I've tried a couple of ways (http://emmense.com/php-twitter/ and http://www.webmaster-source.com/2009/04/05/post-to-twitter-from-a-php-script/) to post updates to my twitter account but I am getting the response:
Basic authentication is not supported
I had a look at the twitter website and they said something about the new OAuth for authentication. Is this why my code isn't working?
Does anyone know of some PHP code that works?
This is correct. They recently adopted OAuth as their sole login platform for 3rd party apps as a security precaution.
Check out their developer area for examples:
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/w/page/22554657/OAuth-Examples
Basic auth is deprecated now. Check out this library https://github.com/abraham/twitteroauth for using OAuth in your application
It took me several hours to create this PHP script but it is working. Just make sure that your hosting company supports cURL. If you don't need the geo features you can cut them out.
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I'm using thephpleague oauth client library and everything works fine except for Google authentication. It seems I have to enable my domain somewhere to be able to use Google apps.
https://support.google.com/a/answer/33419?hl=en
This was not helpful indeed as I don't understand what I have to do. Am I obligated to pay for having a working OAuth connection with Google? I don't have a company, I don't need the apps, cloud or any other thing then a working API.
EDIT: to be clear I already wrote my libraries for OAuth and it's all working, it's Google that needs me to do something on domain level.
You don't have to pay. First of all you need to create a project in the Google Developers Console. Then get your credentials. I don't know which API you are going to access. Have a look at this.
https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/OAuth2?csw=1
Additional - This site was very helpful for using the Google Calendar API
http://www.daimto.com/accessing-google-calendar-with-php-oauth2/#Conclusion
Hope you find what you are looking for.
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 12ยด 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
I am trying to use FitBit api in iOS application. I have a fitbit device and I am trying to create an iOS app that connects with the FitBit api and gets my data back. I am trying to implement OAuth2.0. I already have the client ID but I have been stuck. I am not sure how to proceed with this. I have read the documentation on how OAuth works and how fibit works with OAuth2.0 . My problem is I don't know how to open the fibit api authenication by the user, and how to get the access token. How do I proceed after getting the access token.
I am a noob to this, so I would appreciate if somebody can guide me how to go with that. If someone can guide me to similar projects it will be awesome.
Thanks
Implementing OAuth isn't a simple task. I started with Christian Hansen's OAuth Example and modified it to work for my project (his is for Google, but it can be changed to work with FitBit or anything else).
You can also check out one of the many OAuth Client wrappers on GitHub. Those two should get you close enough that you can start asking more specific questions.
I am trying to load some twitter feeds of a user on Swift iOS App. On twitter Documentation, I found the API is:
https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=twitterapi&count=2
which returns:
{"errors":[{"message":"Bad Authentication data","code":215}]}
Older Rest API did not require. Newer API requires authentication.
Requires authentication? Yes
How do I get that working? Any tutorials would be even sweeter!
Before marking this question duplicate please bear in mind that I have done a good search and none of the answers answered my questions because a lot them point to older Rest APIs.
Take a look at Twitter Fabric http://dev.twitter.com/fabric which is a free SDK (compatible with Swift) that provides easy authentication via either guest or user login. Sample app written in Swift at https://github.com/twitterdev/cannonball-ios
If you would prefer to use raw REST calls against the API, follow the OAuth details in our dev documentation https://dev.twitter.com/oauth
In settings of your simulator go to accounts -> Twitter, and login there in actual twitter account. As you try to login, it doesn't know what user to use, so you need to specify it.
Can we build applications on top of the twitter user base?
Is it just another open id or something more?
I noticed when using twitpic and some MUD type game 14mafia.com that it uses my twitter login (it tweets on your behalf).
If they are using my login/password that's pretty crazy, I mean what kind of security is that?
Anyhow, just want a developers who has expereince to tell me if we can re-use their membership like openid?
Can we build applications on top of
the twitter user base?
The Twitter API is described at http://apiwiki.twitter.com/
Is it just another open id or
something more?
Twitter is neither an OpenID consumer nor provider.
I noticed when using twitpic and some
MUD type game 14mafia.com that it uses
my twitter login (it tweets on your
behalf).
If they are using my login/password
that's pretty crazy, I mean what kind
of security is that?
Awful security. Don't give out your password to third party sites. Some just use the password anti-pattern, others will steal your credentials for purposes you don't want.
Twitter supports OAuth today. If a site wants to do things with your Twitter profile, it should use that.
Anyhow, just want a developers who has
expereince to tell me if we can re-use
their membership like openid?
No, you can't.
Twitter offers both OAuth and simple username/password authentication in its API. Originally they only had the basic authentication API so many early apps were built using it. Later, they added the OAuth support, but since it was easier to use the basic authentication, many twitter clients and apps still use it.
You can tell which one an application is using, because if they are using the simple authentication they will ask for your password. You have to trust them with it in that case. You're right that it's poor security.
I imagine they are using the Twitter API.