Twitter Play

Demonstrates connecting to Twitter API using oAuth 1.0a. oAuth 1.0a header generated purely using Java 8 without 3rd party application.

Exposes a REST API to check if a Twitter handle follows another Twitter handle

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• Check TwitterOauthHeaderGenerator to directly see the code to generate oAuth 1.0a Authorization header.

• Sample code to connect to Twitter API using RestTemplate available here

• This application also contains a SpringBoot based REST service which checks if a Twitter handle follows another. You can run the application by executing the main method of TwitterPlayApplication and then access the Swagger UI to try out the webservice at http://localhost:8090/swagger-ui.html

Set following environment variables with your API keys before running the application or integration tests.

twitter_oauth_accessToken=<ACCESS_TOKEN>;
twitter_oauth_accessTokenSecret=<ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET>;
twitter_oauth_consumerKey=<CONSUMER_KEY>;
twitter_oauth_consumerSecret=<CONSUMER_KEY_SECRET>;

API keys can be generated after creating developer account at Twitter

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Play around with the application at https://twitter-play.herokuapp.com/swagger-ui.html

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Full web app with UI available at https://smilep.github.io/twitter-play-ui/