Twitter Search using Qlik Rest Connector

[kbiesemans]

I was trying to load Tweets about a certain subject through the Qlik Rest Connector. Therefor I followed the steps explained in this example http://help.qlik.com/Connectors/en-US/connectors/#../Subsystems/REST_connector_help/Content/1.0/Crea...

When I test the connection it always gives me tho following error message : HTTP protocol error 400 (Bad Request): {"errors":[{"code":215, "message":""Bad Authentication data."}]}.

This are my settings:

Force basic authentication.

URL : https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json

Method : GET

Query Paramters:

q, qlik

Query Headers:

Authorization, OAuth oauth_consumer_key="...",oauth_signature_method="HMAC-SHA1",oauth_timestamp="1449654560",oauth_nonce="...",oauth_version="1.0",oauth_token="...",oauth_signature="..."

Host, api.twitter.com

X-Target-URI, https://api.twitter.com/

Does someone know what I can try to solve this issue?

[reddy-s]

Hi Koen,

I faced an issue like this, but solved it by adding the query parameters to the URL itself.

In your case make use of this following URL and remove the query parameters.

https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json?q=%23Qlik

The above URL = searching twitter with #Qlik

Hope this helps!

- Sangram Reddy

[mikkeltaylor]

Hi Koen,  Did you manage to resolve this?

I'm also trying to get the Twitter connection to work and struggling....