We have created a distribution to make it easy for you to run your own stand-alone instance of the SuperTweet proxy on your own local machine for use by your own local Twitter clients.
This allows you to use applications that have not yet been updated to support OAuth safely and simply, or to use in your own scripts, for example, to post status updates using cURL.
Note: The proxy requires Java (Java 5 or better recommended). To install java, visit: www.java.com.
These instructions are written for Linux or UNIX-type systems - they will also work on Max OS X in a Terminal window. Since the proxy is Java based, it should work on other platforms as well. For Windows, @TheDarkNighty has graciously put together an installer EXE to automtate the entire process. You can download it here.
Follow the instructions below to download, install, and configure the stand-alone SuperTweet proxy manually.
mkdir supertweet-local
cd supertweet-local
tar xzvf $HOME/supertweet-local-dist.tar.gz
sh setup.sh
You can register a new application on the Twitter Application Platform. Pay attention to following four settings:
After registration, you will get a Consumer key and a Consumer secret on a new window.
Edit the $HOME/.supertweet/App.properties file with the Consumer key and Consumer secret
consumer_key = INSERT_CONSUMER_KEY_HERE
consumer_secret = INSERT_CONSUMER_SECRET_HERE
sh run.sh
This will start the proxy running on the local machine, listening on port 8080. Note: Java is required. To install Java, visit: http://www.java.com/.
Open the following page in your browser: http://localhost:8080/setup/access.
You will be prompted for a username and password. The default is admin/admin - you can change this by editing the $HOME/.supertweet/adminusers file and restarting the proxy.
The http://localhost:8080/setup/access page will display a link to Twitter to sign in, along with a form where you enter a PIN and Password.
The link should open in a new window. Compete the sign-in and Twitter will return a PIN code. Enter this code into the form. Also enter the password that you want to use with the proxy (NOT your actual Twitter password - can be anything). This is the password your apps will use with Basic Auth.
Click "Submit" and the proxy should indicate that the credentials have been saved.
That completes the one-time installation and setup. In the future, all you need to do to use the proxy is to use the sh run.sh script.
To use the proxy, simply point your scripts to http://localhost:8080 instead of api.twitter.com. for example:
curl -u user:password -d "status=playing with cURL and the SuperTweet stand-alone proxy" http://localhost:8080/1/statuses/update.xml
or
curl -u user:password http://localhost:8080/1/statuses/home_timeline.xml
The full source to the standalone proxy is available at: http://code.google.com/p/supertweet-twitter-api-oauth-proxy/
The stand-alone proxy is derived from the same code running on the http://supertweet.net site. If you are interested in working on the code, contact the administrator to request update-access to the SVN repo. Fixes and updates to the stand-alone proxy will be pushed into the http://supertweet.net code, as appropriate.