getting twitter username with access token

Question

I've a php application and successfully create a function to save access tokens and secrets in the database. (It's about sending specific content to their profile)

I want to show them which twitter account they linked to my application. How can I get their twitter user with access token?

Thanks for help.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3128323/get-current-users-info-from-twitter-api — brian_d, May 25 '11 at 22:48

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered May 26 '11 at 12:44

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When you get the access token Twitter also returns a screen_name and user_id variables. You can use those instead of making an additional request to GET account/verify_credentials

answered May 26 '11 at 12:44

abraham

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I checked class codes and returned values but I could not get screen name, just id is available. I used users/lookup to get screen name.. $connection->get('users/lookup', array('user_id' => '###')) thanks for your help.. – dvdmn May 30 '11 at 12:31

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 15 '14 at 09:04

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Use this instead:

$credentials = $connection->get('account/verify_credentials')

and then to get username, name, and location-

$name = $credentials->name;

$username = $credentials->screen_name;

$location = $credentials->location;

edited Jan 15 '14 at 09:04

Cris

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answered Jan 15 '14 at 08:43

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getting twitter username with access token

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