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Re: I am trying to authorize an account to use an API app

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jconway3 wrote: Sat Jun 16, 2018 5:58 pm

Here is my logs ID https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/my-drive
This is not a link that I can use. It is just the URL of your google drive. The URL of *my* google drive is the same. IT is just the home page for *you*
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jconway3 wrote: Sat Jun 16, 2018 5:58 pm OK, I went to my twitter apps screen which I had created before and selected one to use then I typed in the account name and made up a password as you will see here. I've done nothing other than described in the training.
https://youtu.be/PLBiGL5Zhek
ok, in this video we can see 4 different TWITTER API APPS.
These are what your twitter accounts in twitterdub have to AUTHORISE to, in order to access Twitter via the API.

At 13 seconds, you enter the TIM WOODEN API APP
I can see the callback url is "http://placeholder.com"

You then go to Twitter dub and try to add an account "tim wooden" - you have not entered any API KEYS so the program says it can do it for you, but this fails as your twitter details are wrong.

I think this is where the confusion is. "tim wooden" is not your twitter account. That is not a valid twitter username.

https://twitter.com/<username>

your twitter handle is not
https://twitter.com/tim wooden

as that is not valid (contains a space)

I think you are entering the name of your twitter api app. Which is wrong.




You have your twitter account.
Where the username is <username>
https://twitter.com/<username>


This TWITTER ACCOUNT must then AUTHORISE to the TWITTER API APP.



So let's assume you want to use the TIM WOODEN api app.

It is probably easiest to use the WALK THROUGH.


open TWITTERDUB
click TOOLS > WALK THROUGH


You will want to click ENTER CLIENT API MANUALLY

so log into apps.twitter.com
click tim wooden
click KEYS AND ACCESS TOKENS
You need to get the CLIENT CONSUMER KEY and SECRET and CALLBACK URL
Paste these into Twitterdub
click OK

A new window will appear,
enter your TWITTER DETAILS
username / password (where username is https://twitter.com/<username>

just the <username> bit.

Then if you have entered everything correctly, the program can log into twitter with your account.




Now I know the above is a bit complicated, but that is because you are using a manually created API keys.

If you don't mind the program creating the keys for you, you just need to enter username , password. Let TD create the API APP and authorise to it all automatically.

From the WALK THROUGH form, click ATTEMPT AUTO CREATE CLIENT APPLICATION SETUP
Enter the username, password (leave the other boxes empty)
click OK

and you should be done.




Then I thought maybe these accounts need to be created on the twitter website first, I don't know.
yes, you must have twitter accounts to use
The previous account I had only created on apps.twitter.com but not the actual twitter website.
This is the misunderstand, that is NOT an account. It is not a twitter account .It is a name for an API APP. Your actual twitter accounts will need to authorise to this API APP in order to access twitter
So I used an existing account as seen here. https://youtu.be/-3362IL2Oh0

I got the same error message so I tried to do it manually and copied and pasted the API key into the consumer key field (assuming they're the same) but did not know where to find the consumer secret so I stopped.
what you are doing here, is adding your twitter account (correctly). But you are not telling it what API APP to authorise too, so the program detects you have no provided the API APP keys, so asks it you want it to create a new API APP. This then failed. I would need to see your logs to know why.

Are you up to date? As twitter has been changing things recently which broke some functionality. Updates were put out which fixes this, but you would have needed to update to them.

https://rootjazz.com/twitterdub/updatetesting.html



If you want, it may just be easier for me to log into your machine and set this up for you. It should only take 1-2 minutes. If you want to go ahead with this, do you use teamviewer or any other remove access softwares? If you do, write to me on:

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support[at]rootjazz[dot]com
and we can organise a time to do it. If you don't want to this route (I fully understand) and I can keep helping until we get it sorted
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Re: I am trying to authorize an account to use an API app

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so to summarise.

Make sure you are uptodate
https://rootjazz.com/twitterdub/updatetesting.html.

The quickest and easiest way to get up and working is to let the program create the keys.

So try and add your account. If that doesn't work, submit logs
HELP > LOGS > SUBMIT

then send your logs ID - the first 4 numbers is sufficient (displayed after successful uploading of logs)
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Re: I am trying to authorize an account to use an API app

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I just tried sharing it with you but you don't have a Google account so I can't.

I would like to simply copy and paste the log ID in this post. But I can't.

I took a screen shot that I would like to attach the screen shot in this post. But I can't.

Please tell me how you would like to receive the log ID
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Use the submit logs function :)

HELP > LOGS > SUBMIT

then send your logs ID - the first 4 numbers is sufficient (displayed after successful uploading of logs)


I think in google drive you can generate a link to the content and send me that (via email best so isn't public) as opposed to trying to share with me. That is what people normally do - but I don't know how they do it so cannot help much there I'm afraid
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Re: I am trying to authorize an account to use an API app

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if you want, it may just be easier for me to log into your machine and set this up for you. It should only take 1-2 minutes.
Thanks foor the offer Martin. I appreciate it. I sent you an email. It looks like it won't happen today. I'll be available again starting on Thursday.
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Re: I am trying to authorize an account to use an API app

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ahh it was this issue. I got your email and replied - not sure if you got my reply as I didn't get a response. I needed to know your issue / what you were trying to do .

If you can in future, link to this thread when contacting through email, so I can just refresh and know all the details.

Let me know when you are available next thursday and we can organise a time to get this all setup



Regards,
Martin
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