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Asked: 2026-06-13T10:55:27+00:00

I’m working on a basic personal homepage, consists of a single html document, a

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I’m working on a basic personal homepage, consists of a single html document, a .css and jquery*.js file. I want to create a blog-ish look via fetching page content from tweets. The standart widget doesn’t fit to the look of the page.

I can fetch public tweets from any account with no authentication crap (it’s crap because it public data anyway) via API v1. But with API v1.1, it returns authentication error. It wants me to authenticate to fetch public data. Try to navigate this url. it shows ({"errors":[{"message":"Bad Authentication data","code":215}]});.

My question is is there a way to fetch public tweets via client side js? I don’t want to create an app to just fetch public data. I don’t wan’t to use identi.ca or else, but Twitter pushes me to do.

Upon the comment of Zachary Kinebel to Norguard’s answer, I thought, as a comment of Norguard’s might be helpful to others, I should put it here:

/search.json?q=from:nerdswguitars === recent tweets by NerdsWGuitars /search.json?q=to:nerdswguitars === recent tweets to NerdsWGuitars /search.json?q=from:nerdswguitars OR to:nerdswguitars === both. /search.json?q=@nerdswguitars === posts involving NerdsWGuitars. /search.json?q=#nerdswithguitars === posts trending “nerdswithguitars”. But you MUST make sure that you’re properly URL encoding the query. Read more here: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/using-search and if you can’t find what it is that you’re looking for, out of this, then you need to be a lot more specific

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  1. Editorial Team

    EDIT

    In the wonderful world of bad ideas, Twitter is sunsetting this answer, as of May 2013, and will require, at minimum, that you either use one of their widgets, and shoehorn it in, or that you set up an application and do application-level authentication, even for public-timeline GET requests.

    If they change their mind, or delay the throwing of the switch, this will at least continue to be here.

    Use the Search API:

    "http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=nerdswguitars"

    You can use the URL-encoded # or @ in front of search terms. You can also use keywords like from or to, and specify limits, et cetera.

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