Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Feb 2015 22:20:38 -0500, gregjohn wrote:
>
> > Hi, I started playing with Twitter API.  I have lots of permissions and
> > keys but no idea how to start using them.
> >
> > I ultimately want to start using "GET statuses/user_timeline".  I am
> > told to type in a signature base string, authorization header, and cURL
> > command.  Is this, um, in Python?  Unfortunately the main page which
> > might explain things isn't loading.
> >
> > Can someone recommend a good programming dev environment for the Mac in
> > which I can use those commands. thanks.
>
> Sounds like a REST API. cURL is sometimes used for that from a bash
> prompt.
>
> If you do Python development, have a look at the python-requests package
> - I do a little python/REST work myself for work, and I've found that to
> be the easiest way to handle this - python-requests will manage the
> session, so you only need to perform the authentication once (that's
> usually in addition to the authorization header, which I think includes
> an API key of some sort).
>
> Jim


Okay, thanks!  I just want to grab a big slew of tweets, from 600 individuals
I've pre-selected, "one time", not necessarily make a full-blown application.
But it looks like the API may be the only officially approved way to do so.
(Counterevidence?)    Okay, I'll look at python-requests.   The one thing I do
find quite odd is in a world with dozens of programming environments, they
Twitter API team just dumps code out there with no explanation.

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