package nzcovidbot import ( "log" "github.com/dghubble/go-twitter/twitter" "github.com/dghubble/oauth1" ) type TwitterCredentials struct { ConsumerKey string ConsumerSecret string AccessToken string AccessTokenSecret string } var TwitterCreds TwitterCredentials // getClient is a helper function that will return a twitter client // that we can subsequently use to send tweets, or to stream new tweets // this will take in a pointer to a Credential struct which will contain // everything needed to authenticate and return a pointer to a twitter Client // or an error func getClient(creds *TwitterCredentials) (*twitter.Client, error) { // Pass in your consumer key (API Key) and your Consumer Secret (API Secret) config := oauth1.NewConfig(creds.ConsumerKey, creds.ConsumerSecret) // Pass in your Access Token and your Access Token Secret token := oauth1.NewToken(creds.AccessToken, creds.AccessTokenSecret) httpClient := config.Client(oauth1.NoContext, token) client := twitter.NewClient(httpClient) // Verify Credentials verifyParams := &twitter.AccountVerifyParams{ SkipStatus: twitter.Bool(true), IncludeEmail: twitter.Bool(true), } // we can retrieve the user and verify if the credentials // we have used successfully allow us to log in! user, _, err := client.Accounts.VerifyCredentials(verifyParams) if err != nil { return nil, err } log.Printf("User's ACCOUNT:\n%+v\n", user) return client, nil }