Twitter API Safe Authentication - c#

I'm using the C# Twitterizer in a WPF application to authenticate users to Twitter so I can publish tweets to their stream. (But that's irrelevant because the question is about the API itself).
I do not wish to create a new login interface, I want to use Twitter's Login page embedded in a WebBrowser control. Does Twitter support the same authentication style as Facebook where the user logs in to the regular FB login page and the access token is sent back in the callback URL? Or sending the username and password is the only way to get an access token (in Twitter)?!

Here's an Oauth 1.0a class that works with Twitter, and allows what you want.
There's also a simple example that shows how to use the class.
The code looks like this:
OAuth.Manager oauth;
AuthSettings settings;
public void Foo()
{
oauth = new OAuth.Manager();
oauth["consumer_key"] = TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY;
oauth["consumer_secret"] = TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET;
settings = AuthSettings.ReadFromStorage();
if (VerifyAuthentication())
{
Tweet("Hello, World");
}
}
private void Tweet(string message)
{
var url = "http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/update.xml?status=" + message;
var authzHeader = oauth.GenerateAuthzHeader(url, "POST");
var request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
request.Method = "POST";
request.PreAuthenticate = true;
request.AllowWriteStreamBuffering = true;
request.Headers.Add("Authorization", authzHeader);
using (var response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse())
{
if (response.StatusCode != HttpStatusCode.OK)
{
...
}
}
}
private bool VerifyAuthentication()
{
if (!settings.Completed)
{
var dlg = new TwitterAppApprovalForm(); // your form with an embedded webbrowser
dlg.ShowDialog();
if (dlg.DialogResult == DialogResult.OK)
{
settings.access_token = dlg.AccessToken;
settings.token_secret = dlg.TokenSecret;
settings.Save();
}
if (!settings.Completed)
{
MessageBox.Show("You must approve this app for use with Twitter\n" +
"before updating your status with it.\n\n",
"No Authorizaiton for TweetIt",
MessageBoxButtons.OK,
MessageBoxIcon.Exclamation);
return false;
}
}
// apply stored information into the oauth manager
oauth["token"] = settings.access_token;
oauth["token_secret"] = settings.token_secret;
return true;
}
The TwitterAppApprovalForm is boilerplate, and is included in the example. When you have no cached access_token and token-secret, then that form pops open, hosting an embedded webbrowser that displays the Twitter authorization form. If you have the cached data, then you don't need to display that form.

Yes, Twitter seupports the same authentication style than Facebook called OAuth.
Facebook uses OAuth 2 and Twitter uses OAuth 1.0a
Take a look to Spring.NET Social Twitter : http://springframework.net/social-twitter/
It provides samples for what you are trying to do.

Related

C# TweetSharp not sending Tweets

I am using TweetSharp to send tweets to users (currently testing it) however it keeps coming back with Bad Authentication Data
{"errors":[{"code":215,"message":"Bad Authentication data."}]}
I have checked my app settings and it has full read and write access. I have also tried to regenerate my consumer keys but still not luck.
here is my code
public ActionResult AccessToken()
{
string oauth_consumer_key = "<consumer key>";
string oauth_consumer_secret = "<consumer secret>";
var service = new TwitterService(oauth_consumer_key, oauth_consumer_secret);
// Now we need the Token and TokenSecret
OAuthRequestToken requestToken = service.GetRequestToken("http://localhost:37808/");
string authURL = service.GetAuthorizationUri(requestToken).ToString();
Process.Start(authURL);
SendTweetOptions options = new SendTweetOptions();
options.Status = "Hello there Twitter";
service.SendTweet(options);
var re = service.Response.Response;
return View();
}
Am I doing anything wrong?
Finally solved the issue and it works well. Based upon comments from Yort.
public ActionResult AccessToken()
{
// Step 1 - Retrieve an OAuth Request Token
TwitterService service = new TwitterService(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["TwitterConsumerKey"], ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["TwitterConsumerSecret"]);
// This is the registered callback URL
OAuthRequestToken requestToken = service.GetRequestToken("http://localhost:37808/Twitter/OToken");
// Step 2 - Redirect to the OAuth Authorization URL
Uri uri = service.GetAuthorizationUri(requestToken);
return new RedirectResult(uri.ToString(), false /*permanent*/);
//return View();
}
public ActionResult OToken()
{
return View();
}
public ActionResult UserInfo(string oauth_token, string oauth_verifier)
{
var requestToken = new OAuthRequestToken { Token = oauth_token };
// Step 3 - Exchange the Request Token for an Access Token
TwitterService service = new TwitterService(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["TwitterConsumerKey"],
ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["TwitterConsumerSecret"]);
OAuthAccessToken accessToken = service.GetAccessToken(requestToken, oauth_verifier);
// Step 4 - User authenticates using the Access Token
service.AuthenticateWith(accessToken.Token, accessToken.TokenSecret);
TwitterUser user = service.VerifyCredentials(new VerifyCredentialsOptions());
ViewBag.Message = string.Format("{0}", user.ScreenName);
// Step 5 - Send Tweet to User TimeLine
SendTweetOptions options = new SendTweetOptions();
string URL = "file:\\C:\\Users\\<User>\\Desktop\\test.jpg";
string path = new Uri(URL).LocalPath;
// Sending with Media
using (var stream = new FileStream(path, FileMode.Open))
{
service.SendTweetWithMedia(new SendTweetWithMediaOptions
{
Status = "<status>",
Images = new Dictionary<string, Stream> { { path, stream } }
});
}
var responseText = service.Response.StatusCode;
if (responseText.ToString() == "OK")
{
ViewBag.Message = "Tweet Successful";
}
else
{
ViewBag.Message = "Tweet Unsuccessful";
}
return View();
}
}
I don't believe you can send Tweets as just a consumer, the Tweets have to be "owned" by a user account. You need to register a Twitter account, then do the full oauth authentication process to get an access token (in addition to the consumer token), then reauthorise the TweetSharp service using both tokens.
Your code above nearly gets there (I think). After the Process.start call there needs to be logic to use the verifier returned in the browser (a number displayed after the user logs in) to complete the auth process and act as that user. At the moment, your code gets half way through that process but does not complete it, so when you try to tweet your TweetSharp service is only authed as the app and not the user.
The originalTweetSharp readme.md does include the missing bits of code. Step 3 needs the actual verifier returned in the browser after login:
// Step 3 - Exchange the Request Token for an Access Token
string verifier = "123456"; // <-- This is input into your application by your user
OAuthAccessToken access = service.GetAccessToken(requestToken, verifier);
// Step 4 - User authenticates using the Access Token
service.AuthenticateWith(access.Token, access.TokenSecret);
//Now your tweet call should work here.
It also looks like you're doing this in a web app on the server? In which case you're using entirely the wrong oauth flow (I believe). This one is designed for desktop apps, hence the call that starts a new browser process for the user to login with. I'm not entirely sure how the web flow works as I've never used it, but I believe you need to redirect the user to the authorisation url you receive, and the callback registered with Twitter should point back to your site. I think there is some kind of state parameter that can be passed back through the oauth flow so you can implement your own logic to pickup where you left off based on a session id or similar.
I worked on this subject before. You have to developer account before the send tweet because you need tokens and keys. It's my windows service project.
I wrote my tokens and key codes in App.config
<appSettings>
<add key="twitterAccessToken" value="*****"/>
<add key="twitterAccessTokenSecret" value="*****"/>
<add key="twitterConsumerKey" value="*****"/>
<add key="twitterConsumerSecret" value="*****"/>
public static void SendTweet()
{
try
{
GetPixelImageFile();
string key = ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings.Get("twitterConsumerKey");
string secret = ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings.Get("twitterConsumerSecret");
string token = ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings.Get("twitterAccessToken");
string tokenSecret = ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings.Get("twitterAccessTokenSecret");
string message = "Color, Colorful, Pixel, Art, PixelColouring, Follow";
var service = new TweetSharp.TwitterService(key, secret);
service.AuthenticateWith(token, tokenSecret);
using (var stream = new FileStream(#"C:\Images\Pixel.png", FileMode.Open))
{
var result = service.SendTweetWithMedia(new SendTweetWithMediaOptions
{
Status = message,
Images = new Dictionary<string, Stream> { { "john", stream } }
});
SendMail("SendTweet", (result == null ? "" : result.Text));
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
SendMail("SendTweet", ex.Message);
}
}

Share Post as Facebook App on Facebook page

I have been using facebook api to share post on facebook page as facebook app. I have created facebook app.
The post also gets shared but the problem is, it is not being posted as a facebook app. Instead it asks user for login and then it shares post as a user. Any help regarding how could I share a post as a Facebook App would be appreciated as I have been trying this for a long time.
Thanx in advance friends.
The code that I have been using is as follows.
using Facebook;
protected void CheckAuthorization()
{
string authorizationCode = Request.QueryString["code"];
string access_token = Facebook_GetAccessToken(authorizationCode);
FacebookShare(access_token);
}
private string Facebook_GetAccessToken(string pAuthorizationCode)
{
string urlGetAccessToken = "https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token";
urlGetAccessToken += "?client_id=my app id";
urlGetAccessToken += "&client_secret=app secret";
urlGetAccessToken += "&redirect_uri=" + Facebook_GetRedirectUri();
urlGetAccessToken += "&code=" + pAuthorizationCode;
string responseData = RequestResponse(urlGetAccessToken);
if (responseData == "")
{
return "";
}
NameValueCollection qs = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(responseData);
string access_token = qs["access_token"] == null ? "" : qs["access_token"];
return access_token;
}
protected void FacebookShare(string token)
{
if (token != null)
{
Int64 transactionid = Convert.ToInt64(Cache["transactionid"]);
string app_id = "my app id";
string app_secret = "app secret";
string scope = "offline_access,read_stream,publish_actions,publish_stream,manage_pages,status_update";
dynamic parameters = new ExpandoObject();
parameters.link = "my website link";
parameters.name = "my project name";
parameters.picture= "my website logo";
var client = new FacebookClient(token);
client.Post("/1374775846180409/feed", parameters); // this is my facebook page id where I want to share post.
Response.Cookies["transaction"].Expires = DateTime.Now;
}
else
{
}
}
Regarding above code, I am getting Facebook Authorization code successfully.
You can only ask your user who has logged into your app to post on facebook, apps as such are not allowed to post.
You will need a page access token to post as the page, which have permissions to modify the data belonging to a Facebook Page. To obtain a page access token you need to start by obtaining a user access token, for which your user has to be logged into your app and asking for the manage_pages permission scope. Next, you can GET /me/accounts, which will return a page access token for each page that you manage.
This can not be accomplished using offline access or without logging in.

How to post Twitter message to authenticated user's timeline via OAuth

I've been wrestling with the Twitter API for a few days now but I cannot post a message to an authenticated user's timeline. I've got an ASP.NET MVC 4 application that signs a user in via Twitter and saves the access token that comes back from the sign in process. That part works fine. I can see my application with read and write permissions within the authenticated user's twitter account.
I'm then using that access token, along with the consumer key, consumer secret and oauth token secret associated with my Twitter application, to post to the user's timeline. I'm getting a 401 unauthorised error every time. I've tried using the 1.1 API and the 1 API with the same result.
Most of the code comes from Gary Short's article here: http://garyshortblog.wordpress.com/2011/02/11/a-twitter-oauth-example-in-c/
Here's what I've got so far. If anyone can spot any clues as to what I'm missing I'd be most grateful.
public async Task<bool> Push(TwitterMessage twitterMessage)
{
const string updateApi = "http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/update.json";
const string oauthConsumerKey = "<consumerKey>";
const string consumerSecret = "<consumerSecret>";
const string oauthSignatureMethod = "HMAC-SHA1";
const string oauthTokenSecret = "<tokenSecret>";
var signingKey = string.Format("{0}&{1}", consumerSecret.Escaped(), oauthTokenSecret.Escaped());
var postBody = "status=" + Uri.EscapeDataString(twitterMessage.MessageContent);
var oauthNonce = Convert.ToBase64String(new ASCIIEncoding().GetBytes(DateTime.Now.Ticks.ToString()));
var oauthToken = "<authenticatedUserToken>";
var timeSpan = DateTime.UtcNow - new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0);
var oauthTimestamp = Convert.ToInt64(timeSpan.TotalSeconds).ToString();
var message = string.Format("POST {0}?{1} HTTP/1.1", updateApi, postBody.Escaped());
var hasher = new HMACSHA1(new ASCIIEncoding().GetBytes(signingKey));
var signatureString = Convert.ToBase64String(hasher.ComputeHash(new ASCIIEncoding().GetBytes(message)));
ServicePointManager.Expect100Continue = false;
var request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(updateApi);
request.KeepAlive = false;
var authorisationBuilder = new StringBuilder();
authorisationBuilder.Append("OAuth ");
authorisationBuilder.AppendFormat("oauth_consumer_key=\"{0}\",", oauthConsumerKey.Escaped());
authorisationBuilder.AppendFormat("oauth_signature_method=\"{0}\",", oauthSignatureMethod.Escaped());
authorisationBuilder.AppendFormat("oauth_timestamp=\"{0}\",", oauthTimestamp.Escaped());
authorisationBuilder.AppendFormat("oauth_nonce=\"{0}\",", oauthNonce.Escaped());
authorisationBuilder.AppendFormat("oauth_token=\"{0}\",", oauthToken.Escaped());
authorisationBuilder.AppendFormat("oauth_signature=\"{0}\"", signatureString.Escaped());
var authorisation = authorisationBuilder.ToString();
request.Headers.Add("Authorization", authorisation);
request.Method = "POST";
request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
using (var stream = await request.GetRequestStreamAsync())
{
var bodyBytes = new ASCIIEncoding().GetBytes(postBody);
stream.Write(bodyBytes, 0, bodyBytes.Length);
}
//Allow us a reasonable timeout in case Twitter's busy
request.Timeout = 3 * 60 * 1000;
try
{
var response = await request.GetResponseAsync() as HttpWebResponse;
return true;
}
catch (WebException)
{
return false;
}
}
public static string Escaped(this string input)
{
return Uri.EscapeDataString(input);
}
UPDATE Looking at this SO post it looks like I can't use the DotNetOpenAuth twitter client for authorisation, which I had been doing. The suggestion there is to extend the twitter consumer class instead to perform the authorisation, which will allow me to retrieve the user's token secret (the missing piece of my puzzle I think). Will post another update when I get this working.
Check this code and link/article simple and easy :
protected void btnTweet_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
string oauthAccessToken = Session["twtoken"].ToString();
string oauthAccessTokenSecret = Session["twsecret"].ToString();
OAuthHelper oauthhelper = new OAuthHelper();
oauthhelper.TweetOnBehalfOf(oauthAccessToken, oauthAccessTokenSecret, txtTweet.Text);
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(oauthhelper.oauth_error))
Response.Write("Twit Posted Successfully");
else
Response.Write(oauthhelper.oauth_error);
}
Read more how to get access token and secret key and download OAuthHelper and OAuthUtility Class below is the link -
How to post tweet on behalf of an user from asp.net using oauth authentication
Login with twitter using oauth authentication in asp.net and get access token, screen name and userid
So the problem is an issue with DotNetOpenAuth as it currently stands. For Twitter authentication, the DotNetOpenAuth client doesn't allow for the full authorisation flow (needed for posting to a user's timeline). Only the access token is retrieved from the initial handshake and not the access token secret. I was using the access token secret associated with my Twitter app, rather than the Twitter user who was signing in, so authorisation was failing every time.
UPDATE: I've finally gone with using Daniel Crenna's Tweetsharp library, which makes the code a little simpler than writing my own API wrapper would have been:
public async Task<bool> Push(TwitterAccount account)
{
var twitterService = new TwitterService(consumerKey, consumerSecret);
twitterService.AuthenticateWith(account.AccessToken, account.AccessTokenSecret);
var options = new SendTweetOptions {Status = string.Format("{0} {1}", account.Message.MessageContent, account.Message.ShortLink)};
var status = twitterService.SendTweet(options);
return status != null;
}

how to post to facebook page wall from .NET

I've created Facebook page.
I have no application secret and no access token.
I want to post to this page from my .NET desktop application.
How can I do it? Can anyone help please, where can I get access token for this?
Should I create a new Facebook Application? If yes, how can I grant permissions to this application to post on page's wall?
UPD1:
I have no website.
I need to post company's news from .NET desktop application to company's Facebook page.
All I have is Login/Password for Facebook Page Account.
UPD2:
I've created Facebook Application. With AppID/SecretKey. I can get access token. But...
How can I grant permissions to post to page's wall?
(OAuthException) (#200) The user hasn't authorized the application to perform this action
I have created a video tutorial showing how to do this at this location:
http://www.markhagan.me/Samples/Grant-Access-And-Post-As-Facebook-User-ASPNet
You will notice that, in my example, I am asking for both "publish_stream" and "manage_pages". This let's you also post on pages of which that users is an admin. Here is the full code:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Net;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using Facebook;
namespace FBO
{
public partial class facebooksync : System.Web.UI.Page
{
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
CheckAuthorization();
}
private void CheckAuthorization()
{
string app_id = "374961455917802";
string app_secret = "9153b340ee604f7917fd57c7ab08b3fa";
string scope = "publish_stream,manage_pages";
if (Request["code"] == null)
{
Response.Redirect(string.Format(
"https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/authorize?client_id={0}&redirect_uri={1}&scope={2}",
app_id, Request.Url.AbsoluteUri, scope));
}
else
{
Dictionary<string, string> tokens = new Dictionary<string, string>();
string url = string.Format("https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?client_id={0}&redirect_uri={1}&scope={2}&code={3}&client_secret={4}",
app_id, Request.Url.AbsoluteUri, scope, Request["code"].ToString(), app_secret);
HttpWebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(url) as HttpWebRequest;
using (HttpWebResponse response = request.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse)
{
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream());
string vals = reader.ReadToEnd();
foreach (string token in vals.Split('&'))
{
//meh.aspx?token1=steve&token2=jake&...
tokens.Add(token.Substring(0, token.IndexOf("=")),
token.Substring(token.IndexOf("=") + 1, token.Length - token.IndexOf("=") - 1));
}
}
string access_token = tokens["access_token"];
var client = new FacebookClient(access_token);
client.Post("/me/feed", new { message = "markhagan.me video tutorial" });
}
}
}
}
You need to ask the user for the publish_stream permission. In order to do this you need to add publish_stream to the scope in the oAuth request you send to Facebook. The easiest way to do all of this is to use the facebooksdk for .net which you can grab from codeplex. There are some examples there of how to do this with a desktop app.
Once you ask for that permission and the user grants it you will receive an access token which you can use to post to your page's wall. If you need to store this permission you can store the access token although you might need to ask for offline_access permission in your scope in order to have an access token that doesn't expire.
You can use
https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Owin.Security.Facebook/ to obtain users login and permission and
https://www.nuget.org/packages/Facebook.Client/
to post to feeds.
Below example is for ASP.NET MVC 5:
public void ConfigureAuth(IAppBuilder app)
{
app.UseExternalSignInCookie(DefaultAuthenticationTypes.ExternalCookie);
// Facebook
var facebookOptions = new FacebookAuthenticationOptions
{
AppId = "{get_it_from_dev_console}",
AppSecret = "{get_it_from_dev_console}",
BackchannelHttpHandler = new FacebookBackChannelHandler(),
UserInformationEndpoint = "https://graph.facebook.com/v2.4/me?fields=id,name,email,first_name,last_name,location",
Provider = new FacebookAuthenticationProvider
{
OnAuthenticated = context =>
{
context.Identity.AddClaim(new Claim("FacebookAccessToken", context.AccessToken)); // user acces token needed for posting on the wall
return Task.FromResult(true);
}
}
};
facebookOptions.Scope.Add("email");
facebookOptions.Scope.Add("publish_actions"); // permission needed for posting on the wall
facebookOptions.Scope.Add("publish_pages"); // permission needed for posting on the page
app.UseFacebookAuthentication(facebookOptions);
AntiForgeryConfig.UniqueClaimTypeIdentifier = ClaimTypes.NameIdentifier;
}
}
On the callback you get user access token:
public ActionResult callback()
{
// Here we skip all the error handling and null checking
var auth = HttpContext.GetOwinContext().Authentication;
var loginInfo = auth.GetExternalLoginInfo();
var identityInfo = auth.GetExternalIdentity(DefaultAuthenticationTypes.ExternalCookie);
var email = loginInfo.Email // klaatuveratanecto#gmail.com
var name = loginInfo.ExternalIdentity.Name // Klaatu Verata Necto
var provider = loginInfo.Login.LoginProvider // Facebook | Google
var fb_access_token = loginInfo.identityInfo.FindFirstValue("FacebookAccessToken");
// Save this token to database, for the purpose of this example we will save it to Session.
Session['fb_access_token'] = fb_access_token;
// ...
}
Which then you can use to post to user's feed or page
public class postcontroller : basecontroller
{
public ActionResult wall()
{
var client = new FacebookClient( Session['fb_access_token'] as string);
var args = new Dictionary<string, object>();
args["message"] = "Klaatu Verata N......(caugh, caugh)";
try
{
client.Post("/me/feed", args); // post to users wall (feed)
client.Post("/{page-id}/feed", args); // post to page feed
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
// Log if anything goes wrong
}
}
}
You need to grant the permission "publish_stream".
Possibly the easiest way to do this is via Facebook PowerShell Module, http://facebookpsmodule.codeplex.com. This allows the same sort of operations as FacebookSDK, but via an IT-Admin scripting interface rather than a developer-oriented interface.
AFAIK there is still a limitation of Facebook Graph API that you will not be able to post references to other pages (e.g. #Microsoft) using the Facebook Graph API. This will apply to FacebookSDK, FacebookPSModule, and anything else built over Facebook Graph API.
You will get information on how to create a facebook app or link your website to facebook on https://developers.facebook.com/?ref=pf.
You will be able to download facebook sdk at http://facebooksdk.codeplex.com/. There are some good example given in the document section of the site.
public void PostImageOnPage()
{
string filename=string.Empty;
if(ModelState.IsValid)
{
//-------- save image in image/
if (System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Request.Files.Count > 0)
{
var file = System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Request.Files[0];
// fetching image
filename = Path.GetFileName(file.FileName);
filename = DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyyMMdd") + "_" + filename;
file.SaveAs(Server.MapPath("~/images/Advertisement/") + filename);
}
}
string Picture_Path = Server.MapPath("~/Images/" + "image3.jpg");
string message = "my message";
try
{
string PageAccessToken = "EAACEdEose0cBAAoWM3X";
// ————————create the FacebookClient object
FacebookClient facebookClient = new FacebookClient(PageAccessToken);
// ————————set the parameters
dynamic parameters = new ExpandoObject();
parameters.message = message;
parameters.Subject = "";
parameters.source = new FacebookMediaObject
{
ContentType = "image/jpeg",
FileName = Path.GetFileName(Picture_Path)
}.SetValue(System.IO.File.ReadAllBytes(Picture_Path));
// facebookClient.Post("/" + PageID + "/photos", parameters);// working for notification on user page
facebookClient.Post("me/photos", parameters);// woring using bingoapp access token not page in(image album) Post the image/picture to User wall
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
}
}

Update Twitter Status in C#

I'm trying to update a user's Twitter status from my C# application.
I searched the web and found several possibilities, but I'm a bit confused by the recent (?) change in Twitter's authentication process. I also found what seems to be a relevant StackOverflow post, but it simply does not answer my question because it's ultra-specific regading a code snippet that does not work.
I'm attempting to reach the REST API and not the Search API, which means I should live up to the stricter OAuth authentication.
I looked at two solutions. The Twitterizer Framework worked fine, but it's an external DLL and I would rather use source code. Just as an example, the code using it is very clear and looks like so:
Twitter twitter = new Twitter("username", "password");
twitter.Status.Update("Hello World!");
I also examined Yedda's Twitter library, but this one failed on what I believe to be the authentication process, when trying basically the same code as above (Yedda expects the username and password in the status update itself but everything else is supposed to be the same).
Since I could not find a clear cut answer on the web, I'm bringing it to StackOverflow.
What's the simplest way to get a Twitter status update working in a C# application, without external DLL dependency?
Thanks
If you like the Twitterizer Framework but just don't like not having the source, why not download the source? (Or browse it if you just want to see what it's doing...)
I'm not a fan of re-inventing the wheel, especially when it comes to products that already exist that provide 100% of the sought functionality. I actually have the source code for Twitterizer running side by side my ASP.NET MVC application just so that I could make any necessary changes...
If you really don't want the DLL reference to exist, here is an example on how to code the updates in C#. Check this out from dreamincode.
/*
* A function to post an update to Twitter programmatically
* Author: Danny Battison
* Contact: gabehabe#hotmail.com
*/
/// <summary>
/// Post an update to a Twitter acount
/// </summary>
/// <param name="username">The username of the account</param>
/// <param name="password">The password of the account</param>
/// <param name="tweet">The status to post</param>
public static void PostTweet(string username, string password, string tweet)
{
try {
// encode the username/password
string user = Convert.ToBase64String(System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(username + ":" + password));
// determine what we want to upload as a status
byte[] bytes = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("status=" + tweet);
// connect with the update page
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml");
// set the method to POST
request.Method="POST";
request.ServicePoint.Expect100Continue = false; // thanks to argodev for this recent change!
// set the authorisation levels
request.Headers.Add("Authorization", "Basic " + user);
request.ContentType="application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
// set the length of the content
request.ContentLength = bytes.Length;
// set up the stream
Stream reqStream = request.GetRequestStream();
// write to the stream
reqStream.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
// close the stream
reqStream.Close();
} catch (Exception ex) {/* DO NOTHING */}
}
Another Twitter library I have used sucessfully is TweetSharp, which provides a fluent API.
The source code is available at Google code. Why don't you want to use a dll? That is by far the easiest way to include a library in a project.
The simplest way to post stuff to twitter is to use basic authentication , which isn't very strong.
static void PostTweet(string username, string password, string tweet)
{
// Create a webclient with the twitter account credentials, which will be used to set the HTTP header for basic authentication
WebClient client = new WebClient { Credentials = new NetworkCredential { UserName = username, Password = password } };
// Don't wait to receive a 100 Continue HTTP response from the server before sending out the message body
ServicePointManager.Expect100Continue = false;
// Construct the message body
byte[] messageBody = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("status=" + tweet);
// Send the HTTP headers and message body (a.k.a. Post the data)
client.UploadData("http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml", messageBody);
}
Try LINQ To Twitter. Find LINQ To Twitter update status with media complete code example that works with Twitter REST API V1.1. Solution is also available for download.
LINQ To Twitter Code Sample
var twitterCtx = new TwitterContext(auth);
string status = "Testing TweetWithMedia #Linq2Twitter " +
DateTime.Now.ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
const bool PossiblySensitive = false;
const decimal Latitude = StatusExtensions.NoCoordinate;
const decimal Longitude = StatusExtensions.NoCoordinate;
const bool DisplayCoordinates = false;
string ReplaceThisWithYourImageLocation = Server.MapPath("~/test.jpg");
var mediaItems =
new List<media>
{
new Media
{
Data = Utilities.GetFileBytes(ReplaceThisWithYourImageLocation),
FileName = "test.jpg",
ContentType = MediaContentType.Jpeg
}
};
Status tweet = twitterCtx.TweetWithMedia(
status, PossiblySensitive, Latitude, Longitude,
null, DisplayCoordinates, mediaItems, null);
Try TweetSharp . Find TweetSharp update status with media complete code example works with Twitter REST API V1.1. Solution is also available for download.
TweetSharp Code Sample
//if you want status update only uncomment the below line of code instead
//var result = tService.SendTweet(new SendTweetOptions { Status = Guid.NewGuid().ToString() });
Bitmap img = new Bitmap(Server.MapPath("~/test.jpg"));
if (img != null)
{
MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();
img.Save(ms, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Jpeg);
ms.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
Dictionary<string, Stream> images = new Dictionary<string, Stream>{{"mypicture", ms}};
//Twitter compares status contents and rejects dublicated status messages.
//Therefore in order to create a unique message dynamically, a generic guid has been used
var result = tService.SendTweetWithMedia(new SendTweetWithMediaOptions { Status = Guid.NewGuid().ToString(), Images = images });
if (result != null && result.Id > 0)
{
Response.Redirect("https://twitter.com");
}
else
{
Response.Write("fails to update status");
}
}
Here's another solution with minimal code using the excellent AsyncOAuth Nuget package and Microsoft's HttpClient. This solution also assumes you're posting on your own behalf so you have your access token key/secret already, however even if you don't the flow is pretty easy (see AsyncOauth docs).
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using AsyncOAuth;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Security.Cryptography;
public class TwitterClient
{
private readonly HttpClient _httpClient;
public TwitterClient()
{
// See AsyncOAuth docs (differs for WinRT)
OAuthUtility.ComputeHash = (key, buffer) =>
{
using (var hmac = new HMACSHA1(key))
{
return hmac.ComputeHash(buffer);
}
};
// Best to store secrets outside app (Azure Portal/etc.)
_httpClient = OAuthUtility.CreateOAuthClient(
AppSettings.TwitterAppId, AppSettings.TwitterAppSecret,
new AccessToken(AppSettings.TwitterAccessTokenKey, AppSettings.TwitterAccessTokenSecret));
}
public async Task UpdateStatus(string status)
{
try
{
var content = new FormUrlEncodedContent(new Dictionary<string, string>()
{
{"status", status}
});
var response = await _httpClient.PostAsync("https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/update.json", content);
if (response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
{
// OK
}
else
{
// Not OK
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
// Log ex
}
}
}
This works on all platforms due to HttpClient's nature. I use this method myself on Windows Phone 7/8 for a completely different service.

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