Using JTwitter without OAuth

[Eric Mill]

Is there an easy way to integrate JTwitter into an Android app without needing to set up an OAuth dependency? 

Minor background: I've been using JTwitter v1.2.2 in my app, Congress, for a long while now (I give credit to JTwitter in the About dialog). I don't do anything that depends on OAuth, I just fetch various user's public timelines and display them in a basic list. I'd like to keep up with JTwitter's latest updates, but I don't think it'll be worth doing if I have to integrate OAuth code that I won't use.

-- Eric

[Dobes Vandermeer]

If you are literally only fetching public timelines then JTwitter is probably overkill anyway, you could get a JSON library instead and read the timeline directly and it wouldn't take you long to "roll your own".   Or just make your own fork of JTwitter and delete everything you don't use (including the dependency on OAuth).   I think the majority of JTwitter's functionality is related to authenticated operations like posting tweets, updating lists, and so on.  As long as your code works there's not much value in staying up to date with JTwitter's future updates, the way public timelines are fetched from the Twitter API probably won't change much in the next few years.

[Eric Mill]

You're probably right. I did at one point have my own Twitter JSON client, and switched to JTwitter because I supported replies in-app, which I ditched after they mandated OAuth support. I'll just leave it be.

-- Eric

[Daniel Winterstein]

You should be able to use JTwitter whilst ignoring the oauth stuff. If
you use the no-arg Twitter() constructor, and stay off the methods
that do require authentication. The Twitter class shouldn't have any
oauth dependencies itself.
Best regards,
- Daniel

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