i want to schedule my post on specific time frame on twitter. my web app authenticated properly and i have user access token and user access secret and i have a permission of ads-api. but when i post my call on ads api here’s link (POST https://ads-api.twitter.com/9/accounts/myaccountid/scheduled_tweets?as_user_id=myuserid&scheduled_at=2018-01-01) its give me 401 unauthorized error.my oauth headers are fine including oauth_nonce , oauth_signature,oauth_signature_method,oauth_token etc. can any one help me regarding this issue…thanks in advance
public async Task<ActionResult<OutputWarapper>> SchuduleTweetUsingTwitterAPI
([FromForm] string PostTweetmessage, [FromForm] string AccessToken, [FromForm] string AccessTokenSecret, [FromForm] string userid,[FromForm] string schedat)
{
try
{
string twitterURL = "https://ads-api.twitter.com/9/accounts/18ce55fhpx3/scheduled_tweets";
string oauth_consumer_key = TweetConsumerKey;
string oauth_consumer_secret = TweetConsumerSecret;
// set the oauth version and signature method
string oauth_version = "1.0";
string oauth_signature_method = "HMAC-SHA1";
// create unique request details
string oauth_nonce = Convert.ToBase64String(new ASCIIEncoding().GetBytes(DateTime.Now.Ticks.ToString()));
System.TimeSpan timeSpan = (DateTime.UtcNow - new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, DateTimeKind.Utc));
string oauth_timestamp = Convert.ToInt64(timeSpan.TotalSeconds).ToString();
// create oauth signature
string baseFormat = "oauth_consumer_key={0}&oauth_nonce={1}&oauth_signature_method={2}" + "&oauth_timestamp={3}&oauth_token={4}&oauth_version={5}&as_user_id={6}&text={7}&scheduled_at={8}";
string baseString = string.Format(
baseFormat,
oauth_consumer_key,
oauth_nonce,
oauth_signature_method,
oauth_timestamp,
AccessToken,
oauth_version,
Uri.EscapeDataString(userid),
Uri.EscapeDataString(PostTweetmessage),
Uri.EscapeDataString(schedat)
);
string oauth_signature = null;
using (HMACSHA1 hasher = new HMACSHA1(ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes(Uri.EscapeDataString(oauth_consumer_secret) + "&" + Uri.EscapeDataString(AccessTokenSecret))))
{
oauth_signature = Convert.ToBase64String(hasher.ComputeHash(ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes("POST&" + Uri.EscapeDataString(twitterURL) + "&" + Uri.EscapeDataString(baseString))));
}
// create the request header
string authorizationFormat = "OAuth oauth_consumer_key=\"{0}\", oauth_nonce=\"{1}\", " + "oauth_signature=\"{2}\", oauth_signature_method=\"{3}\", " + "oauth_timestamp=\"{4}\", oauth_token=\"{5}\", " + "oauth_version=\"{6}\"";
string authorizationHeader = string.Format(
authorizationFormat,
Uri.EscapeDataString(oauth_consumer_key),
Uri.EscapeDataString(oauth_nonce),
Uri.EscapeDataString(oauth_signature),
Uri.EscapeDataString(oauth_signature_method),
Uri.EscapeDataString(oauth_timestamp),
Uri.EscapeDataString(AccessToken),
Uri.EscapeDataString(oauth_version)
);
HttpWebRequest objHttpWebRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(twitterURL);
objHttpWebRequest.Headers.Add("Authorization", authorizationHeader);
objHttpWebRequest.Method = "POST";
objHttpWebRequest.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
using (Stream objStream = objHttpWebRequest.GetRequestStream())
{
byte[] content = ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes( "as_user_id=" + Uri.EscapeDataString(userid) + "&" + "text=" + Uri.EscapeDataString(PostTweetmessage) + "&" + "scheduled_at=" + Uri.EscapeDataString(schedat));
objStream.Write(content, 0, content.Length);
}
var responseResult = "";
try
{
//success posting
WebResponse objWebResponse = objHttpWebRequest.GetResponse();
StreamReader objStreamReader = new StreamReader(objWebResponse.GetResponseStream());
responseResult = objStreamReader.ReadToEnd().ToString();
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
responseResult = "Twitter Post Error: " + ex.Message.ToString() + ", authHeader: " + authorizationHeader;
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
ex.Message.ToString();
}
return Ok("success");
}