PureBasic

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

PureBasic

IncludeFile "CkHttpResponse.pb"
IncludeFile "CkHttp.pb"
IncludeFile "CkHttpRequest.pb"

Procedure ChilkatExample()

    success.i = 0

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

    http.i = CkHttp::ckCreate()
    If http.i = 0
        Debug "Failed to create object."
        ProcedureReturn
    EndIf

    CkHttp::setCkOAuth1(http, 1)
    CkHttp::setCkOAuthVerifier(http, "")
    CkHttp::setCkOAuthConsumerKey(http, "my-consumer-key")
    CkHttp::setCkOAuthConsumerSecret(http, "my-consumer-secret")
    CkHttp::setCkOAuthToken(http, "my-access-token")
    CkHttp::setCkOAuthTokenSecret(http, "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.

    req.i = CkHttpRequest::ckCreate()
    If req.i = 0
        Debug "Failed to create object."
        ProcedureReturn
    EndIf

    CkHttpRequest::ckAddParam(req,"status","Maybe he'll finally find his keys. #peterfalk")

    CkHttpRequest::setCkHttpVerb(req, "POST")
    CkHttpRequest::setCkContentType(req, "application/x-www-form-urlencoded")

    resp.i = CkHttpResponse::ckCreate()
    If resp.i = 0
        Debug "Failed to create object."
        ProcedureReturn
    EndIf

    success = CkHttp::ckHttpReq(http,"https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/update.json",req,resp)
    If success = 0
        Debug CkHttp::ckLastErrorText(http)
        CkHttp::ckDispose(http)
        CkHttpRequest::ckDispose(req)
        CkHttpResponse::ckDispose(resp)
        ProcedureReturn
    EndIf

    If CkHttpResponse::ckStatusCode(resp) = 200
        ; Display the JSON response.
        Debug CkHttpResponse::ckBodyStr(resp)
    Else
        Debug CkHttp::ckLastErrorText(http)
    EndIf



    CkHttp::ckDispose(http)
    CkHttpRequest::ckDispose(req)
    CkHttpResponse::ckDispose(resp)


    ProcedureReturn
EndProcedure