How can I access auth-only Twitter API methods from a web application

Question

I have a web application for iPhone, which will ultimately run within a PhoneGap application - but for now I\'m running it in Safari.

The application needs to access twe

Answer 1

I was struggling with similar problem of making JSONP requests from Jquery, the above answer helped just to add what I did to achieve my solution.

I am doing server to server oauth and then I send oauth token, secret, consumer key and secret (this is temporary solution by the time we put a proxy to protect consumer secret). You can replace this to token acquiring code at client.

Oauth.js and Sha1.js download link! Once signature is generated.

Now there are 2 problems:

1. JSONP header cannot be edited
2. Signed arguments which needs to be sent as part of oauth have problem with callback=? (a regular way of using JSONP).

As above answer says 1 cannot be done. Also, callback=? won't work as the parameter list has to be signed and while sending the request to remote server Jquery replace callback=? to some name like callback=Jquery1232453234. So a named handler has to be used.

function my_twitter_resp_handler(data){
    console.log(JSON.stringify(data));
}

and getJSON did not work with named function handler, so I used

var accessor = {
                   consumerSecret: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX,
                   tokenSecret   : XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

                 };

  var message = {  action: "https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/home_timeline.json",
                   method: "GET",
                   parameters: []
                };
  message.parameters.push(['realm', "https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/home_timeline.json"]);
  message.parameters.push(['oauth_version', '1.0']);
  message.parameters.push(['oauth_signature_method', 'HMAC-SHA1']);
  message.parameters.push(['oauth_consumer_key', XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX]);
  message.parameters.push(['oauth_token', XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX]);
  message.parameters.push(['callback', 'my_twitter_resp_handler']);

  OAuth.completeRequest(message, accessor);

  var parameterMap = OAuth.getParameterMap(message.parameters);

Create url with base url and key value pairs from parameterMap

jQuery.ajax({ 
               url: url, 
               dataType: "jsonp",
               type: "GET",
              });