Live example can be seen @fourmargins.com/labs/twitter_oauth/!
(Original snippet based on Simon Willison's Fire Eagle views )
- Django 1.0 (or trunk)
- You must register a new Twitter oAuth application. Set your application's Callback URL to "http://mysite.com/twitter/return/".
Add the 'twitter_app' directory somewhere on your 'PYTHONPATH', put it into 'INSTALLED_APPS' in your settings file. Fill in your CONSUMER_KEY and CONSUMER_SECRET either in 'twitter_app/utils.py' or in your settings file.
- Add this line to your Django project's urlconf: url(r'^twitter/', include('twitter_app.urls')),
You're good to go!
Use the API resources listed on the REST API Documentation. I've currently implemented two functions, which you can see in the end of twitter_app/utils.py.
Here's how you might implement a delete method:
def delete_status_message(consumer, connection, access_token, tweet_id):
oauth_request = request_oauth_resource(consumer, 'http://twitter.com/statuses/destroy/%s.json' % tweet_id, access_token)
json = fetch_response(oauth_request, connection)
return json
Then, in your views.py, you could define a simplistic function like so: def delete_tweet(request, tweet_id): access_token = request.session.get('access_token', None) if not access_token: return HttpResponse("You need an access token!") token = oauth.OAuthToken.from_string(access_token)
message = delete_status_message(CONSUMER, CONNECTION, token, tweet_id)
if message:
message = simplejson.loads(message)
return return render_to_response('twitter_app/delete_tweet.html', {'message': message})