I want to use twitter api without authentication.
Is it possible?
For example, I am going to get the user profile for certain user.
Can I get his user profile without authentication?
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The official Twitter API documentation can be found here.
The official Twitter API documentation can be found here.
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User authentication is mandatory. You also need to create a customer account and use the authentication for that.
You will also need to deal with api rate limiting by adding a small sleep time of around 60 seconds.
You can use this link to see some working code.
All Twitter API calls require the use of OAuth and a registered application with consumer key and token. They also require HTTPS.
A small number of API endpoints can be called without the use of a user context (“application-only” authentication). You can call the users/show.json endpoint with application-only authentication using a bearer token and no user context, but that will only work for public Twitter profiles, not protected ones.