I think Twitter’s OAuth-only Access is a Waste of Time

Re:I think Twitter’s OAuth-only Access is a Waste of Time by paulgb on Friday September 03, 2010 @07:19PM (#1661477)

I wrote a simple script to post an RSS feed that my university uses to twitter. (Actually, I hacked up Stammy's It currently has about 190 followers, but it used Basic Auth so it stopped working on Thursday.

Rather than switching to OAuth, I'm tempted to just write a mechanize script to make posts using the web interface. Has anybody tried this approach?

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Re:I think Twitter’s OAuth-only Access is a Waste of Time by jschuur on Friday September 03, 2010 @11:03PM (#1661875)

You could just use http://twitterfeed.com. Unless of course your script modifies the RSS data significantly before posting it.

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Re:I think Twitter’s OAuth-only Access is a Waste of Time by miguelpais on Friday September 03, 2010 @07:53PM (#1661549)

I have made exactly the same thing! But now I guess I'll either read their documentation or use one of the scripts/libs listed above.

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Re:I think Twitter’s OAuth-only Access is a Waste of Time by kidsat on Friday September 03, 2010 @08:19PM (#1661593)

I've written such a script to hit the website directly. That "API" is far flakier than the basic auth version.

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