Confusion about bearer tokens

[alexpghayes]

I'm trying to understand bearer tokens better by using two tokens that I have for different applications.

I have two tokens, token1 and token2, that are clearly different:

> identical(token1, token2)
[1] FALSE

However, the corresponding bearer tokens are identical. When and why is this the case?

> bearer1 <- bearer_token(token1)
> bearer2 <- bearer_token(token2)
> 
> 
> identical(bearer1, bearer2)
[1] TRUE

[colts183281]

Yea I'm working through the same issue. One thing I know is that if you open different projects you create different bearer_tokens but it would be useful to use different bearer tokens in the same project. I'm trying to work through the code and see if I can figure out what's going on.

[llrs]

The problem might come from how the bearer are stored. They are added to the rtweet:::.state enviroment, so the second bearer token overwrites the first bearer token (if the second gets created at all!) See the internal get_bearer function.