Twitter Libraries

Updated on Thu, 2011-08-18 12:59

A list of Twitter & OAuth libraries. Feel free to send us a tweet @twitterapi if you think we're missing a good one. Note there's also an index of OAuth libraries provided by the OAuth site.

ActionScript/Flash
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
.NET
Objective-C / Cocoa
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

ActionScript/Flash

Tweetr by Sandro Duccesschi – an AS3 Twitter API library

C++

kQOAuth by Johan Paul – a Qt based OAuth Library
libOAuth by Robin Gareus – a collection of POSIX-C functions implementing OAuth
QTweetLib by Toni Jovanoski – a Qt based Twitter API library
Twitcurl by Mahesh – a Twitter API library

Clojure

twitter-api by @AdamJWynne – an async IO Twitter library.
Clojure-Twitter & Clj-OAuth by Matt Revele – Twitter API & OAuth libraries

Erlang

Erlang-OAuth by Tim Fletcher – an OAuth implementation

Java

Scribe by Pablo Fernandez – an OAuth library
Twitter4J by Yusuke Yamamoto – a Twitter API library (Java platform > v1.4.2, Android and GAE ready)
Twitter API ME by ernandesmjr – a Twitter API library (xAuth only)

JavaScript

Be cautious when using JavaScript with OAuth. Don't expose your keys.

jsOAuth by @bytespider – Javascript-based OAuth library.
SpazCore by Ed Finkler – Libraries for creating client apps in HTML/JS runtimes. Includes a Twitter library.

.NET

DotNetOpenAuth by Andrew Arnott – an OpenID, OAuth and InfoCard library
Hammock by Daniel Crena – an HTTP API client supporting OAuth authentication.
LINQ to Twitter by Joe Mayo – a LINQ provider for the Twitter API
OAuth-Dot-Net by Chris – an OAuth library for clients and providers
TweetSharp by Daniel Crenna & Jason Diller – a Twitter API library built with Hammock
Twitterizer by DigitallyBorn – a Twitter API library (requires .NET > 3.5)
TwitterVB by Duane Roelands – a VB.NET Twitter API library

Objective-C / Cocoa

MGTwitterEngine by Matt Gemmell – a Twitter API library
MPOAuth by Karl Adam – OAuth Cocoa component
ShareKit by Nate Weiner – General purpose content sharing library

Perl

Net::Twitter by Marc Mims – Perl interface to Twitter.

PHP

Oauth-php by Corollarium Technologies – an OAuth library for clients and providers
Services_Twitter (PEAR) by Joe Stump, David Jean Louis and Bill Shupp – a Twitter API library
TmhOAuth by Matt Harris – an OAuth library (supports file uploading)
TwitterOAuth by Abraham Williams – a Twitter API library
Twitter async by Jaisen Mathai – a wrapper for Twitter OAuth API (provides asynchronous calls)

Python

Tweepy by @applepie – a Twitter API library
Python Oauth2 by Brian Rosner – an OAuth library
Python Twitter by DeWitt Clinton – a Python wrapper for the Twitter API (cf also Oauth Python Twitter2)
Twitty Twister by Dustin Sallings – a twisted client for Twitter API library
Twython by Ryan McGrath – a Python wrapper for the Twitter API

Ruby

Grackle by Hayes Davis – a lightweight Ruby wrapper for Twitter REST and Search APIs
Twitter by John Nunemaker – a Ruby wrapper for Twitter REST and Search APIs
Twitter4R – a community-supported Ruby wrapper for Twitter REST.
OAuth-Ruby – an OAuth gem for clients and providers
Twitter_oauth by Richard Taylor – an OAuth library for Twitter

Scala

DataBinder Dispatch – an HTTP service library with OAuth

Inclusion in the Twitter Libraries is not an endorsement or recommendation of those organizations by Twitter. In addition, such inclusion is not intended to imply, directly or indirectly, that those organizations endorse or have any affiliation with Twitter.