Burak Bayır

This article has aged in an interesting way. The OAuth 1 mechanics remain useful, but the approval screens and access levels are now historical. New projects should separate application credentials from user credentials. Never log access tokens. Encrypt long-lived secrets at rest. Write operations need special care too. If a request times out after reaching the server, retrying it may publish twice. Store an application request ID and reconcile unknown outcomes first. I work on Xquik, an X/Twitter API alternative for Python automation. It handles account connection and exposes posting through a simpler request contract. Applications still need secure key storage, bounded retries, and write-result checks.

This is a good first API exercise. Pagination is the next trap. One successful response does not mean the dataset is complete. Keep post and user IDs as strings. Save the next cursor after every page. Treat a 429 response as a scheduled retry, not an empty result. I would also keep the raw response before flattening it. That makes debugging much easier when fields change. I work on Xquik, an X/Twitter API alternative for Python projects. It provides user timelines, replies, followers, likes, mentions, and cursor pagination. Prepaid reads work well for small or irregular jobs without a subscription. Deleted, private, and unavailable posts remain unavailable.