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Twitter Bot: Get access token for another account without 3-legged OAuth flow? – Twitter API

I am in control of three twitter accounts: One is my main account, the other two are supposed to automatically post content via a bot. I created the bot logic and added it to Twitter’s development tools and I can easily use it to post to my main account.

Now I need to add the access tokens for my two secondary accounts. My question is – what’s the easiest way to do this.

As far as I can see, Twitter only enables one way to do this: 3-legged OAuth flow. It is not too complex, but it seems to me to require setting up a mock website with callback url, which seems like too much considering I only need to generate two api tokens. Am I missing something?

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    You’re not missing something. The reason this is required is to force users have a browser they trust open and see that they are on https://twitter.com/, so they can trust that it’s a safe place to put in their password.

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    There are some alternative ways to generate access token and access token secret for OAuth 1.0A via command line tools which allow you to use the “PIN-based” OAuth flow.

    One example would be Twitter’s own twurl tool for API testing, which requires you to also have Ruby installed. This will let you authenticate a user account (it still pops open a window onto twitter.com to have you do the authentication) and stores them into the ~/.twurlrc file in your home directory. There is also tw-oob-oauth-cli which is a standalone app for doing the same thing.

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