Java

Twitter OAuth -- Tweet to Your Own Account

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Demonstrates how to send a tweet (status update) to your own Twitter account using pre-known credentials, which includes:

1. Consumer Key
2. Consumer Secret
3. Access Token
4. Token Secret

Chilkat2 Java

import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.ChilkatException;
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.Http;
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.HttpRequest;
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.HttpResponse;

public class ChilkatExample {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
        // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

        Http http = new Http();

        http.setOAuth1(true);
        http.setOAuthVerifier("");
        http.setOAuthConsumerKey("my-consumer-key");
        http.setOAuthConsumerSecret("my-consumer-secret");
        http.setOAuthToken("my-access-token");
        http.setOAuthTokenSecret("my-token-secret");

        // Send the same status update as shown in this example:
        // https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/post/statuses/update

        // IMPORTANT: Make sure this app has read/write access.
        // Otherwise it cannot post an update (i.e. tweet) to the Twitter account.

        HttpRequest req = new HttpRequest();
        req.addParam("status", "Maybe he'll finally find his keys. #peterfalk");

        req.setHttpVerb("POST");
        req.setContentType("application/x-www-form-urlencoded");

        HttpResponse resp = new HttpResponse();
        try {
            http.httpReq("https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/update.json", req, resp);
        } catch (ChilkatException e) {
            System.out.println(e.getLastErrorText());
            return;
        }

        if (resp.getStatusCode() == 200) {
            // Display the JSON response.
            System.out.println(resp.getBodyStr());
        } else {
            System.out.println(http.getLastErrorText());
        }
    }
}