Problem using twitter with cURL

[rajashekar]

I used

curl --cookie tcookie --cookie-jar tcookie --data
"username_or_email=twitusername&password=twitpass& commit=Sign In"
http:~~twitter.com~login

I am able to get the session cookies but when i want to tweet a
"direct message" to my friend

When i do

curl --cookie tcookie --data "text=Testing cURL" --data 'udpate=send'
--output twitt.html --location http:~~twitter.com~direct_messages~create~friendna me

Note: please replace ~ with /. (Forum is not allowing me to post direct urls).

But nothing happens, it is not working.

Not sure what i missed, any help is much appreciated.

[natediddy]

hey man,

I think your problem is due to Twitter (and most other social networking sites) upgrading from BasicAuth, to OAuth authorization when using their API's.

I'm about 98% positive this move to OAuth eliminates the old shell `curl' Twitter trick.

BasicAuth basically just required a username and password in order to gain access to Twitter's API features. OAuth on the other hand alleviates the use of passwords/usernames when using the API. OAuth basically requests access tokens from the specific Twitter application's provided request key/secret tokens.

If you know any Python, I would suggest looking into Tweepy by JoshTheCoder for your Twitter command-line needs =)

(I cannot post URL's to other sites yet as I have < 15 posts here. But in other words, go to `github . com /joshthecoder /tweepy')

Hope this helps!