Java

Twitter OAuth -- Tweet to Your Own Account

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Demonstrates how to send a tweet (status update) to your own Twitter account using pre-known credentials, which includes:

1. Consumer Key
2. Consumer Secret
3. Access Token
4. Token Secret

Java

import com.chilkatsoft.*;

public class ChilkatExample {

  static {
    try {
        System.loadLibrary("chilkat");
    } catch (UnsatisfiedLinkError e) {
      System.err.println("Native code library failed to load.\n" + e);
      System.exit(1);
    }
  }

  public static void main(String argv[])
  {
    boolean success = false;

    // This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
    // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

    CkHttp http = new CkHttp();

    http.put_OAuth1(true);
    http.put_OAuthVerifier("");
    http.put_OAuthConsumerKey("my-consumer-key");
    http.put_OAuthConsumerSecret("my-consumer-secret");
    http.put_OAuthToken("my-access-token");
    http.put_OAuthTokenSecret("my-token-secret");

    // Send the same status update as shown in this example:
    // https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/post/statuses/update

    // IMPORTANT: Make sure this app has read/write access.  
    // Otherwise it cannot post an update (i.e. tweet) to the Twitter account.

    CkHttpRequest req = new CkHttpRequest();
    req.AddParam("status","Maybe he'll finally find his keys. #peterfalk");

    req.put_HttpVerb("POST");
    req.put_ContentType("application/x-www-form-urlencoded");

    CkHttpResponse resp = new CkHttpResponse();
    success = http.HttpReq("https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/update.json",req,resp);
    if (success == false) {
        System.out.println(http.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    if (resp.get_StatusCode() == 200) {
        // Display the JSON response.
        System.out.println(resp.bodyStr());
        }
    else {
        System.out.println(http.lastErrorText());
        }
  }
}