I want to use http://api.twitter.com/1/blocks/create.json?screen_name=xxxxxxx (Twitter API) to block particular friends or followers from my account with the use of Twitter & Account Framework in iOS 5,
So what should i do to solve this issue, because i just want to use Twitter account , don't want to use OAuth.
It generate an error like : HTTP/1.1 401 API is secure. Needs security Credentials
The Twitter API requires OAuth authentication. However, if you're happy with targeting iOS 5 and up you can use the in-built Twitter framework to perform the OAuth calculations on your behalf, which will save you a lot of time. Take a look at the documentation for TWRequest:
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/Twitter/Reference/TwitterFrameworkReference/_index.html
Actually you need to put parameters of post requests in the body. This is described in the OAuth tool description under Request query:
This tool is available on the right of every rest API documentation page like this if you are logged in
You can use apigee console for twitter to test it but you will get the same error unless you include the screen_name parameter in the body
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I'm building a Rails API with a proper front-end to go along with it (probably React). I'm currently implementing the API and haven't written a single line of front-end. I'm trying to implement OAuth with Facebook as explained in #a14m's answer for this post.
However the problem is that my API would require an authentication code so that it can exchange it for an access token with Facebook. As far as I understand, the code is obtained via a login dialog on the front-end. Now I want to test whether or not my API is getting a valid access token from Facebook in exchange for the code. But to get the code I have to open a dialog on the "front-end" which I have not implemented yet.
Any way I could open the dialog for Facebook login and get the code without writing the front-end? I probably think Postman would help but I don't know how. Also if there is a way to obtain the token without triggering the dialog would also get my job done. So I just want a way to access the code without a front-end.
You can definitely use Postman for this. I write Rails APIs often and I always use Postman to hit the endpoints without having a front-end. All you have to do is find out what you need to send to the Facebook API and set it up as a form body on Postman.
When trying to create app requests through facbeook http graph api I'm getting the error "(#2) Failed to create any app request".
As described in the documentation (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/user/apprequests/) I'm using the URL https://graph.facebook.com/{userid}/apprequests setting in post the access token, a title and a message. I've tried different combinations of parameters just to check if I needed anything else, but just if I remove access token and/or title I get different errors.
In addition to that, if I use my own userid, instead of other userid (obviously a friend) that I want to send the request to, there's no error at all, but no request is created.
I don't think it may be related with permissions because both users (source and destination of the request) are admin, developer or tester of the app.
Thank you
Just in case anyone needs it, the problem is that user apprequests can only be created if using any facebook ui methods. That's why in this thread Apprequest of Android Facebook sdk 3.0 comment 1 advices to use webdialog instead of sending the request in code.
More on this topic, I've been researching and I found out that I started with my app really long ago (using API lower than 2.3) so I didn't need to set the category as "game" to be able to send apprequests. I updated its category and after multiple tests I've found the following scenarios:
Javascript API works correctly to send requests in my app
Graph API fails to send requests if using user auth token getting the same error as before
Graph API is able to send requests if using app auth token (from app_id + app_secret)
As far as I've read, there's no limitation in using either kind of auth tokens for apprequest calls.
In addition, my app will be running in web, desktop and mobile. The scenario in which I'm using graph API directly is desktop for obvious reasons (there's other APIs tor the other platforms). As recommended in the FB api documentation, the app secret should not be included in binary code deployed to users, so I would need to use the user auth token.
Any help would be apreciated
Thanks
For this task I have already created my own facebook application to get the API key and secret key. Can anyone explain the next steps that should be done to
1) Read from facebook API
2) Write my own database
by using web services
Thanks in advance!
A high level answer:
I'm assuming you want to use the authorization code OAuth flow (this means you want Facebook users to give you access to their profiles so you can grab data from there). If so, you need to bring up a web server and an application that will run your users through the Facebook OAuth flow. In case you just want to access Facebook with your own credentials you don't have to have a web server, simply use the client credentials OAuth flow.
So, Once you have a valid access token, you simply make calls to Facebook API using this token. using Facebook Graph API is simply a matter of calling URLs and getting the data as JSON.
You can test-drive the API here.
BTW, according to Facebook's platform policy, you're only allowed to store Facebook data for caching purposes.
Let me know if this helps.
We want to update our user profiles with information from LinkedIn (should the user choose to import this information). However, we want to this this authorization using Oauth2, but accordoing to LinkedIn's website only Ouath 1.0a is supported for their REST API: https://developer.linkedin.com/apis
Any way around this?
As LinkedIn is providing OAuth 2 access using their JavaScript API you could dive into their Javascript code and somehow get to the file, that has the OAuth 2 endpoints in it:
l.api = "https://api.linkedin.com/v1";
l.login = "https://www.linkedin.com/uas/connect/user-signin";
l.authorize = "https://www.linkedin.com/uas/oauth2/authorize?immediate=true";
[...]
l.logout = "https://www.linkedin.com/uas/connect/logout?oauth_token={OAUTH_TOKEN}&api_key={API_KEY}&callback={CALLBACK}";
l.userspace_renew = "https://www.linkedin.com/uas/js/authuserspace?v=0.0.2000-RC1.20001-1400&api_key={API_KEY}";
For requesting resources, probably the endpoints in their REST API documentation could be used.
However, note that it is probably forbidden by their terms of use to use these endpoints without their JS API and could result in your client being sanctionized. You could contact them and ask for permission.
I've created a Play 2.x client in Scala and Java which supports OAuth/CAS/OpenID/HTTP authentication and user profile retrieval : https://github.com/leleuj/play-pac4j.
For OAuth support, it's based on Scribe and supports LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, DropBox, Github, Windows live, WordPress...
hello everyone i am new bie in iphone development i want to connect to linkedin from my native iphone application i am currently having no idea how to connect to it please guide me how could i do that
From http://www.zhangkf.com/2010/06/linkedin-developer-network-oauth-authentication/:
Yes you can get connected with Linedin withyour Native Application by
following simple steps:
You get an API key from LinkedIn. This is also called a Consumer Key in OAuth terminology.
You build a feature into your site that leverages the user's LinkedIn network.
Your user clicks on your UI to request to use that feature.
You make a call to LinkedIn to ask to use our authentication. This is called getting a Request Token.
LinkedIn replies with an OAuth Token indicating that you can use the authentication system.
You send your user to a LinkedIn URL. That URL includes the OAuth Token you got and a few other parameters such as a URL for LinkedIn to
return the user to after granting access.
The user grants access to your application by signing into that page.
Upon successful signon, LinkedIn will return the user to your site.
You will then make a call to LinkedIn to get an Access Token.
LinkedIn replies with an Access Token for the user. You use that Access Token for any API calls to LinkedIn to identify the user on
whose behalf you are making the call.
Or
Download the Code from here,you could get it.Just Provide your API Key and Secrete Key
http://github.com/ResultsDirect/LinkedIn-iPhone
Or see this for details:
http://developer.linkedin.com/docs/DOC-1008
This sample is 100% complete and working, just add your app key.
Built with the latest XCode 4.01.
Uses a UIWebView so you have the option of customizing the browser UI.
Uses JSON instead of XML, which is the preferred best practice for most cases
OAuth is heavily documented so you know what's happening
Tested with iPhone 4, iPad 1, and the simulator on iOS 4.x.
http://lee.hdgreetings.com/2011/03/iphone-oauth.html