So I've finished my first website in drupal and I thought it would be a nice little addon just to put a block with my Twitter feed in it.
5 hours of smacking my head against a wall later...
I just cannot do it. At first I just thought I could use the aggregator and Views to get the feed and put it in a block. That didn't work.
Then I got the Twitter module and tried to use that. That didn't work.
After sifting through these forums I found apparently to make the Twitter module work you need to register the application on twitters website, get a key and download OAuth as well. I did that BUT I could not activate the OAuth Module as I didn't have some of the other modules it is dependent on and I cannot find them anywhere. So that didn't work.
So I looked at another module called 'SimpleTweet' which said it was a much simpler way to get just a single Twitter feed on your site (as that's all I want). That didn't work.
What started out as a "wouldn't it be neat if I did that" has turned in to an absolutely nightmare but I refuse to be beaten by this!
If anybody could give me a rock solid method for getting the feed on the site, I would REALLY appreciate it.
BC,
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"that didn't work" doesn't really tell us anything. In any case, the core aggregator module is the simplest way to do this-- you don't even need views (aggregator creates blocks automatically). And it works with twitter feeds, I do it all the time.
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Okay, well with the aggregator I've created a new feed, put in the URL of the RSS feed from the Twitter website and I've got nothing. Last update is 'never' and when I update manually I'm told:
'The feed from My Twitter seems to be broken, because of error "400 Bad Request"'
There are so few options I can't see how it's something I haven't done properly?
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I've tried another random news feed and it works find with the aggregator, it's just Twitter giving me the error... how frustrating.
To add to the Twitter confusion
I feel your pain... I have two sites up, dev.siteName.com and siteName.com. I implemented the drupal site on dev.siteName.com, added a couple aggregator feeds, all worked well, and still works well, one of them being a Twitter feed. Now, migrate site to live server, waste endless hours trying to get feeds to work again. Only partial success. One feed works sproadically, the Twitter feed not at all anymore though it initially worked a few times. But the exact same feed works fine on the dev site on my vps server. On the host, Netfirms, no go at all anymore for the twitter feed and sporadically for the google news feed.
I can have both sites up, click 'update feed' on one, presto, there they are, on the live site, all I ever get is
The feed from Twitter seems to be broken, due to "400 Bad Request".. Very frustrating... Especially since at first I thought, well, obviously I have somehow managed to screw up this rather simple task. So spent hours redoing, rebuilding it, deleting feeds and feed nodes, and starting again... same result... then I check in with the host, Netfirms, thinking something in the shared hosting environment is causing it, they are not interested in this problem and blame me or Drupal. And here in the Drupal forums or Aggregator module support site, there isn't much support for this problem, and I believe that is because the problem is sporadic and depends on hosting configurations. Maybe we need to start listing hosting companies where this problem occurs?? Anyway, my solo thread on this issue is here: http://drupal.org/node/1038662Tweeter is working
Hi!
Do not despair.
I tried it on a fresh new installation as well as updated an existing instillation.
Follow the instructions here - http://drupal.org/node/404470#comment-3415614
Make sure you have Views enabled and permissions set.
Please note that OAuth does not need anything further. What is the requirement it is showing on your screen? You must use OAuth 6.x-2.02
At ../admin/settings/oauth please select HMAC-SHA1
Enable appropriate block from Blocks