and after I login, the callback url is shown with two paramaters; oauth_access_token and oauth_bridge_code

So far so good, but the next part is confusing me.

Is this oauth_access_token I'm getting enough to do a tweet on behalf of the user? Or do I have to take further authentication steps? If not, how can I use the token in the call to http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/update.json to actually post a tweet?

The twitter API docs can't help me out so all help is very much appreciated!

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1337

Answers (2)

tilak
tilak

Reputation: 4701

var mediaSource = "http://twitter.com/home?status={TITLE}";
mediaSource = mediaSource.replace('{TITLE}',"Text to share in Twitter");

window.location = mediaSource;

this may help you.

Upvotes: 1

abraham
abraham

Reputation: 47873

You are using an unsupported method of authentication that Twitter could change/break at anytime. It is recommended that you use the officially supported OAuth flow. https://dev.twitter.com/pages/auth

Upvotes: 0

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