Twitter oneboxes now require Twitter credentials

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In the past, Discourse obtained the information necessary for rendering Twitter oneboxes by either crawling the webpage or using the Twitter API. Due to the recent changes made by Twitter, we can no longer get all the information we need from crawling webpages and had to drop support for the first method. Twitter oneboxes will continue to work as long as you are using the Twitter API.

How do Twitter oneboxes look?

Here is an example onebox of https://twitter.com/discourse/status/1557506046087680000

Does this change affect you?

This change affects only sites that are not using Twitter API for fetching oneboxes (Twitter preview). If your site is hosted by CDCK on a Business plan or higher, or it has twitter consumer key and twitter consumer secret site settings set, your site is not affected.

How can I fix this?

Follow the guide for generating Twitter API keys and set up Discourse to use them, but skip changing the “enable twitter logins” site setting:

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Thanks. Bookmarked. :smiley::+1:

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2 posts were split to a new topic: Twitter oneboxes are no longer working on my install

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Just to note, due to the API usage cap in place this is now applicable to our Business and Enterprise plans, and the OP has been edited to reflect this. For those on Basic or Standard hosting who still want to support this feature you will need to follow these instructions to obtain an API key:

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