twitterflutterdart-2

Flutter (Dart 2) accessing twitter GET api


I am having trouble calling on the Twitter api in my Flutter app. I have used the twitter sign in library to get my token and secret token, and I have my consumer and consumer secret. But I am unable to form an https request correctly. I have tried using an Oauth2 client as well as a straight request and neither has worked.

I found this repo with a dart 1 Twitter and Oauth implementation, but I have been unable to figure out how to convert this to Dart 2. All help is greatly appreciated.

Edit: Here is most recent code:

final response = await http.get(new Uri.https(
        "api.twitter.com", "/1.1/statuses/home_timeline.json", {
      "count": "200",
      "tweet_mode": "extended",
      "exclude_replies": "false"
    }), headers: {
      "Authorization": 'Bearer ${twitter.token}', //twitter.token is the token recieved from Twitter sign in process
      "Content-Type": "application/json"
    });

returns "errors":[{"code":89,"message":"Invalid or expired token."}] I know that the token is valid

Edit 2:

Future<List<Tweet>> getTimeline() async {
    print("Getting timeline");
    var query = https.get(
        "https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/home_timeline.json?count=2&tweet_mode=extended&exclude_replies=false",
    headers: {
      "Authorization":
          'oauth_consumer_key="$_consumerKey", oauth_token="${twitter.token}"',
      "Content-Type": "application/json"
    }).timeout(Duration(seconds: 15));

    print("Before await");
    final response = await query;
    print("code: ${response.statusCode}");
    ...
}

After more debugging there was a possible null exception with twitter.token. After fixing that, I am still getting bad authorization data. I will keep trying to add more info to the header and see if something will help it.

Edit 3:

Here is my generate signature method:

static String generateSignature(String method, String base, List<String> sortedItems) {
    String sig = '$method&${Uri.encodeComponent(base)}&';
    String param = '';

    for (int i = 0; i < sortedItems.length; i++) {
      if (i == 0)
        param = sortedItems[i];
      else
        param += '&${sortedItems[i]}';
    }

    sig += Uri.encodeComponent(param);
    String key = '${Uri.encodeComponent(_secretKey)}&${Uri.encodeComponent(twitter.secret)}';
    var digest = Hmac(sha1, utf8.encode(key)).convert(utf8.encode(sig));
    print("base: ${digest.bytes}");
    print("sig: ${base64.encode(digest.bytes)}");
    return base64.encode(digest.bytes);
  }

Here is the timeline method:

Future<List<Tweet>> getTimeline() async {
    print("Getting timeline");
    Future<http.Response> query;

    try {
      String base = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/home_timeline.json';
      String count = 'count=2';
      String mode = 'tweet_mode=extended';
      String replies = 'exclude_replies=false';
      String oauthConsumer = 'oauth_consumer_key="$_consumerKey"';
      String oauthToken = 'oauth_token="${twitter.token}"';
      String oauthNonce = 'oauth_nonce="${randomAlphaNumeric(20)}"';
      String oauthVersion = 'oauth_version="1.0"';
      String oauthTime =
      'oauth_timestamp="${DateTime.now().millisecondsSinceEpoch}"';
      String oauthMethod = 'oauth_signature_method="HMAC-SHA1"';
      String oauthSig = 'oauth_signature="${generateSignature("GET", base, [
    count,
    replies,
    oauthConsumer,
    oauthNonce,
    oauthTime,
    oauthToken,
    oauthVersion,
    mode
  ])}"';

  query = http.get(
      new Uri.https("api.twitter.com", "/1.1/statuses/home_timeline.json", {
        "count": "2",
        "tweet_mode": "extended",
        "exclude_replies": "false"
      }),
      headers: {
        "Authorization": '$oauthConsumer, $oauthToken, $oauthVersion, $oauthTime, $oauthNonce, $oauthMethod, $oauthSig',
        "Content-Type": "application/json"
      }).timeout(Duration(seconds: 15));
} catch (e) {
  print(e);
}

Thanks!


Solution

  • Here is the code that ended up working:

    Generate string method:

    static String generateSignature(
          String method, String base, List<String> sortedItems) {
        String param = '';
    
        for (int i = 0; i < sortedItems.length; i++) {
          if (i == 0)
            param = sortedItems[i];
          else
            param += '&${sortedItems[i]}';
        }
    
        String sig =
            '$method&${Uri.encodeComponent(base)}&${Uri.encodeComponent(param)}';
        String key =
            '${Uri.encodeComponent(_secretKey)}&${Uri.encodeComponent(twitter.secret)}';
        var digest = Hmac(sha1, utf8.encode(key)).convert(utf8.encode(sig));
        return base64.encode(digest.bytes);
      }
    

    Convenience method for twitter get calls:

    Future<http.Response> _twitterGet(
          String base, List<List<String>> params) async {
        if (twitter == null) await _startSession();
    
        String oauthConsumer =
            'oauth_consumer_key="${Uri.encodeComponent(_consumerKey)}"';
        String oauthToken = 'oauth_token="${Uri.encodeComponent(twitter.token)}"';
        String oauthNonce =
            'oauth_nonce="${Uri.encodeComponent(randomAlphaNumeric(42))}"';
        String oauthVersion = 'oauth_version="${Uri.encodeComponent("1.0")}"';
        String oauthTime =
            'oauth_timestamp="${(DateTime.now().millisecondsSinceEpoch / 1000).toString()}"';
        String oauthMethod =
            'oauth_signature_method="${Uri.encodeComponent("HMAC-SHA1")}"';
        var oauthList = [
          oauthConsumer.replaceAll('"', ""),
          oauthNonce.replaceAll('"', ""),
          oauthMethod.replaceAll('"', ""),
          oauthTime.replaceAll('"', ""),
          oauthToken.replaceAll('"', ""),
          oauthVersion.replaceAll('"', "")
        ];
        var paramMap = Map<String, String>();
    
        for (List<String> param in params) {
          oauthList.add(
              '${Uri.encodeComponent(param[0])}=${Uri.encodeComponent(param[1])}');
          paramMap[param[0]] = param[1];
        }
    
        oauthList.sort();
        String oauthSig =
            'oauth_signature="${Uri.encodeComponent(generateSignature("GET", "https://api.twitter.com$base", oauthList))}"';
    
        return await http
            .get(new Uri.https("api.twitter.com", base, paramMap), headers: {
          "Authorization":
              'Oauth $oauthConsumer, $oauthNonce, $oauthSig, $oauthMethod, $oauthTime, $oauthToken, $oauthVersion',
          "Content-Type": "application/json"
        }).timeout(Duration(seconds: 15));
      }
    

    Example call:

    Future<User> getUser(String tag) async {
        String base = '/1.1/users/show.json';
        final response = await _twitterGet(base, [
          ["screen_name", tag],
          ["tweet_mode", "extended"]
        ]);
    
        if (response.statusCode == 200) {
          try {
            return User(json.decode(response.body));
          } catch (e) {
            print(e);
            return null;
          }
        } else {
          print("Error retrieving user");
          print(response.body);
          return null;
        }
      }