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twitter oauth using R

I did all the steps 

> library(ROAuth)
> reqURL <- "https://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token"
> accessURL <- "http://api.twitter.com/oauth/access_token"
> authURL <- "http://api.twitter.com/oauth/authorize"
> consumerKey <- "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
> consumerSecret <- "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
> twitCred <- OAuthFactory$new(consumerKey=consumerKey,
+ consumerSecret=consumerSecret,
+ requestURL=reqURL,
+ accessURL=accessURL,
+ authURL=authURL)
> twitCred$handshake()

after that it told me to do this : 

To enable the connection, please direct your web browser to: 
http://api.twitter.com/oauth/authorize?oauth_token=gYBR6Z2pg2YExfMjAsNp8QmjkSwpwfa5nPQNtUdgMWw
When complete, record the PIN given to you and provide it here: registerTwitterOAuth(twitCred)
Error: Forbidden

I pasted my pin

> xyxabcd

it gave : [1] xyxabcd

I typed my query

> delta.tweets = searchTwitter('@abcdx', n=1500)

but it gave this error again. 

Error in twInterfaceObj$doAPICall(cmd, params, "GET", ...) : 
  OAuth authentication is required with Twitter's API v1.1
Solution

  • [Dont use http but use https]

    You can follow this step:

    reqURL <- "https://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token"
accessURL <- "https://api.twitter.com/oauth/access_token"
authURL <- "https://api.twitter.com/oauth/authorize"
consumerKey <- "Mjn6tdsadsadkasdklad2SV1l"
consumerSecret <- "58Z7Eldsdfaslkf;asldsaoeorjkfksaVCQtvri"
twitCred <- OAuthFactory$new(consumerKey=consumerKey,
                             consumerSecret=consumerSecret,
                             requestURL=reqURL,
                             accessURL=accessURL,
                             authURL=authURL)
twitCred$handshake()

    After you run this code you will see in R console message like this :

    To enable the connection, please direct your web browser to: 
https://api.twitter.com/oauth/authorize?oauth_token=scmVODruosvz6Tdsdadadasdsa
When complete, record the PIN given to you and provide it here:

    Just paste the link to your browser then authorize app, last one you will get the PIN code, just copy and paste the PIN code to your R console.

    registerTwitterOAuth(twitCred)

    R console will show TRUE if you success.

    user <- getUser("xxx")
userTimeline(user, n=20, maxID=NULL, sinceID=NULL, includeRts=FALSE)

    If still any problem just try to show your package version and update to the last version

    sessionInfo()
update.packages("twitteR")

    The last version for twitteR is 1.1.7 => http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/twitteR/index.html

    You can download twitteR manual => see page number 12 http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/twitteR/twitteR.pdf