I have a user and a password and I’d like to use Twitter API (I’m using python-twitter) to check if those are valid data.
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I have a user and a password and I’d like to use Twitter API (I’m using python-twitter) to check if those are valid data.
If you grab the 0.7 version of python-twitter, a VerifyCredentials method has been added. If the returned value is
Nonethen the username/password combo was incorrect.I liked using
api.GetUser(username)first to check if they provided a valid username and then usingapi.VerifyCredentials()to check the password — this way I could informed the user which part of their login was incorrect.As others have mentioned, Twitter is pushing for OAuth logins only and are expected to deprecate the existing username/passwd login method.