Post twitter status with url using twitter REST API 1.1

Question

I am trying to post a status from website to a Twitter account and succeeded using https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/update.json API and with the help of this link.

When I try to add another parameter URL like &url= http://t.co/ReadMore&expended_url=https://www.google.com included with the status to post on twitter it gives error:

The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized.

Can some one guide me how to add URL parameters with status? I searched a lot but not succeeded.

dealing with the actual Twitter API could be tricky use a library such as tweetinvi which would make your life much easier — Coder1409, Apr 07 '15 at 12:43
@Coder1409: i know but this is an actual way to do work .. Thanks for the comment. — Asad kamal, Apr 07 '15 at 12:54

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 07 '15 at 15:55

If you look at the API documentation for that endpoint, you'll see that it does not accept arbitrary parameters. The only parameters allowed are status, in_reply_to_status_id, possibly_sensitive, lat, long, place_id, display_coordinates, trim_user, media_ids. If you want to add a url as part of the tweet, you'll need to encode it and include it in the "status" parameter.

Post twitter status with url using twitter REST API 1.1

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