Langsdorf / BlackBird

Twitter API for Java.

BlackBird 🐦

A simple Twitter API for Java using ScribeJava 🐶.

Learning project

Why BlackBird? 😕

It's simple, fast and easy! Why not?

Examples 👉

Check out the Examples page.

Maven 💻

You can use BlackBird with Maven by using JitPack: `

<repositories>
	<repository>
	    <id>jitpack.io</id>
	    <url>https://jitpack.io</url>
	</repository>
</repositories>

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.github.Langsdorf</groupId>
    <artifactId>BlackBird</artifactId>
    <version>1.0</version>
</dependency>

Downloads 💾

Check out the releases page.

Questions ❓

Feel free to create an issue.

Getting Started

Using the API with your user:

1. Go to the Twitter Apps Page

1.1 Create an application

1.2 Once you have created the application, go to the "Keys and Access Tokens" page

1.3 Go to the bottom of the page and click on "Create my access token"

1.4 Now you have Consumer Key, Consumer Secret, Access Token and Access Token Secret

1.5 Create the BlackBird object:

BlackBird blackBird = new BlackBird(consumerKey, consumerSecret, accessToken, accessTokenSecret);

1.6 That's it, see examples to learn more! 😄

Using the API with another User:

1. Go to the [Twitter Apps Page] (https://apps.twitter.com/)

1.1 Create an application

1.2 Once you have created the application, go to the "Keys and Access Tokens" page

1.3 You now have Consumer Key and Consumer Secret.

1.4 Authenticate:

URLBasedOAuth oauthURL = new URLBasedOAuth(consumerKey, consumerSecret);

String URL = oauthURL.getAuthorizationUrl(); // URL to the page that the user must go to grant the access.
String pin = ""; // Enter the PIN received after the user grants access.

BlackBird blackBird = oauthURL.authenticate(pin);

1.5 That's it, see examples to learn more! 😄

Pull requests:

If you are interested in helping, create a fork and feel free to create a pull request!

Thanks:

- Twitter4j

- ScribeJava

- Twitter =)