I'd like to read and write data to a published Google spreadsheet via the GDATA API, but I don't want my app to be authenticated with full Spreadsheet authorization (giving it full access to that user's docs).
It seems that it is not possible according to the official documentation.
The documentation does not indicate if it is possible to restrict the scope of authentication OAuth2 : http(s)://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/.
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While reading instagram basic display api documentation I get the sense that we cannot use this api for authentication. As they write under the limitation as:
Authentication — Instagram Basic Display is not an authentication
solution. Data returned by the API cannot be used to authenticate your
app users or log them into your app. If you need an authentication
solution we recommend using Facebook Login instead.
But looking at their API reference I get they provide oauth tokens and authentication flow /scopes.
Their getting started guide also list down steps to setup app. Anyone please explain what I am missing there ? I am looking for social login solution using instagram, thanks.
I am new to smart sheet. I need to use smart sheet API inside an Node Application to get sheets which are being uploaded by a user. I have gone through the documentation of smart sheet API. Document says to call API first need to get auth code which requires client_id. After getting auth code, need to get token.
I am not sure if I need to contact that user to get client Id or need to create new account. What should be my next step.
Having others use your application to get their data would require you to have them login to your app using their Smartsheet credentials. Then as the requests are made they can be done as that user. This is can be done by implementing the Smartsheet OAuth flow. There is more information on this in the Third-party App Development section of our API docs.
If you are using Node.js you can see a simple implementation of using our SDK on Github here.
As for the OAuth flow there is also an example of implementing that in Node.js on the Smartsheet Samples Github.
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.
I am developing an app which requires data from social networks..I wanted to know how to fetch details of a person from his fid in Facebook.I want to fetch only the data are marked public.From google search i got to know that we can use rest API or java API to get the data but it requires API key or access token which are generated only after logging in to the Facebook. please explain me if there is any other way to fetch the details.
From google search i got to know that we can use rest API or java API to get the data
Rest API is deprecated, and such a thing as a “Java API” does not exist – it’s just the Graph API that you’ll mainly use to get information from Facebook, and it’s quite well documented.
but it requires API key or access token which are generated only after logging in to the Facebook.
Of course you will need an app to be able to talk to the Graph API – but it does not require a user to login/“connect” to your app just to read basic (public) profile info. An app access token will be enough for that.
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...