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Asked: 2026-05-14T04:57:45+00:00

to start off, I know C++, C#, Python, some Ruby, and basic Javascript. Anyway,

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to start off, I know C++, C#, Python, some Ruby, and basic Javascript. Anyway, my question revolves around how to interact with RESTful API’s via Javascript. I haven’t been able to find any good examples on various websites, and so I’ve come here.

So my basic question is: How do I interact with RESTful API’s via JS? And where can I find out how to implement OAuth in JS? I know how to get my keys and such, just not how to actually code them in.

Below is an example of a twitter API status update run from my MAC terminal with curl:

curl -u username:password 
-d "my tweet" 
http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/update.json

How can I implement this in Javascript (preferably with OAuth authentication)? This would at least start me going in the right direction.

Thanks so much!!

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  1. Editorial Team

    The problem is that you will need to use AJAX to query the remote REST API, and AJAX is only allowed to query resources on the same domain as the page. So, a request to api.twitter.com will fail because it is on a different domain than your server.

    To correct this you will need to code your server to make the request to twitter. You can however create your own AJAX stubs that will accept data directly from your page, and then build / send requests to twitter server-side using data supplied by your client.

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