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public void UpdateStatus(string message)
{
// Application tokens
const string CONSUMER_KEY = "YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY";
const string CONSUMER_SECRET = "YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET";
// Access tokens
const string ACCESS_TOKEN = "YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN";
const string ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET = "YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET";
// Common parameters
const string VERSION = "1.0";
const string SIGNATURE_METHOD = "HMAC-SHA1";
// Parameters specific to this request
var nonce = new Random().Next(0x0000000, 0x7fffffff).ToString("X8");
var timestamp = ((int) (DateTime.UtcNow - new DateTime(1970, 1, 1)).TotalSeconds).ToString();
// Prepare the text to sign
var dataToSign = new StringBuilder();
dataToSign
.Append("POST")
.Append("&")
.Append("http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/update.xml".EncodeRFC3986())
.Append("&");
// Values to sign: oauth parameters AND request parameters
var signatureParts = new Dictionary<string, string>
{
{"status", message.EncodeRFC3986()},
{"oauth_version", VERSION},
{"oauth_consumer_key", CONSUMER_KEY},
{"oauth_nonce", nonce},
{"oauth_signature_method", SIGNATURE_METHOD},
{"oauth_timestamp", timestamp},
{"oauth_token", ACCESS_TOKEN}
};
dataToSign.Append(
signatureParts
.OrderBy(x => x.Key)
.Select(x => "{0}={1}".FormatWith(x.Key, x.Value))
.Join("&")
.EncodeRFC3986());
// Calculate the signature key required to sign the request
var signatureKey = "{0}&{1}".FormatWith(CONSUMER_SECRET.EncodeRFC3986(), ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET.EncodeRFC3986());
var sha1 = new HMACSHA1(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(signatureKey));
var signatureBytes = sha1.ComputeHash(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(dataToSign.ToString()));
var signature = Convert.ToBase64String(signatureBytes);
// Create and setup the actual request
var request = (HttpWebRequest) WebRequest.Create("http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/update.xml");
request.Method = "POST";
request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
// Set authorization header
request.Headers.Add(
"Authorization",
new StringBuilder("OAuth ")
.AppendFormat("{0}=\"{1}\"", "oauth_nonce".EncodeRFC3986(), nonce.EncodeRFC3986()).Append(",")
.AppendFormat("{0}=\"{1}\"", "oauth_signature_method".EncodeRFC3986(), SIGNATURE_METHOD.EncodeRFC3986()).Append(",")
.AppendFormat("{0}=\"{1}\"", "oauth_timestamp".EncodeRFC3986(), timestamp.EncodeRFC3986()).Append(",")
.AppendFormat("{0}=\"{1}\"", "oauth_consumer_key".EncodeRFC3986(), CONSUMER_KEY.EncodeRFC3986()).Append(",")
.AppendFormat("{0}=\"{1}\"", "oauth_token".EncodeRFC3986(), ACCESS_TOKEN.EncodeRFC3986()).Append(",")
.AppendFormat("{0}=\"{1}\"", "oauth_signature".EncodeRFC3986(), signature.EncodeRFC3986()).Append(",")
.AppendFormat("{0}=\"{1}\"", "oauth_version".EncodeRFC3986(), VERSION.EncodeRFC3986())
.ToString());
// Add request body with request parameters
var requestBody = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("status={0}".FormatWith(message.EncodeRFC3986()));
using (var stream = request.GetRequestStream())
stream.Write(requestBody, 0, requestBody.Length);
// ... and here we go!
request.GetResponse();
// We could analyze the response, but since we'll get an exception if
// something fails, we don't need to mess with response content
}
public static string Join<T>(this IEnumerable<T> items, string separator)
{
return string.Join(separator, items.ToArray());
}
public static string FormatWith(this string format, params object[] args)
{
return string.Format(format, args);
}
// From Twitterizer http://www.twitterizer.net/
public static string EncodeRFC3986(this string value)
{
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(value))
return string.Empty;
var encoded = Uri.EscapeDataString(value);
return Regex
.Replace(encoded, "(%[0-9a-f][0-9a-f])", c => c.Value.ToUpper())
.Replace("(", "%28")
.Replace(")", "%29")
.Replace("$", "%24")
.Replace("!", "%21")
.Replace("*", "%2A")
.Replace("'", "%27")
.Replace("%7E", "~");
}
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