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Twitter auth

Easy Twitter API OAuth 2 Access

  1. Go to your applications. Create a new one, and find the values in the Consumer Key and Consumer Secret fields.

  2. Use OAuth client information to produce an OAuth 2 access token:

    curl -i --user <consumer_key>:<consumer_secret> -X POST https://api.twitter.com/oauth2/token -d "grant_type=client_credentials"
    
    {"access_token":"<oauth2_token>","token_type":"bearer"}% 
    
{
"Afghanistan": "Asia",
"Aland Islands": "Europe",
"Albania": "Europe",
"Algeria": "Africa",
"Andorra": "Europe",
"Angola": "Africa",
"Anguilla": "North America",
"Antigua and Barbuda": "North America",
"Argentina": "South America",
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