Twitter v2 Oauth2 send tweet from Ruby on Rails

1-oauth2_tweet_from_ruby.md

These instructions set up a way to publish tweets to Twitter's OAuth2 API from a Ruby on Rails app.

1. Set up a twitter account via the Twitter account setup instructions here: https://github.com/jkotchoff/twitter_oauth2#twitter-account-setup

2. Add the twitter_oauth2 gem and something to issue HTTP requests (like Typhoeus) to your Gemfile:

gem 'twitter_oauth2'
gem 'typhoeus'

3. Introduce a rails migration to persist your oauth2 token in a single database record in a table (and update it when it needs refreshing)

class CreateTwitterTokens < ActiveRecord::Migration[7.0]
  def change
    create_table :twitter_tokens do |t|
      t.string :marshaled_client, null: false
      t.string :marshaled_token, null: false

      t.timestamps
    end
  end
end

4. Retrieve and persist your token (refer one-off.rb in this gist)

5. Use the token to write tweets to the twitter API, refreshing and persisting the token when it expires (refer app/models/twitter.rb in this gist)

2-one-off.rb

# Redirect uri doesn't matter, it will redirect your browser to this path and you can then get the code from that redirect
client = TwitterOAuth2::Client.new(
  identifier: "YOUR-TWITTER-DEVELOPER-OAUTH2-TOKEN-ID",
  secret: "YOUR-TWITTER-DEVELOPER-OAUTH2-TOKEN-SECRET",
  redirect_uri: "https://stocklight.com/api/twitter/callback",
)

ARGV.clear

authorization_uri = client.authorization_uri(
  scope: [
    :'users.read',
    :'tweet.read',
    :'tweet.write',
    :'offline.access'
  ]
)

code_verifier = client.code_verifier
state = client.state

puts authorization_uri

# Get the code from the callback URL

print 'code: ' and STDOUT.flush
code = gets.chop

client.authorization_code = code
token_response = client.access_token! code_verifier

Twitter.first_or_initialize.tap do |twitter_token|
  twitter_token.update(
    marshaled_client: Marshal.dump(client),
    marshaled_token: Marshal.dump(token_response),
  )
end

3-app-models-twitter.rb

class Twitter < ApplicationRecord
  self.table_name = "twitter_tokens"

  validates_presence_of :marshaled_client, :marshaled_token

  class RetryableTwitterApiError < StandardError; end

  # For testing
  def self.user_lookup
    poll_api(
      url: "https://api.twitter.com/2/users/me",
      method: :get,
      successful_response_code: 200,
      params: {}
    )
  end

  def self.tweet(tweet)
    poll_api(
      url: "https://api.twitter.com/2/tweets",
      method: :post,
      successful_response_code: 201,
      params: {
        body: {
          text: tweet,
        }.to_json  
      }
    )
  end

  private_class_method def self.poll_api(url:, method:, successful_response_code:, params:)
    attempts ||= 0
    attempts += 1

    instance = self.first

    options = {
      method: method, 
      headers: { 
        "Content-Type" => "application/json",
        Authorization: "Bearer #{instance.access_token}" 
      },
    }.merge(params)
    request = Typhoeus::Request.new(url, options)
    response = request.run
    if response.code == 401 && attempts < 2
      raise RetryableTwitterApiError
    end

    raise "#{response.code} response code received polling #{url}" if response.code != successful_response_code

    JSON.parse(response.body)
  rescue RetryableTwitterApiError
    instance.refresh_token!
    retry
  end


  delegate :access_token, to: :token

  def refresh_token!
    client.refresh_token = token.refresh_token
    new_token = client.access_token!
    update(
      marshaled_client: Marshal.dump(client),
      marshaled_token: Marshal.dump(new_token),  
    )
  end

  private

  #TODO: don't use Marshal.load here, it violates a security concern according to rubocop
  def client
    @client ||= Marshal.load(marshaled_client)
  end

  def token
    @token ||= Marshal.load(marshaled_token)
  end
end

hey @jkotchoff I am trying to use this code for authorization and I have a sample like you put here. Just inside controller index action I put all the code from [2-one-off.rb] file and now I come to code and I stuck there I also put my real callback of my site live there

SO I suppose I would need to see somewhere this code and put here in console but I dont see it, also I dont see any request to my callback. What am I doing wrong here?

Hey @nezirz, you’ll want to run the one off code in a console. On line 22, you’ll see a url which will be printed to output which you can open in your browser manually. You’ll want that browser to be already authenticated into your twitter developer account.

That url will prompt you for permission and then redirect your local browser to the callback url (ie. the stocklight url) which probably won’t resolve properly however it will contain a ‘code’ query string parameter which you can then take off that redirected url and use in the rest of the one-off script.

worked fine, thank you @jkotchoff