Twitter error code 215: Bad Authentication Data

Question

I want to create a web application which will allow users to input a Twitter Page URL or Twitter name, and I will return some page information/statistics of that page.

All the data I retrieve will be public, hence I do not need require any user authentication.

I am trying to execute the following query,

https://api.twitter.com/1.1/users/show.json?screen_name=twitterapi

which should return some type of information according to the Twitter Reference https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/users/show.

However when I execute the URL in my browser, I get the following error:

{"errors":[{"code":215,"message":"Bad Authentication data."}]}

Could anyone provide any explanation or alternative?

Solution

Twitter does not allow gathering of information without OAuth:

Twitter API error 215

Comments

[Ilyas karim]

So It will work with Hybridauth right?