Twitter API for bios

[geraintwhite]

It would be nice to use the twitter API for getting our bios.

API 1.1 requires authentication for all requests, and JavaScript cannot authenticate using Oauth. It must be done server side.

[olls]

http://www.timacheson.com/Blog/2013/jul/twitter_api_proxy

[geraintwhite]

Have you tried it? On 17 Mar 2014 08:18, "Oliver Faircliff" notifications@github.com wrote:

http://www.timacheson.com/Blog/2013/jul/twitter_api_proxy

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/itsapi/portfolio/issues/9#issuecomment-37792777 .

[geraintwhite]

Did you read that it is for ASP.NET?

[olls]

Yes, I was using it as an example of something we could build/find alternate.

[geraintwhite]

I looked, oauth can't be done in JavaScript. We'd have to have a server side authenticator. On 17 Mar 2014 17:13, "Oliver Faircliff" notifications@github.com wrote:

Yes, I was using it as an example of something we could build/find alternate.

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/itsapi/portfolio/issues/9#issuecomment-37842674 .

[olls]

I know, that's the point of this, it does the server side authenticating and acts as a proxy for us to access the API.

[olls]

Using YQL as the proxy: http://derek.io/blog/2010/how-to-secure-oauth-in-javascript/ a bit old, might still work.

[olls]

Using Node for the server side auth: https://gist.github.com/olls/1ccbac5e4310721efa17

[olls]

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