: What does your bit.ly username and password become when you login using Twitter? I use a Twitter account to login to bit.ly at the sign in screen. I've also signed up to use their authentication

@Jessie594

Posted in: #Api #Bitly #Twitter

I use a Twitter account to login to bit.ly at the sign in screen.

I've also signed up to use their authentication because I want to use node.js to generate shortened links using the node-bitlyapi module.

The example code asks for a username and password:

var BitlyAPI = require("node-bitlyapi");
var Bitly = new BitlyAPI({
// both of these values have been retrieved by Registering a Bitly OAuth app.
client_id: "",
client_secret: ""
});

var username="" // Added Twitter Username;
var password="" // Added Twitter Password;

Bitly.authenticate(username, password, function(err, access_token) {
// Returns err if there was one, or an access token if here wasn't:

console.log('err: ' + err);
console.log('access_token: ' + access_token);
});


When I run the code above I get the following output which doesn't give me alot to go on since there isn't an error and there isn't an access_token:

Basic MWExMGM0ZWFjZTFiZDg4Y2NiQjAyODE5OWIyOWRmNGUyMzUxZGU1NzowZDc5ODY1NzMwZTk2N2E3N2JiZDZmY2I5YmMyZDI0ZjRiOWZ2ZjAz
err: null
access_token: undefined


This leads me to believe that it isn't authenticating and that I need some other sort of username and password to work with the API.

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