Getting Nonce That Works

[ghost]

Hi all,

When I am trying to run a request using my Postman App, I keep getting an authentication error that I know has to do with the Nonce. In the tutorial, Rory fixes this problem by dropping a new 32 character Nonce out of thin air. When I try to do the same (or at least repeat the same four characters eight times in a row), this does not fix the issue.

[alne4294]

I'm having the same issue and have replayed the tutorial multiple times to ensure that I followed the correct steps.

This is the only Twitter Community forum that I could find on the topic and the nonce I used was composed of 32 alpha-numeric characters like it sounds like it should be.

Has anyone had any luck with this?

Thanks,
Alexia

[doubleshow]

Make sure you've created a Twitter account.
If you have made your best effort and still unable to resolve this authentication issue, you can skip this and make this up during the class on Monday without losing any point. We will set aside some time to troubleshoot the authentication issue together.

To prove that you've made the best effort, you must report an issue about this, like what cwitty1919 and alne4294 did.

[alne4294]

Okay, I'll make a separate issue. I have a Twitter account, so that's not the culprit. Thanks.

Alexia

[indiesquidge]

I had this same issue. What worked for me was creating an alpha-numeric string (like specified above, I like to either copy and paste the nonce that is already there 5 times and then add two characters, or use ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ123456). Then you have to first refresh your request before sending it again. This was the solution for me, since my problem kept coming up when I would simply send another request after fixing the nonce. Try refreshing and then sending. Let me know if this works.

[alne4294]

Thanks Austin!! That fixed the problem. When I refreshed before, I though all my data disappeared, but it turns out it just changed the view.

I'm glad that it's working... I'll close the issue I opened.

[wannabeCitizen]

I highly recommend going this route for the Twitter API: https://dev.twitter.com/oauth/application-only

I'm not sure what the tutorial said, but I'm unsure why you're using nonce for an application-only access of the API on only your user.

[ianks]

Try this command: date | md5

That takes the current datetime and hashes it with md5 (which is 32 chars).