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Grab oauth token for use with Nitter (requires Twitter account)
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#!/bin/bash | |
# Grab oauth token for use with Nitter (requires Twitter account). | |
# results: {"oauth_token":"xxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxx","oauth_token_secret":"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"} | |
username="" | |
password="" | |
if [[ -z "$username" || -z "$password" ]]; then | |
echo "needs username and password" | |
exit 1 | |
fi | |
bearer_token='AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAFXzAwAAAAAAMHCxpeSDG1gLNLghVe8d74hl6k4%3DRUMF4xAQLsbeBhTSRrCiQpJtxoGWeyHrDb5te2jpGskWDFW82F' | |
guest_token=$(curl -s -XPOST https://api.twitter.com/1.1/guest/activate.json -H "Authorization: Bearer ${bearer_token}" | jq -r '.guest_token') | |
base_url='https://api.twitter.com/1.1/onboarding/task.json' | |
header=(-H "Authorization: Bearer ${bearer_token}" -H "User-Agent: TwitterAndroid/10.21.1" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "X-Guest-Token: ${guest_token}") | |
# start flow | |
flow_1=$(curl -si -XPOST "${base_url}?flow_name=login" "${header[@]}") | |
# get 'att', now needed in headers, and 'flow_token' from flow_1 | |
att=$(sed -En 's/^att: (.*)\r/\1/p' <<< "${flow_1}") | |
flow_token=$(sed -n '$p' <<< "${flow_1}" | jq -r .flow_token) | |
# username | |
token_2=$(curl -s -XPOST "${base_url}" -H "att: ${att}" "${header[@]}" \ | |
-d '{"flow_token":"'"${flow_token}"'","subtask_inputs":[{"subtask_id":"LoginEnterUserIdentifierSSO","settings_list":{"setting_responses":[{"key":"user_identifier","response_data":{"text_data":{"result":"'"${username}"'"}}}],"link":"next_link"}}]}' | jq -r .flow_token) | |
# password | |
token_3=$(curl -s -XPOST "${base_url}" -H "att: ${att}" "${header[@]}" \ | |
-d '{"flow_token":"'"${token_2}"'","subtask_inputs":[{"enter_password":{"password":"'"${password}"'","link":"next_link"},"subtask_id":"LoginEnterPassword"}]}' | jq -r .flow_token) | |
# finally print oauth_token and secret | |
curl -s -XPOST "${base_url}" -H "att: ${att}" "${header[@]}" \ | |
-d '{"flow_token":"'"${token_3}"'","subtask_inputs":[{"check_logged_in_account":{"link":"AccountDuplicationCheck_false"},"subtask_id":"AccountDuplicationCheck"}]}' | \ | |
jq -c '.subtasks[0]|if(.open_account) then {oauth_token: .open_account.oauth_token, oauth_token_secret: .open_account.oauth_token_secret} else empty end' |
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@LarchLiu I took another look at this... The issue was there were control characters at the end of the att header that mangled the request, so
accounting for the carriage return ^M (\r) fixes this.col -b
now strips themCleaned up other elements too so it should work everywhere.
and,