C++

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

C++

#include <CkHttp.h>
#include <CkHttpRequest.h>
#include <CkHttpResponse.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    bool success = false;

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

    CkHttp http;

    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;
    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;
    success = http.HttpReq("https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/update.json",req,resp);
    if (success == false) {
        std::cout << http.lastErrorText() << "\r\n";
        return;
    }

    if (resp.get_StatusCode() == 200) {
        // Display the JSON response.
        std::cout << resp.bodyStr() << "\r\n";
    }
    else {
        std::cout << http.lastErrorText() << "\r\n";
    }
    }