In this section, you will learn how to update profile of the user using Twiiter4j.
Updating Twitter Profile using Twitter4j
In this section, you will learn how to update profile of the user using Twiiter4j.
For authenticating user, we need OAuth authorization scheme of Twitter API. Twitter4j Java library have this OAuth support.
Please follow the below steps to get Twitter OAuth support :
STEP-1 : For this you need to register your application at http://twitter.com/oauth_clients/new . Please set the Default Access type to Read, Write, & Direct Messages . This will provide access to read & write tweet/status and also provide facility to send direct messages.
STEP-2 :After registering your application you will get the following things :
- Consumer key
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- Consumer secret
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- Request token URL XXXXXXXXXXXX
- Authorize URL
XXXXXXXXXXXX
- Access token URL XXXXXXXXXXXX
- Callback URL XXXXXXXXXXXX
- Access token XXXXXXXXXXXX
- Access token secret XXXXXXXXXXXX
- Access level Read XXXXXXXXXXXX
NOTE : Please note down the keys before closing page after application registration and also don't share these keys with anyone.
CODE
Place the keys which you got after registration by replacing the square [] brackets .Code is given below :
<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1" import="java.util.*,twitter4j.*,twitter4j.conf.ConfigurationBuilder"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<%@page import="twitter4j.ProfileImage.ImageSize"%><html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Update Profile</title>
</head>
<body>
<%
// configuring Twitter4J
ConfigurationBuilder cb = new ConfigurationBuilder();
cb.setDebugEnabled(true);
cb.setOAuthConsumerKey("onwb5eTcnbxamLtN0efw");
cb.setOAuthConsumerSecret("3l8mWbhZyrAUYXbAxrIdk97iVMz7zHd6Ow3M5b2tZg");
cb.setOAuthAccessToken("129103460-5u2MZv4nlOD1lgFNDfgPLCzkb6vbtF2vPb7tKSLd");
cb.setOAuthAccessTokenSecret("aDZcrbpNCLyTTbSix9VnT8HR0NtLsKutqqrboq0Zs");
TwitterFactory tf = new TwitterFactory(cb.build());
Twitter twitter = tf.getInstance();
out.println("<h2>USER :"+twitter.getScreenName()+"</h2><br/>");
//Updating user Profile.
twitter.updateProfile("Ankit k kaushal","http://www.roseindia.in/","New Delhi,India","Updating for devmanuals.");
out.println("Profile of "+twitter.getScreenName()+" is updated succefully");
%>
</body>
</html>
OUTPUT
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