Online data mining without client side oauth

I have a little app that mines data on social networks and returns interesting results (e.g. the latest conversations around a certain topic). However, the front end requires that the users开发者_运维问答 connects with the various services first via oauth, before these services' APIs can be scanned.

I would like this process to be automated on the server, so that a person using the app does not need to auth with Twitter, Fb, Linkedin in etc just to get results from those services. Is this possible?

No. This is not possible. The OAuth specification requires a user to first authenticate with the service and then authorize your application to request data on the user's behalf.

For twitter there is a hack: search, search, search! and 'connect' the tweets yourself :-)

This hack works for apps like http://jetwick.com