(SQL Server) Twitter - Application Only Authentication

Demonstrates how to get a Twitter OAuth2 token for application-only authentication.

This allows you to issue authenticated requests on behalf of the application itself (as opposed to on behalf of a specific user). You don’t have the context of an authenticated user and this means that any request to API for endpoints that require user context, such as posting Tweets, will not work. However, the set of endpoints that will still be available can have a higher rate limit.

Your app will be able to, for example:

• Pull user timelines;
• Access friends and followers of any account;
• Access lists resources;
• Search in Tweets;
• Retrieve any user information;

And it will not be able to:

• Post Tweets or other resources;
• Connect to Streaming endpoints;
• Search for users;
• Use any geo endpoint;
• Access Direct Messages or account credentials;

Chilkat ActiveX Downloads ActiveX for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows

// Important: See this note about string length limitations for strings returned by sp_OAMethod calls.
//
CREATE PROCEDURE ChilkatSample
AS
BEGIN
    DECLARE @hr int
    DECLARE @iTmp0 int
    DECLARE @sTmp0 nvarchar(4000)
    -- It requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
    -- See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

    -- Note: Define your Twitter apps at https://apps.twitter.com/

    -- We're going to send an HTTPS POST that looks like this:

    -- POST /oauth2/token HTTP/1.1
    -- Host: api.twitter.com
    -- User-Agent: My Twitter App v1.0.23
    -- Authorization: Basic eHZ6MWV2RlM0d0VFUFRHRUZQSEJvZzpMOHFxOVBaeVJn
    --                      NmllS0dFS2hab2xHQzB2SldMdzhpRUo4OERSZHlPZw==
    -- Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8
    -- Content-Length: 29
    -- Accept-Encoding: gzip
    -- 
    -- grant_type=client_credentials

    -- Update these values with your consumer key and secret (also known as API key and API secret).
    DECLARE @consumerKey nvarchar(4000)
    SELECT @consumerKey = 'TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY'
    DECLARE @consumerSecret nvarchar(4000)
    SELECT @consumerSecret = 'TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET'

    DECLARE @http int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat_9_5_0.Http', @http OUT
    IF @hr <> 0
    BEGIN
        PRINT 'Failed to create ActiveX component'
        RETURN
    END

    EXEC sp_OASetProperty @http, 'BasicAuth', 1
    EXEC sp_OASetProperty @http, 'Login', @consumerKey
    EXEC sp_OASetProperty @http, 'Password', @consumerSecret

    DECLARE @req int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat_9_5_0.HttpRequest', @req OUT

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @req, 'AddParam', NULL, 'grant_type', 'client_credentials'

    DECLARE @resp int
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @http, 'PostUrlEncoded', @resp OUT, 'https://api.twitter.com/oauth2/token', @req
    EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @http, 'LastMethodSuccess', @iTmp0 OUT
    IF @iTmp0 <> 1
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @http, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @http
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @req
        RETURN
      END


    EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @resp, 'StatusCode', @iTmp0 OUT
    PRINT 'Response Status Code: ' + @iTmp0

    EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @resp, 'StatusCode', @iTmp0 OUT
    IF @iTmp0 <> 200
      BEGIN

        PRINT 'Expected a 200 response status code for success.'
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @resp, 'BodyStr', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @http
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @req
        RETURN
      END

    -- We should get a JSON response like this:

    -- {
    --     "token_type":"bearer",
    --     "access_token":"..."
    -- }

    DECLARE @json int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat_9_5_0.JsonObject', @json OUT

    DECLARE @success int
    EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @resp, 'BodyStr', @sTmp0 OUT
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'Load', @success OUT, @sTmp0


    EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'StringOf', @sTmp0 OUT, 'access_token'
    PRINT 'Access token = ' + @sTmp0

    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @resp


    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @http
    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @req
    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @json


END
GO