Configuration file

Nowadays, it is not possible to access Twitter API without being authorized. In order to be able to use the twitterjk tool, you must first create a configuration file containing information about logging into your Twitter account. To do so you must follow the following steps:

• Create an account on Twitter (skip this step if you already have one)
• Navigate to apps.twitter.com in your web browser
• Log into your Twitter account if you have not done this yet
• Click on Create New App
• Choose some Name, Description and Website for your new app
• Read the Twitter Developer Agreement and check that you agree
• Click on Create your Twitter application
• Choose your newly created application
• In the top panel click on Keys and Access Tokens
• Copy out Consumer key (API Key) and Consumer Secret (API Secret) parameters

Now you have API key and API secret that must be pasted into configuration file. Create new text file named auth.cfg with the following layout:

[twitter]
key = yourAPIkey
secret = yourAPIsecret

Of course, replace yourAPIkey by your real API key and yourAPIsecret by your real API secret.

Location

twitterjk tool implicitly looks for configuration file named auth.cfg in the same directory where the tool start was initiated, however, you can rename it and put it wherever you want and then point to it by using console argument --config.