Question

i am using omniauth to authenticate a user via twitter. omniauth provides access tokens. now i want to send the get or post request to twitter. i dont want to use any gems. i want to do with net::http.

even in twitter api documentation ! I am not able to find a good tutorial for this

can any one help? thanks

Answer 1

Here it is exactly what you need, so, since you’ve got the token and the secret from omniauth, now you are going to use it:

def prepare_access_token(oauth_token, oauth_token_secret)
  consumer = OAuth::Consumer.new("APIKey", "APISecret", { :site => "https://api.twitter.com", :request_token_path => '/oauth/request_token', :access_token_path => '/oauth/access_token', :authorize_path => '/oauth/authorize', :scheme => :header })
  token_hash = { :oauth_token => oauth_token, :oauth_token_secret => oauth_token_secret }  
  access_token = OAuth::AccessToken.from_hash(consumer, token_hash )
  access_token
end

Then you, for example, post a tweet:

msg = {'status' => 'Hey look I can tweet via OAuth!'}
access_token = prepare_access_token(token, secret)
response = access_token.post('https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/update.json', msg, { 'Accept' => 'application/xml' })

Read the article presented on the link for more informations.