Build your Twitter API app in Clojure, Part 1
Building your own Twitter API application in Clojure is made real easy now thanks to clojure-twitter and clj-oauth libraries.
In this part, I will simply show you how easy it is to access the Twitter API using clojure-twitter. Here, I update my own Twitter status:
(require 'twitter ['oauth.client :as 'oauth]) (def consumer (oauth/make-consumer <consumer-token> <consumer-token-secret> "http://twitter.com/oauth/request_token" "http://twitter.com/oauth/access_token" "http://twitter.com/oauth/authorize" :hmac-sha1)) (def request-token (:oauth_token (oauth/request-token consumer))) (oauth/user-approval-uri consumer request-token <callback-uri>) (def access-token-response (oauth/access-token consumer request-token <verifier>)) (twitter/with-oauth consumer (:oauth_token access-token-response) (:oauth_token_secret access-token-response) (twitter/update-status "#clojure is awesome"))
Making it all work:
- Download the latest version of clojure-twitter
- Download the latest version of clj-oauth
- Add clojure-twitter.jar and dependents in the clojure-twitter/lib directory to your classpath
- Next, you will need to register an application at Twitter here in order to obtain a Consumer token and token secret
- Once you have register the application, launch REPL and replace <consumer-token> and <consumer-token-secret> in the above code snippet accordingly
- Additionally, replace the <callback-uri> with the “Application Website” you defined in the application registration.
- Once the user approval URI has been accessed and accepted, the verifier PIN code will be provide which needs to replace the <verifier>
In part 2, I will go through a more detailed, step-by-step example that demonstrates building a real-world Twitter API app in Clojure. Follow me on Twitter and I’ll keep you posted.
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