I talked about Twitter's inclusion of rate limits inline with documentation the other day, which is something I added as a new building block, that API providers can consider when crafting their own strategy. Another building block I found while spending time in the Twitter ecosystem, was an oAuth signature generator inline within the documentation.
While browsing the Twitter documentation, right before you get to the example request, you get a little dropdown that lets you select from one of your own applications, and generate an oAuth signature without leaving the page.
I am seeing oAuth signature generators emerge in a number of API platforms, but this is the first inline version I’m seeing. I’ve added this to my tentative list of oAuth and security building blocks I recommend, but will give some time before I add. I like to see more than one provider do something before I put it in there, but sometimes when it is just Twitter, that can be enough.
