# Twitter node/custom authentication

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/twitter-node-custom-authentication/15851>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [24 September 2019 10:24 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/twitter-node-custom-authentication/15851 "2019-09-24T10:24:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![biz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/848f3c/32.png) [@biz](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/biz)\
**Post date:** [24 September 2019 10:24 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/twitter-node-custom-authentication/15851/1 "2019-09-24T10:24:23Z")

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Hello All.  
I currently have some flows that use the twitter nodes. These are able to listen to specific usernames/hashtags. I am also able to post multimedia and standard tweets.  
This node is great and very easy.  
The problem I have is not inherently with the node but it's limited ability to do things.

I would like to get a list of followers. Looking into the API, this would appear to be fairly easy. See reference  
[https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/accounts-and-users/follow-search-get-users/api-reference/get-followers-list](https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/accounts-and-users/follow-search-get-users/api-reference/get-followers-list)  
I can easily create an http GET via available nodes.  
What I am unclear about is how to do the authentication on this. Looking through the API authentication it needs it in a header. I don't know/don't understand how to combine the two. i can do one or the other but not both :frowning ☹  
Does anybody have any suggestions on how to combine authentication with a HTTP GET of "[https://api.twitter.com/1.1/followers/list.json](https://api.twitter.com/1.1/followers/list.json)"

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**Author:** ![ukmoose](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/ukmoose/32/13_2.png) [@ukmoose](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ukmoose)\
**Post date:** [24 September 2019 10:40 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/twitter-node-custom-authentication/15851/2 "2019-09-24T10:40:10Z")

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Twitter uses OAUTH authentication there are OAUTH nodes which you should be able to use to authenticate.

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**Author:** ![biz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/848f3c/32.png) [@biz](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/biz)\
**Post date:** [25 September 2019 13:39 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/twitter-node-custom-authentication/15851/3 "2019-09-25T13:39:23Z")

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I did not know that! I will look into that and get back to you. TYVM