Twitter user_timeline JSONP. No response

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The problem is that Twitter now (stupidly) requires OAuth even for public data. An easy enough workaround is to have a local php script which OAuths and gets the data and access that with Ajax as opposed to Ajaxing twitter directly.

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I'm currently trying to pull user timelines from twitter using the Reqwest JavaScript library. However when I do so the request is considered successful but no data is retrieved and the console displays a GET error. The code im trying is as follows:

$.domReady(function () {

    $.ajax({
        url: 'http://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=twitter',
        type: 'jsonp',
        success: function (response) {
            console.log(response);
        },
        error: function (err) {
            console.log(err);
        }
    });

})

Answer 1

If we want to, we can still parse their pages and reimplement at least a bit of lost functionality with pure client-side JS.

What we need is: a CORS proxy that can deal with HTTPS pages (the only I know is YQL APIs) and the knowledge of how the information is retreived on their public pages. Keeping this in mind, we can fetch, for example, recent 20 tweets from a user, as I did in the demo: http://jsbin.com/agejol/1 (click "Edit in JSBin" to view the code)

P.S. I know this may violate their policy but I care about it just as much as they cared about us when they dropped all their client-side APIs.

Answer 2

I just updated a plugin of mine to work with the Twitter 1.1 API. Unfortunately, per Twitter's urging, you will have to perform the actual request from server-side code. However, you can pass the response to the plugin and it will take care of the rest. I don't know what framework you are running, but I have already added sample code for making the request in C#, and will be adding sample code for PHP, shortly.

Answer 3

Try to pass parameter jsoncallback. http://jsfiddle.net/CCTKa/

I just got Bad Authentication data error.