bad authentication data error on twitter API

Question

I used to do the following to get user timelines:

https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=twitterapi&count=2

Now that I'm switching to Twitter API 1.1, I thought all I would have to do is this:

https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=twitterapi&count=2

but I'm getting the bad authentication data error from Twitter. I had no authentication setup previously with twitter, does API version 1.1 require authentication?

I guess I can use the Twitter gem, looks like it makes things pretty simple. But I just want to know whether I can use the above URL like I used to!

Answer 1

Take a read of this. Your initial assumption is correct, authentication is now required for all endpoints in v1.1. So to answer your question your request is correct you just need to pass an OAuth token or use application-only authentication.