Better instructions :)

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Kai Hendry
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# Getting a Bearer Token # Getting a Bearer Token
When you clone and attempt to run this project you will notice that you are missing a `secrets.php` When you clone and attempt to run this project you will notice that you are
file, this file contains one setting `$bearer`. To missing a `secret.php` file, this file contains one setting `$bearer_token`.
[create a bearer token](https://dev.twitter.com/docs/auth/application-only-auth): To [create a bearer
token](https://dev.twitter.com/docs/auth/application-only-auth):
1. [Create a new Twitter app](https://dev.twitter.com/apps/new)
1. Under OAuth settings, make a note of the **Consumer key** and **Consumer secret**
1. Now retrieve the bearer token by building a request with curl:
curl -X POST --verbose "https://api.twitter.com/oauth2/token" -d "grant_type=client_credentials" -u consumerKey:consumerSecret
The response should end like:
{"access_token":"SECRETEXAMPLESTRING","token_type":"bearer"}
Save that SECRETEXAMPLESTRING to secret.php:
<?php
$bearer_token = 'SECRETEXAMPLESTRING';
?>
1. [Create a new Twitter app.](https://dev.twitter.com/apps/new)
1. Base64 encode your key and secret separated by a colon, eg: key:secret => a2V5OnNlY3JldA==
1. Add the result to the Authorization header:
<pre>
wget --post-data=grant_type=client_credentials \
--header='Authorization: Basic **BASE64HERE**' \
--header='Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8' \
https://api.twitter.com/oauth2/token
</pre>