I'm following https://github.com/seancook/TWReverseAuthExample for implementing reverse SSO in Twitter to my app.
As a result I get oauth_token, oauth_token_secret, user_id and screen_name. Is there any way to get also full user name (name) of user?
Thanks in advance.
For some reason I can't find it in the ACAccount properties for fullName key. It used to be stored there, but right after reverse auth it is empty. What I'm missing?
The thing was that fullName key exists if user not only added the twitter account, but looked up for details. Otherwise this field is empty. Might help someone.
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I am developing a MVC project where I am trying to get the user id or user name from the facebook by using the email id provided by the user,
actually i want to fetch the photo of the user, which can be done using
graph.facebook.com/user_id|user_name/picture
where as i have only have the user email id.
with a little surfing on net i found that user name or user id can be fetched by using
graph.facebook.com/search?q=emailAddress&type=user&access_token=ACCESSTOKEN
but i was not able to get the access_token.
Also referred
developer facebook page
and also this
Any help or direction to work will help indeed.
Basically i understand that i need a access token to get the details.
So how do i do this in my MVC application
As you can read in the Search API docs, you can only search for Users by name, but not by E-Mail. It may have been possible in the past, but it is definitely not possible anymore.
Also, for searching by name, you need to use a User Access Token. You only get one by authorizing a User: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login
Trying to access user profile from Yahoo using Oauth system and for that i am taking help of Scribe-Java API
its working fine except one issue whcih i am sure not related to the API i am using
In my yahoo profile i have following settings
Yahoo! Email --->amy_yahoo_id#yahoo.com
Email--->other_id#gmail.com Primary - Change
So what i am getting back is other_id#gmail.com which means i am not able to get correct information of the logged in user.Once i am able to get guid i am sending the request to following URL
http://social.yahooapis.com/v1/user/guid/profile?format=json
any way i can get the yahoo mail id to which user is associated in place of other id even if that is set as primary or along with any other email id all i want is to get the yahoo mail id of the user by which he/she logged in to the system.
Is there any specific reason you must get the yahoo account's email?
I also facing the same problem as you earlier.
After think over, primary email means to be the contactable email for the user.
So may be that's why yahoo make it that way.
Of course it will be good if they can provide one more email which is account's email.
But if you just want to have unique identifier, we can use the guid.
So may be you can check again, does your requirement must have the account's email?
or you just need an email where user set primary because they preferred to be contactable by that email?
Now I will just make use of the primary email return from Yahoo for my OAuth
Once authenticated to Twitter via OAuth I did not see a good call to get your username.
How is this supposed to work? I'd like to pull back things like Twitter username, firstname, lastname, etc... basic profile stuff. Should the OAuth handshake give me my username?
Try this:
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1/get/account/verify_credentials
It'll show you all information (you'ld normally get of any other user) of the OAuth-authenticated-account =)!
First, Twitter includes the screen_name parameter in the access token response. Second, you can call http://api.twitter.com/1/account/verify_credentials.json to get the full profile which will also include the name (JSON key 'name'). Twitter does not provide email addresses.
Have you tried any of these libraries? I've tried just about all of the php ones and all that I tried had examples on how to get the user data.
Is there a way to get the screenname of the current logged in user?
The show requires id or user_id or screen_name, but I don't have any of those.
I could only think about a workaround, that would be to make a request to twitter.com and get the contents of the <span id="me_name">
have you tried account/verify_credentials
It's not possible without oAuth.
The only workaround is the one mentioned on the question.
I'm currently creating a web app using Google's oAuth. I was wondering how I can uniquely identify an authenticated user so I don't accidentally add duplicates.
Doesn't Google give you other unique params like user name or user ID?
For example, Twitter and Facebook, give you user name and a unique url that identifies user's profile picture. If you save that params on server-side you can identify user next time that he comes on your site.
The best way to do this would be to use OpenID with the oAuth extension (aka hybrid).
I am currently using OAuth exclusively and I am requesting the https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo#email scope as described on http://sites.google.com/site/oauthgoog/Home/emaildisplayscope to get the email address of the authenticated user. I am using the email address to uniquely identify the user. This should be good enough for now.
Edited:
According to a recent Google developer comment (https://groups.google.com/group/oauth2-dev/browse_thread/thread/cf5c137f872f9932), they are currently working on this problem, but for anything production ready, you should use OpenID authentication.
You should save somewhere the user_id you have for your users in your site, along with the corresponding access_token and access_token_secret.
Then you can query that table (or wherever you save that information) with the user_id and obtain the proper tokens
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