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amw asked · Jul 07, 2016 at 01:17 AM

Access Secret Key

I've looked all around for this, but can't find an answer. I've successfully linked Alexa to Twitter using Oauth. I can see in the json that the accessKey is being returned, but I also need the access Secret Key to make a call to Twitter's api. But that is not being returned. Can you help on this? Thanks.

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Answer 1 · 2016-07-07T17:54:31Z

NickG@Amazon answered · Jul 07, 2016 at 05:54 PM

I know twitter is a bit unique in that it still uses OAuth1.0, when Alexa and most other services use 2.0, which is not compatible in all ways. We do have a blog post on integrating account linking with Twitter, it would probably be a good read for this: https://developer.amazon.com/public/community/post/Tx2LK4MTIM3KAKC/Big-Nerd-Ranch-Series-Developing-Alexa-Skills-Locally-with-Node-js-Account-Linki.

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amw · Jul 07, 2016 at 06:18 PM

Thanks Nick, I read that article and they have this function (see below) that gets the accessToken but they imply that this token has a comma in it and the second part of the split was the secret Key, but when using the service simulator, the accessToken does not have a comma to split on. Maybe I'm missing something.

var accessToken = request.sessionDetails.accessToken;	

this.accessToken = accessToken.split(',');
access_token_secret: this.accessToken[1]

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NickG@Amazon ♦♦ amw · Jul 12, 2016 at 07:05 PM

Interesting. I don't remember seeing that in the code before, but I probably just glossed over it. I'm still not exactly sure why Twitter still is using such a strange implementation compared to everyone else, but I still get the feeling that is related. I'd be curious if that sample still works properly, because if not it is likely Twitter changed something.

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