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7 years 11 months ago #58083 by ExmoorEditor
I am relatively new to JFBConnect and really pleased with being able to post to Twitter and Facebook from our website, and also being able to surface our Twitter account on our website.
But we would really like to be able to surface timelines from some other Twitter accounts that we do not own and to which we have only public read access. When I asked this a few months back when using the trial version I was advised that this was too difficult - but I have now found another free Joomla extension that does precisely this function!! I am able to specify any Twitter account(s) and show it on our website, as long as I first set up a Twitter app and obtain both API Keys and Access Tokens.
I would much prefer to be able to do this within JFBConnect so am I missing something here or is it a function that the developers do not consider it worth including as it doesn't fit with the more comprehensive read-write architecture provided by JFBConnect?
Tim
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7 years 11 months ago #58087 by alzander
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Tim,
Let us look into this more. I developed the Twitter Channel interface over a year ago. At the time, it wasn't possible to use the API (easily) to fetch public Twitter streams. There were various roadblocks in both their API and terms of service to do so.

I think it would be a great feature to have though, so this is something I'll look into more. I definitely wasn't trying to shoot you down when you asked, just didn't think it was possible. We just released JFBConnect v7. A lot of our efforts are on that release right now to bug-squash and start promotions, but I"ve added this to our to-do list to investigate for an upcoming release. We have the code for reading from a stream, so reading from another *shouldn't* be that difficult, but I know it was before. Let's hope that's changed. If so, we'll definitely try to get this an upcoming (hopefully the next) release.

Thanks,
Alex
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7 years 11 months ago #58106 by ExmoorEditor
Thank you very much for your rapid and informative reply. I was just a bit puzzled that, after your previous reply, it didn't take me long to find another extension that offered this function, and the only additional step that I had to do was to acquire Access Tokens in addition to the Consumer Keys - but this was all part of the Twitter App setup process.
I will continue with my temporary fix but very much look forward to this becoming available in a forthcoming release of JFBConnect. Keep up the great work!
Tim
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