API Methods: auth.getRequestToken

Description

See the OAuth Specification section Obtaining an Unauthorized Request Token

Returns a new OAuth Request Token.

This method, unlike most methods, may take its parameters in any of the three ways defined in the OAuth Specificatoin.

This method does not take the 'format' parameter, and only returns values in the format defined by the OAuth Specification.

Required parameters

  • oauth_consumer_key:
    The Consumer Key.
  • oauth_signature_method:
    The signature method the Consumer used to sign the request.
  • oauth_signature:
    The signature as defined in Signing Requests (Signing Requests).
  • oauth_timestamp:
    As defined in Nonce and Timestamp (Nonce and Timestamp).
  • oauth_nonce:
    As defined in Nonce and Timestamp (Nonce and Timestamp).

Optional parameters

  • oauth_version:
    If present, value MUST be 1.0

Global parameters

  • None - The auth methods are special and do not support the global parameters at all.

Example response

oauth_token=hh5s93j4hdidpola&oauth_token_secret=hdhd0244k9j7ao03