Twitter oAuth with .NET
I recently completed the conversion from Basic Authentication to oAuth for My Tweeple. Since there aren’t many .NET examples out there, I’ve attached an example application. As usual, you’ll need to convert it to meet your needs and apply appropriate error handling, but hopefully this will save someone a little time.
Download the full code here.
Update
Troubleshooting tips:
- Your application’s consumer key and secret should be entered in the web.config file. (from http://Twitter.com/oauth)
- The date/time on your machine must be accurate. Make sure you’ve performed a recent sync with a known time source.
- If you’re trying to call a Twitter API method that will update data, make sure the oAuth setup is Read/Write on Twitter.com/oAuth.
namespace oAuthExample { public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page { protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { string url = ""; string xml = ""; oAuthTwitter oAuth = new oAuthTwitter(); if (Request["oauth_token"] == null) { //Redirect the user to Twitter for authorization. //Using oauth_callback for local testing. oAuth.CallBackUrl = "http://localhost/"; Response.Redirect(oAuth.AuthorizationLinkGet()); } else { //Get the access token and secret. oAuth.AccessTokenGet(Request["oauth_token"], Request["oauth_verifier"]); if (oAuth.TokenSecret.Length > 0) { //We now have the credentials, so make a call to the Twitter API. url = "http://twitter.com/account/verify_credentials.xml"; xml = oAuth.oAuthWebRequest(oAuthTwitter.Method.GET, url, String.Empty); apiResponse.InnerHtml = Server.HtmlEncode(xml); //POST Test //url = "http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml"; //xml = oAuth.oAuthWebRequest(oAuthTwitter.Method.POST, url, "status=" + oAuth.UrlEncode("Hello @swhitley - Testing the .NET oAuth API")); //apiResponse.InnerHtml = Server.HtmlEncode(xml); } } } }
Thanks to Eran Sandler for his Basic oAuth Class which I happily extended for Twitter.
Related:
Twitter oAuth with .NET for the Desktop
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- swhitley (Shannon Whitley)
Twitter oAuth with .NET example code [New Post] – [link to post]– Posted using Chat Catcher
- akvalley (Anthony K. Valley)
@swhitley Thanks for the .NET sample code for Twitter oAuth [link to post]. I’ll use it to fix a PowerShell script I found.– Posted using Chat Catcher
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Twitter oAuth with .NET [via FAQ] [link to post]– Posted using Chat Catcher
- send2moran (send2moran)
@gromer, try this class – [link to post] the important line is : oAuth.AccessTokenGet(Request["oauth_token"]);– Posted using Chat Catcher
- moomerman (Richard Taylor)
@aroxo its a couple of hours if you’ve already got a decent oauth lib to hand [link to post]– Posted using Chat Catcher
- ninjamonk (Darren Stuart)
working on an oAuth setup for .net and twitter, this helps [link to post]– Posted using Chat Catcher
- zerophyte (Cian H)
Reading a few things about twitter’s OAuth system – nothing new, just throught the api wiki – .NET example code : [link to post]– Posted using Chat Catcher
- SteveHolstad (Steve Holstad)
Excellent .NET Twitter oAuth class by @swhitley [link to post] Community dev at it’s best.– Posted using Chat Catcher
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- Jeffbrown711 (Jeff Brown)
@ardalis u have any working snipits of something like this? [link to post]- Jeffbrown711 (Jeff Brown)
@ardalis looking to authenticate via oauth – missing something that is not allowing this to run [link to post]- ardalis (Steve Smith)
@Jeffbrown711 you just want some code that talks to twitter’s API in C#, or what?- Jeffbrown711 (Jeff Brown)
@swhitley where is the latest working version of [link to post]
– i am unable; to get this to work. thks- swhitley (Shannon Whitley)
@Jeffbrown711 E-mail me and maybe I can help with specifics.- swhitley (Shannon Whitley)
@Jeffbrown711 I believe this code still works: http://voiceoftech.com/downloads/oauthtwitterexamplenet.zip- mchid (mark chidlow)
oh the joys of oAuth .NET at [link to post]- mariusdima (md)
Hei! Twitter oAuth with .NET [link to post]- docblop (Mike Schaefer)
@stuartmanning there’s an oauth implementation for .net already. no need to reinvent the wheel. [link to post]- stuartmanning (Stuart Manning)
@docblop and it is ‘often’ used in CodePlex.com OAUTH contribute projects*great link*
- stuartmanning (Stuart Manning)
@docblop thanks =) there’s a ‘little’ more to do than just that example.. however it has ‘inspired’ alot of other to take this forward- docblop (Mike Schaefer)
@stuartmanning ok, just thought I’d point it out, but you obviously have it covered. Have used it and it works well for me. cheers
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@docblop you too sir =) it ‘very easy’ to implement :: there is the 1.1 standard etc and REST =) all good, and nice to meet you- prakash1979 (prakash)
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Twitter oAuth with .NET [link to post] via @addthis- ahmd (ahmd)
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@BrandonWatson Recently setup OAuth with [link to post] and username/pass with Yedda http://bit.ly/10NPEI what you trying to do?- Test Message | Hidden Treasures Of . Net
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@aarnott I started w Shannon Whitley’s, then modified it to be used in a WinForms app instead of an ASP.NET application. [link to post]- dixzan (Antonio Torres)
@lhchavez estoy aprendiendo como registrar mi API para consumir todos los servicios de Twitter. Se llama oAuth. [link to post].- lhchavez (lhchavez)
@dixzan aaah el oAuth… tuvieron broncas de seguridad con eso cuando lo sacaron por primera vez
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@Paul Shriner – Been there myself. Just glad to hear it’s working.
Thanx a lot Shanon….I m beginner in Asp.net…I spent my whole 1 day for doing OAuth twit posting on twitter…Nobody on the internet gives a perfect solution….But finally I get perfect code..Once again thank u very much
Thanks for sharing this!
Such a help! Thank you.
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Shannon,
Thanks for a great library. I have a quick question;
when I create an application on twitter dev portal, it generates Access Token and Access Token Secret.
When I set these value to your _token and _tokenSecret, I get permission denied.
Any ideas?
I got this working fine. However, no matter how many times a user approve the Access/Deny dialog; it shows up again the next time. I check the user’s permission on his/her Twiter account, they already give the permission for this application; however the Access/Deny comes back again and again.
@Tim Duff – That is under your control. Once Twitter delivers the token and token secret to you, store it in a database. The next time that the user visits your site, use the token and secret from your database. You can also change the signon page using the authenticate link instead of the authorize address: http://api.twitter.com/oauth/authenticate
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[...] is called OAuth. Shannon Whitley wrote a nice OAuth package for .Net and posted it on his blog here. Go grab that and put it in your App_Code directory. I changed the namespace to [...]
Hi Shan,
string url = “”;
string xml = “”;
oAuthTwitter oAuth = new oAuthTwitter();
oAuth.ConsumerKey = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["twitterConsumerKey"];
oAuth.ConsumerSecret = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["twitterConsumerSecret"];
oAuth.Token = “306151605-cX3lg8XBL6FC8wAw2jRXBa0uCanY866LXZ5rfE3N”;
oAuth.TokenSecret = “jWxwy7vV786AQLTG2RU1yBu6cFWTYmj6ZfUqrZBEDA”;
//url = “http://twitter.com/account/verify_credentials.xml”;
//xml = oAuth.oAuthWebRequest(oAuthTwitter.Method.GET, url, String.Empty);
//apiResponse.InnerHtml = Server.HtmlEncode(xml);
//POST Test
url = “http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml”;
xml = oAuth.oAuthWebRequest(oAuthTwitter.Method.POST, url, “status=” + oAuth.UrlEncode(“Hello trying to do.”));
//apiResponse.InnerHtml = Server.HtmlEncode(xml);
I am getting 403 error. I could post to twitter twice after that i am getting the above error. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks for great post.
The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details: System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden.
Source Error:
An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.
Stack Trace:
[WebException: The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden.]
System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse() +5376061
oAuth.oAuthTwitter.WebResponseGet(HttpWebRequest webRequest) in D:\BlissCity\BlissCity\BLL\oAuthTwitter.cs:273
oAuth.oAuthTwitter.WebRequest(Method method, String url, String postData) in D:\BlissCity\BlissCity\BLL\oAuthTwitter.cs:244
oAuth.oAuthTwitter.oAuthWebRequest(Method method, String url, String postData) in D:\BlissCity\BlissCity\BLL\oAuthTwitter.cs:199
BlissCity.SignInTweet.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) in D:\BlissCity\BlissCity\SignInTweet.aspx.cs:31
System.Web.Util.CalliHelper.EventArgFunctionCaller(IntPtr fp, Object o, Object t, EventArgs e) +14
System.Web.Util.CalliEventHandlerDelegateProxy.Callback(Object sender, EventArgs e) +35
System.Web.UI.Control.OnLoad(EventArgs e) +99
System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +50
System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +627
Great work. We did a project based your example, works perfect. Then the last couple weeks the stored tokens are no longer working even tho the code has not changed. Are time is synchronized and thing look good when we redirect via the call back URL. Anyone else had a similar problem?
Thanks a million for this.
Could you please write a post on how to use Connect with Facebook along with twitter authentication. and how to manage them in my database that which user is associated with how many services… etc…
Hello, I downloaded your codebase onto my dev environment (VS2008). I copied my two keys into the web.config. checked to make sure the time on mymachine was correct and the started debug. My app has read/write access.
I got 401 UnAuthorized.
this is the call Stack:
oAuthSample.DLL!oAuthExample.oAuthTwitter.WebResponseGet(System.Net.HttpWebRequest webRequest = {System.Net.HttpWebRequest}) Line 272 C#
oAuthSample.DLL!oAuthExample.oAuthTwitter.WebRequest(oAuthExample.oAuthTwitter.Method method = GET, string url = “http://twitter.com/oauth/request_token?oauth_callback=http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%3A4242&oauth_consumer_key={ consumer key removed}&oauth_nonce=9626540&oauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1&oauth_timestamp=1314571939&oauth_version=1.0&oauth_signature=JHeJa17jeT8Rcr6DnREsIxB5XVw%3D”, string postData = “”) Line 244 + 0xb bytes C#
oAuthSample.DLL!oAuthExample.oAuthTwitter.oAuthWebRequest(oAuthExample.oAuthTwitter.Method method = GET, string url = “http://twitter.com/oauth/request_token”, string postData = “”) Line 199 + 0x3d bytes C#
oAuthSample.DLL!oAuthExample.oAuthTwitter.AuthorizationLinkGet() Line 71 + 0×16 bytes C#
oAuthSample.DLL!oAuthExample._Default.Page_Load(object sender = {ASP.default_aspx}, System.EventArgs e = {System.EventArgs}) Line 54 + 0×18 bytes C#
any ideas?
Thanks
N
perfect! thank you.
How do I save the Oauth information after a user has given my app permission to access their Twitter info?
I can’t seem to figure out how to call Twitter again without the user having to re-authorize my app.
Thanks
@Jay – Save the values of the User Token and User Token Secret to a database at the end of the authentication process. After that, you can create the AuthTwitter object again, load the token and tokensecret values from your database, and make a Twitter call without asking for the credentials again.
I just Downloaded the full code, but I got 401 error below:
The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details: System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized.
Source Error:
Line 271: finally
Line 272: {
Line 273: webRequest.GetResponse().GetResponseStream().Close();
Line 274: responseReader.Close();
Line 275: responseReader = null;
Source File: C:\Users\ahe\Downloads\sample\oAuthTwitter.cs Line: 273
Stack Trace:
[WebException: The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized.]
System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse() +6111075
oAuthExample.oAuthTwitter.WebResponseGet(HttpWebRequest webRequest) in C:\Users\ahe\Downloads\sample\oAuthTwitter.cs:273
oAuthExample.oAuthTwitter.WebRequest(Method method, String url, String postData) in C:\Users\ahe\Downloads\sample\oAuthTwitter.cs:244
oAuthExample.oAuthTwitter.oAuthWebRequest(Method method, String url, String postData) in C:\Users\ahe\Downloads\sample\oAuthTwitter.cs:199
oAuthExample.oAuthTwitter.AuthorizationLinkGet() in C:\Users\ahe\Downloads\sample\oAuthTwitter.cs:71
oAuthExample._Default.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) in C:\Users\ahe\Downloads\sample\Default.aspx.cs:54
System.Web.Util.CalliHelper.EventArgFunctionCaller(IntPtr fp, Object o, Object t, EventArgs e) +14
System.Web.Util.CalliEventHandlerDelegateProxy.Callback(Object sender, EventArgs e) +35
System.Web.UI.Control.OnLoad(EventArgs e) +91
System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +74
System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +2207
Can anyone help me?
guys,
to avoid 401 Unauthorized error, make sure the Callback URL field in your app setting at dev.twitter.com is not blank.
even if you are setting the callback from the code, just put something there on the website.
http://twitpic.com/7h09go
[...] I’ve published a project on GitHub that includes examples for authenticating users with some of the major social sites. LinkedIn and Twitter have very similar oAuth implementations so I was able to leverage all of my earlier Twitter .NET oAuth work. [...]
If you experience the 401 error, make sure your app has Read and Write access in the Twitter developers website (https://dev.twitter.com/apps).
If you change the access permissions you need to recreate your access token.
Shannon:- I have used the application. But the Twitter icon (.png) is not showing in the Window. I am unable to fins the reason.
@Nishant – The links in the images assumed that the application was running at the website root. I removed the slashes in the new code.
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Good example, but I think it is on Oauth first version.
Do you know where I can find an appropriate code to Oauth 2 to .NET framework?
Thank you.
@Giampiero – Thanks. This is specific to Twitter and they don’t support oAuth 2.0 yet, so I haven’t looked into updating for 2.0.
Hi,
The below code marks an error for me.
“The name ‘apiResponse’ does not exist in the current context”
apiResponse.InnerHtml = Server.HtmlEncode(xml);
@David Reyes – apiResponse is just a textbox on the page that is used to display the output. If you don’t have a textbox with the name apiResponse, you can create it or simply view the results of “xml” in the debugger.
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Hello sir,
Just want to thank you up for the code and updates. After developing some applications with Twitter and FB using your code[a year ago], i was not in touch with oauth related development.
Your updated code is even more beneficial.
Today, I tried your code for Etsy and with some minor changes, it works like charm.
Thank you very much again.
Rocker
Thanks for the comment. You’re welcome.
Hi shannon i worked with the sample code provided by you.But now i was getting 401 aunthorized error while login only. i could able to post message using your code but while login i was getting this error. i have created new consumer key and consumer secret but still i could not able to get the twitter login screen . please help me on this.
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Pretty nice post. I just stumbled upon your blog and
wished to say that I’ve really enjoyed browsing your blog posts. In any case I will be subscribing to your rss feed and I hope you write again soon!