Media Type: Twitter DM

[Voxie]

I have create a media type to sent notification as DM on Twitter.

Before you can use this script you have to create a twitter app and get the secret and acccess key from the account where you want to sent messages from.

In the profile of the user you set the twitter-account you want to sent a message to.
The sender has to follow that twitter account and that twitter account needs to follow you.


It uses the default twitteroauth files that you can download from twitter.
You have to download it and put it a folder called twitteroauth in the same directory as this script.

#!/usr/bin/php
<?php
 
/* Load required lib files. */
session_start();

require_once('twitteroauth/twitteroauth.php');
require_once('twitteroauth/config.php');


//acceskey and secret.
$access = "<your access>";
$secret = "<your secret>";


if (count($argv)<3) {
    die ("Usage: ".$argv[0]." recipient \"subject\" \"message\"\n");
}

if ( $debug )
    file_put_contents($logfilelocation."twitter_alert_".date("YmdHis"), serialize($argv));

$to         = $argv[1];
$subject    = $argv[2];  // not being used
$message    = $argv[3];



/* Create a TwitterOauth object with consumer/user tokens. */
$connection = new TwitterOAuth(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET, $access, $secret);

/* If method is set change API call made. Test is called by default. */
$content = $connection->get('account/verify_credentials');

/* Some example calls */
$tw = $connection->post('direct_messages/new', array( 'screen_name' => $to, 'text' => $subject ) );


/* Include HTML to display on the page */
include('twitteroauth/html.inc');

[efrain02]

I'm trying this right now. But i have a question... on twitter there's a Consumer key and Consumer secret. And at the bottom of the page there's a Access token and Access token Secret. I want to know which of these do you use?
Thanks.

[Javier]

In this blog, http://goo.gl/irTUU, in Spanish, it specifies how to send alerts to twitter in python code and using oauth.

The sample code:

#!/usr/bin/python

import sys
import tweepy

CONSUMER_KEY = 'xxxxxxxxx'
CONSUMER_SECRET = 'yyyyyyyy'
ACCESS_KEY = '000000000'
ACCESS_SECRET = 'zzzzzzzzz'

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET)
auth.set_access_token(ACCESS_KEY, ACCESS_SECRET)
api = tweepy.API(auth)
api.update_status(sys.argv[2])

[efrain02]

Thankyou so much. Muchas gracias... en este momento lo reviso a ver que tal. Gracias de nuevo