Twitter API returns error 215 Bad Authentication Data

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I am trying to call following Twitter s API to get a list of followers for a user   http   api twitter com 1 1 followers ids json cursor -1 amp screen name username  And I am getting this error message in response         code   215      message    Bad Authentication data       I can t seem to find the documentation related to this error code  Anyone has any idea about this error

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Here first every one need to use oauth2 token api then use followers list api  Other wise you will get this error  Because followers list api requires  Authentication     In swift  for mobile app  me also got the same problem   If you want to know the api s and it s parameters follow this link   Get twitter friends list in swift

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The answer by Gruik worked for me in the below thread    Excerpt   Zend Service Twitter - Make API v1 1 ready      with ZF 1 12 3 the workaround is to pass consumerKey and consumerSecret in oauthOptions option  not directrly in the options         options   array           username    gt                    accessToken    gt                    oauthOptions    gt  array               consumerKey    gt                        consumerSecret    gt

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I know that this is old but yesterday I faced the same issue when calling this URL using C  and the HttpClient class with the Bearer authentication token   http   api twitter com 1 1 followers ids json cursor -1 amp screen name username  It turns out that the solution for me was to use HTTPS instead of HTTP  So my URL would look like this   https   api twitter com 1 1 followers ids json cursor -1 amp screen name username  So here is a snippet of my code               using  var client   new HttpClient                                  client BaseAddress   new Uri  https   api twitter com 1 1                     client DefaultRequestHeaders Accept Clear                    client DefaultRequestHeaders Accept Add new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue  application json                     client DefaultRequestHeaders Add  Authorization    Bearer      YOUR BEARER TOKEN GOES HERE                          var response   client GetAsync  statuses user timeline json count 10 amp screen name username   Result                  if   response IsSuccessStatusCode                                        return result                                    var items   response Content ReadAsAsync lt IEnumerable lt dynamic gt  gt    Result                  foreach  dynamic item in items                                          Do the needful

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I m using HybridAuth and was running into this error connecting to Twitter  I tracked it down to  me  sending Twitter an incorrectly cased request type  get post instead of GET POST    This would cause a 215    call     search tweets json    call type    get    call args   array       q              gt   pancakes        count          gt  5      response    provider api- gt api   call   call type   call args      This would not    call     search tweets json    call type    GET    call args   array       q              gt   pancakes        count          gt  5      response    provider api- gt api   call   call type   call args      Side note  In the case of HybridAuth the following also would not  because HA internally provides the correctly-cased value for the request type     call     search tweets json    call args   array       q              gt   pancakes        count          gt  5      response    providers  Twitter  - gt get   call   call args

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The only solution I ve found so far is    Create application in twitter developer panel Authorize user with your application  or your application in user account  and save  oauth token  and  oauth token secret  which Twitter gives you  Use TwitterOAuth library for this  it s pretty easy  see examples coming with library  Using this tokens you can make authenticated requests on behalf of user  You can do it with the same library      Arguments 1 and 2 - your application static tokens  2 and 3 - user tokens  received from Twitter during authentification    connection   new TwitterOAuth TWITTER CONSUMER KEY  TWITTER CONSUMER SECRET   tokens  oauth token     tokens  oauth token secret        connection- gt host    https   api twitter com 1 1       By default library uses API version 1     friendsJson    connection- gt get   friends ids json cursor -1 amp user id 34342323         This will return you list of user s friends

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A very concise code without any other php file include of oauth etc  Please note to obtain following keys you need to sign up with https   dev twitter com and create application    lt  php  token    YOUR TOKEN    token secret    YOUR TOKEN SECRET    consumer key    CONSUMER KEY    consumer secret    CONSUMER SECRET     host    api twitter com    method    GET    path     1 1 statuses user timeline json      api call path   query   array     query parameters      screen name    gt   twitterapi        count    gt   5       oauth   array       oauth consumer key    gt   consumer key       oauth token    gt   token       oauth nonce    gt   string mt rand       a stronger nonce is recommended      oauth timestamp    gt  time         oauth signature method    gt   HMAC-SHA1        oauth version    gt   1 0       oauth   array map  rawurlencode    oauth      must be encoded before sorting  query   array map  rawurlencode    query     arr   array merge  oauth   query      combine the values THEN sort  asort  arr      secondary sort  value  ksort  arr      primary sort  key      http build query automatically encodes  but our parameters    are already encoded  and must be by this point  so we undo    the encoding step  querystring   urldecode http build query  arr        amp        url    https    host path       mash everything together for the text to hash  base string    method   amp   rawurlencode  url    amp   rawurlencode  querystring       same with the key  key   rawurlencode  consumer secret    amp   rawurlencode  token secret       generate the hash  signature   rawurlencode base64 encode hash hmac  sha1    base string   key  true         this time we re using a normal GET query  and we re only encoding the query params     without the oauth params   url        http build query  query    url str replace   amp amp     amp    url     Patch by  Frewuill   oauth  oauth signature      signature     don t want to abandon all that work  ksort  oauth      probably not necessary  but twitter s demo does it     also not necessary  but twitter s demo does this too function add quotes  str    return      str         oauth   array map  add quotes    oauth       this is the full value of the Authorization line  auth    OAuth     urldecode http build query  oauth                  if you re doing post  you need to skip the GET building above    and instead supply query parameters to CURLOPT POSTFIELDS  options   array  CURLOPT HTTPHEADER   gt  array  Authorization   auth                        CURLOPT POSTFIELDS   gt   postfields                    CURLOPT HEADER   gt  false                    CURLOPT URL   gt   url                    CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER   gt  true                    CURLOPT SSL VERIFYPEER   gt  false       do our business  feed   curl init    curl setopt array  feed   options    json   curl exec  feed   curl close  feed     twitter data   json decode  json     foreach   twitter data as  amp  value        tweetout    preg replace    http       www         s lt   4 68     s lt          lt a href  http    2 3  target   blank  gt  1 2 4 lt  a gt     value- gt text       tweetout   preg replace      w        lt a href   http   www twitter com   1   target    blank   gt    1 lt  a gt     tweetout       tweetout   preg replace      w        lt a href   http   search twitter com search q   1   target    blank   gt    1 lt  a gt     tweetout      echo  tweetout     gt    Regards

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FOUND A SOLUTION - using the Abraham TwitterOAuth library  If you are using an older implementation  the following lines should be added after the new TwitterOAuth object is instantiated     connection- gt host    https   api twitter com 1 1     connection- gt ssl verifypeer   TRUE   connection- gt content type    application x-www-form-urlencoded     The first 2 lines are now documented in Abraham library Readme file  but the 3rd one is not  Also make sure that your oauth version is still 1 0    Here is my code for getting all user data from  users show  with a newly authenticated user and returning the user full name and user icon with 1 1 - the following code is implemented in the authentication callback file   session start    require   twitteroauth twitteroauth php    require   twitteroauth config php      consumer key                        consumer secret                                           to   new TwitterOAuth  consumer key   consumer secret     tok    to- gt getRequestToken  http   exampleredirect com twitoa 1      token    tok  oauth token     secret    tok  oauth token secret       save tokens to session   SESSION  ttok      token    SESSION  tsec      secret    request link    to- gt getAuthorizeURL  token TRUE    header  Location       request link     The following code then is in the redirect after authentication and token request  if   REQUEST  twitoa    1       require   twitteroauth twitteroauth php        require once  twitteroauth config php          Twitter Creds      consumer key                             consumer secret                                                 oauth token     GET  oauth token      ex Request vals- gt http   domain com twitter callback php oauth token MQZFhVRAP6jjsJdTunRYPXoPFzsXXKK0mQS3SxhNXZI amp oauth verifier A5tYHnAsbxf3DBinZ1dZEj0hPgVdQ6vvjBJYg5UdJI       ttok     SESSION  ttok         tsec     SESSION  tsec          to   new TwitterOAuth  consumer key   consumer secret   ttok   tsec        tok    to- gt getAccessToken         btok    tok  oauth token         bsec    tok  oauth token secret         twit u id    tok  user id         twit screen name    tok  screen name           Twitter 1 1 DEBUG       print r  tok         echo   lt br  gt  lt br  gt          print r  to         echo   lt br  gt  lt br  gt          echo  btok     lt br  gt  lt br  gt          echo  bsec     lt br  gt  lt br  gt          echo  twit u id     lt br  gt  lt br  gt          echo  twit screen name     lt br  gt  lt br  gt          twit screen name urlencode  twit screen name        connection   new TwitterOAuth  consumer key   consumer secret   btok   bsec        connection- gt host    https   api twitter com 1 1         connection- gt ssl verifypeer   TRUE       connection- gt content type    application x-www-form-urlencoded        ucontent    connection- gt get  users show   array  screen name    gt   twit screen name           echo  connection  lt br  gt  lt br  gt          print r  connection         echo   lt br  gt  lt br  gt          print r  ucontent         t user name    ucontent- gt name       t user icon    ucontent- gt profile image url         echo  t user name   lt br  gt  lt br  gt          echo  t user icon   lt br  gt  lt br  gt        It took me way too long to figure this one out  Hope this helps someone

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Try this twitter API explorer  you can sign in as a developer and query whatever you want

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The url with  1 1  in it is correct  it is the new Twitter API Version 1 1   But you need an application and authorize your application  and the user  using oAuth   Read more about this on the Twitter Developers documentation site

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You need to send customerKey and customerSecret to Zend Service Twitter   twitter   new Zend Service Twitter array                   consumerKey    gt   this- gt consumer key                   consumerSecret    gt   this- gt consumer secret                   username    gt   user- gt screenName                   accessToken    gt  unserialize  user- gt token

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Be sure that you have read AND write access for application in twitter

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This might help someone who use Zend Oauth Client to work with twitter api  This working config    accessToken   new Zend Oauth Token Access     accessToken- gt setToken  accessToken     accessToken- gt setTokenSecret  accessTokenSecret      client    accessToken- gt getHttpClient array       requestScheme    gt  Zend Oauth  REQUEST SCHEME HEADER       version    gt   1 0      it was 1 1 and I got 215 error       signatureMethod    gt   HMAC-SHA1        consumerKey    gt   foo        consumerSecret    gt   bar        requestTokenUrl    gt   https   api twitter com oauth request token        authorizeUrl    gt   https   api twitter com oauth authorize        accessTokenUrl    gt   https   api twitter com oauth access token        timeout    gt  30       It look like twitter api 1 0 allows oauth version to be 1 1 and 1 0  where twitter api 1 1 require only oauth version to be 1 0   P S We do not use Zend Service Twitter as it does not allow send custom params on status update

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After two days of research I finally found that to access s o  public tweets you just need any application credentials  and not that particular user ones  So if you are developing for a client  you don t have to ask them to do anything   To use the new Twitter API 1 1 you need two things    the Abraham s TwitterOAuth library that Dante Cullari already mentioned a brand new or already working application created via the Twitter Developer site   First  you can  actually have to  create an application with your own credentials and then get the Access token  OAUTH TOKEN  and Access token secret  OAUTH TOKEN SECRET  from the  Your access token  section  Then you supply them in the constructor for the new TwitterOAuth object  Now you can access anyone public tweets    connection   new TwitterOAuth  CONSUMER KEY  CONSUMER SECRET  OAUTH TOKEN  OAUTH TOKEN SECRET      connection- gt host    https   api twitter com 1 1       change the default  connection- gt ssl verifypeer   TRUE   connection- gt content type    application x-www-form-urlencoded     tweets    connection- gt get  http   api twitter com 1 1 statuses user timeline json screen name    username   amp count    count     Actually I think this is what Pavel has suggested also  but it is not so obvious from his answer   Hope this saves someone else those two days

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I was facing the same problem all the time the only solution I figurae out is typing CONSUMER KEY and CONSUMER SECRET directly to new TwitterOAuth class defination     connection   new TwitterOAuth    MY CK     MY CS        Don t use variable or statics on this and see if the issue sloved

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UPDATE  Twitter API 1 is now deprecated  Refer to above answer   Twitter 1 1 does not work with that syntax  when I wrote this answer   Needs to be 1  not 1 1  This will work   http   api twitter com 1 followers ids json cursor -1 amp screen name username

[php] Twitter API returns error 215, Bad Authentication Data

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