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Easy Twitter API OAuth 2 Access

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

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"}%

Then use that access token for direct API access:

curl -i -H "Authorization: Bearer <oauth2_token>" https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name\=<screen_name>

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