Node.js

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

Node.js

NODEJS_PRELUDE

function chilkatExample() {

    var success = false;

    // This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
    // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

    var http = new chilkat.Http();

    http.OAuth1 = true;
    http.OAuthVerifier = "";
    http.OAuthConsumerKey = "my-consumer-key";
    http.OAuthConsumerSecret = "my-consumer-secret";
    http.OAuthToken = "my-access-token";
    http.OAuthTokenSecret = "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.

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

    req.HttpVerb = "POST";
    req.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";

    var resp = new chilkat.HttpResponse();
    success = http.HttpReq("https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/update.json",req,resp);
    if (success == false) {
        console.log(http.LastErrorText);
        return;
    }

    if (resp.StatusCode == 200) {
        // Display the JSON response.
        console.log(resp.BodyStr);
    }
    else {
        console.log(http.LastErrorText);
    }


}

chilkatExample();