Developing Java Applications with Spring and Spring Boot

Authentication with Twitter APIs

With our objects ready, we need to create a class to help us handle the Twitter authentication. We will use the Twitter Application Only Auth authentication model. This kind of authentication should be used for backend applications.

The application using this kind of authentication can:

• Pull user timelines
• Access friends and followers of any account
• Access lists and resources
• Search in Tweets
• Retrieve any user information

As we can see, the application is a read-only Twitter API consumer.

We can use the Twitter documentation to understand this kind of authentication in detail. The documentation can be found here: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/basics/authentication/guides/authorizing-a-request.