OAuth Reminder

[Hayes Davis]

Hi All,

Just a friendly reminder that the basic auth deprecation has started today. Twitter will be ramping down the number of API requests allowed using basic auth over the next two weeks and will no longer be accepting basic auth calls after August 31st so make sure you switch over. 

Obtaining the OAuth tokens is outside the scope of grackle but there are several options out there to help you get that process done. A lot of Ruby people use the OAuth gem[1] but it can be a little tricky. If you're not looking to get tokens on behalf of your app's users and you just need tokens for the Twitter account you used to register your app (perhaps for background API calls), the Twitter developer[2] site provides a "My Access Token" section on the right sidebar under your app details that will save you the trouble of having to go through the steps of getting credentials using the OAuth flow.

Once you've got your tokens, it's straightforward to use grackle to make calls. Here's a gist with the basics: http://gist.github.com/527141

Hayes

[1] http://github.com/oauth/oauth-ruby

[2] http://dev.twitter.com