Where can I find "YOUR_APP_USER_TOKEN"?

Hi there! I’m new to this, this is the first time I’m trying to use this library. Can you help me to figure out where I can find “YOUR_APP_USER_TOKEN”?

I have copy-pasted the code from the README (with minor changes):

import { TwitterApi } from 'twitter-api-v2'

// Instanciate with desired auth type (here's Bearer v2 auth)
const twitterClient = new TwitterApi(<YOUR_APP_USER_TOKEN>)

// Play with the built in methods
const user = await roClient.v2.userByUsername('plhery')
console.log('user', user)
const tweet = await twitterClient.v1.tweet('Hello, this is a test.')
console.log(tweet)
// You can upload media easily!
const image = await twitterClient.v1.uploadMedia('./format-your-writing-for-readability.jpg')

But I can’t seem to figure out where to get the user token, the only keys I see in my developer portal are these:

Where can I get the user token? What’s the easiest way to obtain it?

(My goal is to post tweets using this api, not just read data, I don’t know if that matters.)

[alkihis]

Hi,

So, you’re new to Twitter development? 😄 You now have multiple authentication methods on this API.

• OAuth2 Bearer Token (shown on example here), is only for app auth. It means you can only read content, not write anything
• OAuth2 user-context, which are the things related to Client ID and Client Secret, but this has been released to public yesterday and implementation is still a WIP for this lib.
• OAuth 1.0a user-context token (the historical one), that allows you to post content, but you need to implement a three-legged OAuth flow (example described in Authentication documentation). If you don’t want to implement it right away, you can generate the 4-keys couple “API key”, “API secret”, “access token” and “access token secret” for your account in Twitter Developer portal and use it as it follows:

const client = new TwitterApi({ appKey: 'API key', appSecret: 'API secret', accessToken: 'Access token', accessSecret: 'Access token secret' });

Don’t forget to generate them with read and write permissions.

If you want to implement a login flow “a sign in with Twitter flow”, I highly recommend you to read Twitter documentation and library doc about auth.

[lumenwrites]

Thank you! The second question is resolved, just always using authenticate works, that’s exactly what I want (for some reason I initially assumed that you have to first use authorize and only then use authenticate, but when you just use authenticate it prompts the user to authorize the app when they log in for the first time).

I’m still struggling to obtain the user’s email address though.

I’ve tried both:

const user = await client.currentUser();
console.log(user)

and

const { data: user } = await client.v2.get('users/me');
console.log(user)  

And it returns some info about the user, but no email.

I see that the first link you gave me mentions returning the email if “Request email addresses from users” is checked, and I did check it, but I still don’t see the email in the response. I don’t think I’m using this correctly…

Can you help me to figure out how to obtain the email?

Edit:

I have also tried this:

const credentials = await client.v1.get('account/verify_credentials')

But it returns me a bunch of html with an error, says “Nothing to see here, looks like this page doesn’t exist”.

Edit 2:

Doing this:

const credentials = await client.v1.get('account/verify_credentials.json')

doesn’t give me an error, it gives me a response, but there’s still no email in it…

Edit 3: Yissss!!! That did it:

      const credentials = await client.v1.get('account/verify_credentials.json', {
        include_email: "true", 
        include_entities: "true", 
        skip_status: "true" 
      })

Got the email. Case closed =)

Amazing. Thank you so much for this amazing project, and for your help!