Super simple PHP twitter oauth request without user context (https://dev.twitter.com/docs/auth/application-only-auth)

twitter_oauth_curl.php

/*
* using curl
*/

$key = 'YOUR_KEY_HERE';
$secret = 'YOUR_SECRET_HERE';
$api_endpoint = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/users/show.json?screen_name=marcosfernandez'; // endpoint must support "Application-only authentication"

// request token
$basic_credentials = base64_encode($key.':'.$secret);
$tk = curl_init('https://api.twitter.com/oauth2/token');
curl_setopt($tk, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Authorization: Basic '.$basic_credentials, 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8'));
curl_setopt($tk, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'grant_type=client_credentials');
curl_setopt($tk, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$token = json_decode(curl_exec($tk));
curl_close($tk);

// use token
if (isset($token->token_type) && $token->token_type == 'bearer') {
	$br = curl_init($api_endpoint);
	curl_setopt($br, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Authorization: Bearer '.$token->access_token));
	curl_setopt($br, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
	$data = curl_exec($br);
	curl_close($br);
  
	// do_something_here_with($data);
}

twitter_oauth_no-curl.php

/*
* using file_get_contents
*/

$key = 'YOUR_KEY_HERE';
$secret = 'YOUR_SECRET_HERE';
$api_endpoint = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/users/show.json?screen_name=marcosfernandez'; // endpoint must support "Application-only authentication"

// request token
$basic_credentials = base64_encode($key.':'.$secret);
$opts = array('http' =>
	array(
		'method'  => 'POST',
		'header'  =>    'Authorization: Basic '.$basic_credentials."\r\n".
		"Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8\r\n",
		'content' => 'grant_type=client_credentials'
	)
);

$context  = stream_context_create($opts);

// send request
$pre_token = file_get_contents('https://api.twitter.com/oauth2/token', false, $context);

$token = json_decode($pre_token, true);

if (isset($token["token_type"]) && $token["token_type"] == "bearer"){
	$opts = array('http' =>
		array(
			'method'  => 'GET',
			'header'  => 'Authorization: Bearer '.$token["access_token"]       
		)
	);

	$context  = stream_context_create($opts);

	$data = file_get_contents($api_endpoint, false, $context);
  
	// do_something_here_with($data);
}

thanks for this, I had to add these 2 curl options to get it working for me.

in twitter_oauth_curl.php you should add:

curl_setopt($tk, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'POST');
curl_setopt($tk, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);

Thanks man! Helped me a lot.

What's this man for?

I want to make a friend using friendship/create, it's possible?

What should be required to do twitter OAuth request with user context?

API endpoint is:- https://api.twitter.com/1.1/account_activity/webhooks/:webhook_id/subscriptions.json
Requires Authentication | Yes (user context only)

I know this is super old now but isn't setting

curl_setopt($tk, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);

super unsafe?