From: skim <skim.la@...>
Date: 2010-09-17T14:06:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Twitter script since oAuth

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You can use the twitter gem to post once you have the oauth token or even
look at this gem that does both http://github.com/moomerman/twitter_oauth

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 23:46, Jeff Greelish <jeff.greelish@gmail.com>wrote:

> I had a script working with basic authinecation pulling from out local
> database and sending updates to twitter, about 12 a month.  Not any
> crazy traffic.  Since Aug 31st they turned off basic authineciton.  Ive
> tried to implement the follow and it appears to work (pulls back a json
> file per the example.  Tested this by puts the line to the screen.
>
> I can not, figure out how to post an update to it.  Im fairly new (well
> not new, but dont do it full time) to programming and I must be missing
> something.
>
> Here is the script I am following.  Bottom of page for the ruby script,
> just cant figure out how to pst an update to the timeline.
> [code]
> # Exchange your oauth_token and oauth_token_secret for an AccessToken
> instance.
> def prepare_access_token(oauth_token, oauth_token_secret)
>  consumer = OAuth::Consumer.new("APIKey", "APISecret",
>    { :site => "http://api.twitter.com",
>      :scheme => :header
>    })
>  # now create the access token object from passed values
>  token_hash = { :oauth_token => oauth_token,
>                 :oauth_token_secret => oauth_token_secret
>               }
>  access_token = OAuth::AccessToken.from_hash(consumer, token_hash )
>  return access_token
> end
>
> # Exchange our oauth_token and oauth_token secret for the AccessToken
> instance.
> access_token = prepare_access_token("abcdefg", "hijklmnop")
> # use the access token as an agent to get the home timeline
> response = access_token.request(:get,
> "http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/home_timeline.json")
> [/code]
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