API deprecation problem

[tommeagher]

So I sadly noticed that http://andymboyle.info/ipsum/ is no longer functioning.

I'm guessing this is because it relies on the deprecated v1 API. Twitter now requires you use Oauth to access the API v 1.1. That is problematic for purely client-side JS, which it appears Twitter discourages you from attempting https://dev.twitter.com/docs/twitter-libraries.

Have you thought about how to handle this? Is there interest in creating a back-end in say, Python, to grab the tweets data from the API to feed to the generator?

[ryanpitts]

Yep, the Twitter API changes totally screwed that feature over. I've had to implement Python versions for other "real" projects, and although it's kind of a pain to have to generate an app and collect the tokens, it's not THAT bad. So far I've resisted running anything server side on BoyleCamp though. I'm torn.