The user’s email address can not be retrieved via the API. This is a deliberate design decision by the API team. UPDATE 2015.08.18: It is possible to request an email address from users, but it requires your app to be whitelisted. See https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/account/verify_credentials for details of the API call and this form to request whitelisting … Read more
So the unsatisfying resolution appears to be that the Twitter API does not support CORS. This seems a little astonishing to me, as it means that the API cannot be used from a browser. That policy decision is probably related to their OAuth implementation, which is vulnerable to anyone with access to the calling platform. … Read more
So you REALLY don’t want to do this client-side anymore. (Just went through numerous docs, and devs suggest to do all oAuth server-side) What you need to do: First: sign up on https://dev.twitter.com, and make a new application. Second: NOTE: Your Consumer Key / Secret along with Access Token / Secret Third: Download Twitter OAuth … Read more
I had received the error you described above in the past, but this has worked for me. #======================================================================================= ## ON windows, we need to dowload the certificate for OAUTH ## NOTE: you will need to setup an app on Twitter ## dev.twitter.com <- get your KEY/SECRET #======================================================================================= ########################################################################## ## Load packages ########################################################################## library(twitteR) library(ROAuth) ## … Read more
The user’s email address can not be retrieved via the API. This is a deliberate design decision by the API team. UPDATE 2015.08.18: It is possible to request an email address from users, but it requires your app to be whitelisted. See https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/account/verify_credentials for details of the API call and this form to request whitelisting … Read more
Here is what I did to get this working in a simple example. I had to generate an oAuth consumer key and secret from Twitter at: https://dev.twitter.com/apps/new I deserialized the authentication object first to get the token and type back in order to authenticate the timeline call. The timeline call simply reads the json as … Read more