API Bearer Auth vs Full Twitter Integration

The API Bearer Auth plugin enables authentication for the REST API by using JWT access an refresh tokens. After the user logs in, the access and refresh tokens are returned and can be used for the next requests. Issued tokens can be revoked from within the users admin screen. See below for the endpoints. Note that after activating this plugin, all REST API endpoints will need to be authenticated, unless the endpoint is whitelisted in the api_bearer_auth_unauthenticated_urls filter (see FAQ for how to use this filter). JWT Access tokens can be formatted as JWT tokens. For this to work, you first have to create a secret and add it to the wp-config.php file. If you don’t do this, access tokens will work also, but are just random strings. To create a random secret key, you can do for example: base64_encode(openssl_random_pseudo_bytes(64)); And then add the result to wp-config: define('API_BEARER_JWT_SECRET', 'mysecretkey'); If you have problems, you can verify your JWT tokens at: https://jwt.io/ Revoke tokens This plugin adds a column to the users table in de admin where you can see when a token expires. You can also revoke tokens by selection the “Revoke API tokens” from the bulk actions select box. API endpoints Note that all endpoints expect JSON in the POST body. Login Endpoint: POST /api-bearer-auth/v1/login Request body: Note: client_name is optional. But if you use it, make sure to use it as well for the refresh call! {"username": "my_username", "password": "my_password", "client_name": "my_app"} Response: { "wp_user": { "data": { "ID": 1, "user_login": "your_user_login", // other default WordPress user fields } }, "access_token": "your_access_token", "expires_in": 86400, // number of seconds "refresh_token": "your_refresh_token" } Make sure to save the access and refresh token! Refresh access token Endpoint: POST /api-bearer-auth/v1/tokens/refresh Request body: Note: client_name is optional. But if you did use it for the login call, make sure to use it here as well! {"token": "your_refresh_token", "client_name": "my_app"} Response success: { "access_token": "your_new_access_token", "expires_in": 86400 } Response when sending a wrong refresh token is a 401: { "code": "api_api_bearer_auth_error_invalid_token", "message": "Invalid token.", "data": { "status": 401 } } Do a request After you have the access token, you can make requests to authenticated endpoints with an Authorization header like this: Authorization: Bearer Note that Apache sometimes strips out the Authorization header. If this is the case, make sure to add this to the .htaccess file: RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} ^(.*) # Don't know why, but some need the line below instead of the RewriteRule line # SetEnvIf Authorization .+ HTTP_AUTHORIZATION=$0 RewriteRule ^(.*) - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%1] If you are not logged in or you send an invalid access token, you get a 401 response: { "code": "api_bearer_auth_not_logged_in", "message": "You are not logged in.", "data": { "status": 401 } } Important update Update immediately if you’re using a version below 20200807. Before this version all access tokens were updated when calling the refresh callback. If you are affected by this the fastest solution is to execute this query: update wp_user_tokens set access_token_valid = NOW(); This will invalidate all access tokens. This means that all users need to refresh their access token and will get a new access token and a unique one this time. A big thank to @harchvertelol for reporting this and suggesting the fix as well!

Getting Started With this plugin you will be able to display tweets all around your site with just a few simple steps. You don’t need any programming or technical skills for this. Trust me, it’s really simple 😉 Just choose where do you want to display the tweets. Will they be in a Widget? In a post content? Or in your code? Display tweets in a widget, couldn’t be easier Simple as any other WordPress Widget, just go Appearance>Widgets and choose the most suitable FTI Widget for you, or choose them all! You will be able to set the Number of tweets to display, and the option to hide/show the User profile image and the Tweets images. Tweets in your content, just add a shorcode Use the WordPress Shortcodes to display the tweets on your Posts/Pages and filter them as you wish. Set a Hashtag or a Username and set the values (optional) to customize the Tweets. Just add the Shortcode to your post/page content and that’s all! This shortcode sample will display PearlJam’s Tweets with their profile images and limit them to 5. [fti-list username=”PearlJam” limit=”5″ profile_image=”true”] And here it’s getting Tweets with the hashtag “#Wordpress” including the images content of each and with a medium size. [fti-list hashtag=”Wordpress” images=”true” images_size=”medium”] Shortcode parameters hashtag (Required) – [yourHashtag] Default: none. username (Required) – [aTwitterUserName] Default: none. images (Optional) – [true/false] Default: false. images_size (Optional) – [thumb/small/medium/large] Default: thumb. profile_image (Optional) – [true/false] Default: false. Display Tweets in your code We have a really simple API to get the tweets you want in your code. Customize the parameters and get an Array with the Tweets (objects). These are our functions: get_tweets_by_hashtag($hashtag, $limit) get_tweets_by_user($user_name, $limit) get_user_tweets($user_name, $limit) get_timeline_tweets($user_name) get_user_data($user_name) get_my_data() The $user_name should be the Twitter screen name, the one with @. Eg: PaulMcCartney