How to use Luis.ai Auth Settings - oauth

Can anyone provide a URL or tutorial to the help with setting up the Auth Settings tab in Luis.ai?  I am building a tool that allows anyone without coding experience to create a Chat Bot exclusively based on Luis.ai and it's Cognitive Services API.  I could ask users to provide their app id and subscription id; but I would rather have an Oauth login so they wouldn't have to share those keys with my service. 
I asked Microsoft through there support over a week ago, and no response. I am just trying to understand if Oauth configuration is possible and how?   Any insight would be much appreciated.

Spoke with Microsoft and currently the ability to Share the service without divulging the subscription key is not available; however if you visit this Microsoft URL and vote for the feature, they will consider it.
https://cognitive.uservoice.com/forums/551524-luis/suggestions/15365835-sharing-luis-applications
It is currently under review for implementation.

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How to authenticate using the installed Twitter app

If the user is logged-in with the native Twitter app installed, I want my app to open the Twitter app to request authorization.
I already implemented the flow to get the oauth_token in order to start the login process through Twitter's api. Only, the current API Documentation do not mention anything about how to use the native iOS app in the process. It only sends back a url for the user to log in.
let url = URL(string: "https://api.twitter.com/oauth/authorize?oauth_token=\(result.oauthToken)")!
DispatchQueue.main.async {
UIApplication.shared.open(url)
}
On getting the requested oauth_token, I get this link. Opening the link will display a Webview to login. Not the native Twitter iOS app.
I tried to use a deeplink to manually launch the Twitter app, but I couldn't found any resources on how to setup the link properly.
So far I have tried things like:
twitterauth://authorize?consumer_key=[KEY]&consumer_secret=[SECRET]&oauth_callback=swifter-[KEY]
or
twitterauth://authorize?oauth_token=\(result.oauthToken)
without any success...
As mentioned in another post, Clubhouse has implemented exactly this flow. So it is possible. The question is how ? 😅
This flow seems to have not been officially supported since the retirement of TwitterKit on May 1, 2018. Any applications that still offer this functionality to their end users likely have some sort of partnership with Twitter to allow for this which is otherwise undocumented publicly.
The reasoning for this was detailed sparsely in a related Twitter Developer Forums thread:
Unfortunately at this time we have had to make some incremental adjustments that are not so smooth for everyone; especially as you’ve found, for mobile app developers. We’re in the middle of a transition to a new API platform (via Twitter Developer Labs) and there will be some changes as we go along - we are asking for your feedback to help us, and if you check the ideas, authentication and authorization is something we’ve heard a lot about.
I cannot tell you today exactly when we’ll get to an enhanced solution, but this is something we are actively working on.
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The official guidance is to use the traditional WebView method until Twitter officially re-releases this capability:
I don’t believe that this is possible any longer, so I would encourage you to use the full OAuth flow. I apologise that this may not be what your users prefer, but this is the documented way to gain authorisation (we do not document or support URL schemes for the native iOS app).
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We do not support or document any means of users signing in to Twitter outside of the OAuth flow; any use of undocumented features is subject to change without notice.
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As linked above Twitter appears to be soliciting feedback on this via their UserVoice page, should you feel so inclined to suggest the re-implementation of such a feature.

Swift 2 OAuth2 LinkedIn connection

I'm gonna make an native iOS app with Swift 2 and Xcode 7. The users should login using LinkedIn and OAuth 2 but I'm wondering how I should begin to set this up. I don't have many experience with OAuth 2.
Is there a good tutorial or a sample app? I saw the Ray Wenderlich post but that comes with an existing project. I want to build an app with LinkedIn login from scratch.
EDIT
I want to use the LinkedIn login to get the user's connections and send them notifications. I was researching this and I found some pages that said that connections can't be retrieved from the new LinkedIn API, is this true? It is not possible to get someone's connections from LinkedIn in a native iOS applications?
You should start with LinkedIn guide for LinkedIn and OAuth 2 .
But still if you need a sample for Authentication with OAuth 2 here it is .
For your second question related to the connection yes Linked have made changes but the API is still available but for the partners .
If you are an existing LinkedIn partner, these changes will not impact your existing partnership or the associated APIs that your partnership allows you to access.
If you are experiencing issues as a result of the May 12th changes, please reach out to your LinkedIn Business Development representative immediately.
For further details you can see Developer Program Transition Guide.
Check out this repo, I did this swift pre-2.0 but it shows you the basic algorithm. You can do it the with your secret hard coded or fetch it from the server. The key is getting the oath header just right which is a huge pain
https://github.com/GregPrice24/SwiftStream
Check this out: https://github.com/jeyben/IOSLinkedInAPI
I used this repo and successfully implement LinkedIn integration in my App. It is in Objective-C but you can use Cocoapods and import them as Frameworks and use in swift2 with no trouble.
Note: As of the 12´ May 2015 LinkedIn applied restrictions to API usage for all non partners: See: https://developer.linkedin.com/blog/posts/2015/developer-program-changes
So you can only get the basicprofile at the beginning, but you can apply for the partner program to get those extra information such as connections here: https://developer.linkedin.com/partner-programs

How to use Fandango APIs?

I am trying to integrate with Fandango. I registered and created an API key on the portal, but the API key status is showing as "waiting" for two days.
I get an error like
Developer Inactive error.
Fandango's API is now being managed and run by Gracenote. They no longer have a public API, and will not allow applications direct access unless there will be "significant ticket sales". Their affiliate program is being funnelled through CJ Affiliate. More information about the affiliate program can be found here, and more information about Gracenote can be found here. I hope this helps!
Fandango does not currently have a public API. There used to be a forum and somebody had asked about this. This is from memory, but they stated that they currently only offer the API to partners. Registration seems to be disabled now.
In the link, "Check out a summary of what we can help you offer your customers below." also suggests they only work with companies.

Google Drive API for iOS: OAuth2.0 with an application-owned account

I'm creating a simple iPhone app. The basic premise is that the app will display some data (That I provide online) on the application. The data changes over time, so the app has to draw the data from online and display it. I don't have a significant programming background so I don't want to use my own server.
Thus, I thought it would be significantly easier to just put the data into some documents on a Google account and then access them programmatically via the Google Drive API. I could then update the data in my Drive account and it would get updated in the application. The key here is that I am ONLY accessing ONE account that I own MYSELF. The users' accounts are not being accessed. Therefore the goal is to never have to log in manually. It should all happen behind the scenes, aka, it should look like a server, not a google doc.
With this in mind, it doesn't make sense to show the Google Accounts sign-in page to my users as the standard OAuth2.0 tutorial shows here:https://developers.google.com/drive/quickstart-ios#step_1_enable_the_drive_api
I should be able to access my own data by somehow hardcoding in my username, password etc. Google agrees here: https://developers.google.com/drive/service-accounts#use_regular_google_accounts_as_application-owned_accounts
The above link mentions a "refresh token" that I'm supposed to save. However, I have no idea how to build and save that token, or even for that matter, where to find it.
I've gone through both the basic tutorial and the Dr. Edit Tutorial for iOS, but they both assume that the application is accessing USER accounts not application-owned accounts.
I'm not asking for someone to write the code for me (though tidbits are nice), but if you can point me to a step-by-step guide or related sample code that would help me get started that would be awesome. I'll even come back and post the code that I use!
EDIT: Since I realized that the Google Drive API wasn't something I could use for what I am trying to do, I eventually found Parse which is an awesome tool that handles all the server backend for me and is free at the basic level.
Google APIs objective-C client library doesn't support service (application-owned) accounts, because they are supposed to be used by a server-side apps, instead of clients -- you shouldn't be distributing your private key as a part of an app.
If you would like to distribute content from a service account, maybe you should write a server leg to do the authentication and pass clients credentials in a secure way for them to talk to the API on the behalf of the service account. Or, use Web publishing to make documents universally accessible without authorization and authentication if privacy is not a concern.

Retrieve facebook data in backend service

I'm currently working on an app (iOS 6) where the user will be signing in using their facebook account.
In regards to this I have a few questions:
a) Since the app asks the user for permission to access cetain data (like: basic profile info, friend list, access to post to wall etc), I assume that the app based on it's app id will be somehow authenticated to access this information as long as the user doesn't restrict access through their facebook account.
b) will it be possible for example via a service application to authenticate with the same app id as the mobile app, and hence be able to collect data from the facebook users who authenticated with the app?
The purpose of my question is, that I would like do some analysis on the users using the iphone app, but I don't want the app to first download the information from facebook, and then pass it on to my service for analysis.
If the above is possible, could anyone please guide me in the direction of what it is that I need to do? Perhaps links to tutorials that describes this setup, og simply tell me the right facebook terminology that I'm looking for to achive this.
Thanks in advance!
It's a bit late and you may have already picked a service. I have been using Parse.com
(tutorial site). They're very good. They have SDKs and sample code for many platforms a RESTful service for others.
They have recently been acquired by FaceBook, and already have strong links to Facebook's SDK.

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