ckailash/twitter-app-only-auth

Twitter Application Only Auth API for Laravel, which is documented here: https://dev.twitter.com/oauth/application-only. With Application-only authentication you don’t have the context of an authenticated user and this means that any request to API for endpoints that require user context, such as posting tweets, will not work. However, it comes with a higher API rate limit

Twitter Application-only authentication

Twitter Application-only API for Laravel 5., _(*1)

Installation

Add ckailash/twitter-app-only-auth to composer.json., _(*2)

"ckailash/twitter-app-only-auth": "~1.0"

Run composer update to get the latest version, _(*3)

Or run, _(*4)

composer require ckailash/twitter-app-only-auth

Now open up /config/app.php and add the service provider to your providers array., _(*5)

'providers' => [
    'Ckailash\TwitterAppOnlyAuth\TwitterAppOnlyAuthServiceProvider',
]

Configuration

Run composer dump-autoload to reload the autoload files, _(*6)

Run php artisan twitter-app-only-auth:generate-bearer <twitter-consumer-key> <twitter-consumer-key-secret> to get the bearer token required to interact with the twitter API as an app., _(*7)

Run php artisan vendor:publish and modify the config file with your own information., _(*8)

/config/twitter-app-only-auth-config.php

Add the following to your .env file and you'll be on your way:, _(*9)

T_CONSUMER_KEY= 
T_CONSUMER_SECRET= 
T_BEARER_TOKEN=