Manual REST API Authentication

Question

Basically I want to use Twitter user search method (REST API), this is: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/w/page/24142947/Twitter-REST-API-Method:-users-lookup

but only for one request, therefore more or less manually.

When the API supported basic authentication, I could just plug in my username / password and collect information about how people are tweeting for a given subject / search (regarding how many followers they have, location, etc. - mainly for the purpose of achieving / profit). I would just query the XML, format it, and run it in an excel file for playback.

Since Twitter no longer supports basic authentication with this method, is there any other way that I can manually request this information, or do I really need to configure oAuth?

Is there any other option that is easier?

Answer 1

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OAuthTokens tokens = new OAuthTokens();
tokens.ConsumerKey = "YourConsumerKey";
tokens.ConsumerSecret = "YourConsumerSecret";
tokens.AccessToken = "YourAccessToken";
tokens.AccessTokenSecret = "YourAccessSecret";

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  new LookupUsersOptions { 
    ScreenNames={"arcain","dotnetdevbuzz"}, IncludeEntities=true 
  }
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Answer 2

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