Visual FoxPro

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

Visual FoxPro

LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loHttp
LOCAL loReq
LOCAL loResp

lnSuccess = 0

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

loHttp = CreateObject('Chilkat.Http')

loHttp.OAuth1 = 1
loHttp.OAuthVerifier = ""
loHttp.OAuthConsumerKey = "my-consumer-key"
loHttp.OAuthConsumerSecret = "my-consumer-secret"
loHttp.OAuthToken = "my-access-token"
loHttp.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.

loReq = CreateObject('Chilkat.HttpRequest')
loReq.AddParam("status","Maybe he'll finally find his keys. #peterfalk")

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

loResp = CreateObject('Chilkat.HttpResponse')
lnSuccess = loHttp.HttpReq("https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/update.json",loReq,loResp)
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loHttp.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loHttp
    RELEASE loReq
    RELEASE loResp
    CANCEL
ENDIF

IF (loResp.StatusCode = 200) THEN
    * Display the JSON response.
    ? loResp.BodyStr
ELSE
    ? loHttp.LastErrorText
ENDIF

RELEASE loHttp
RELEASE loReq
RELEASE loResp