How do I detect if a roblox username is available using API's? I searched the roblox api documentation (https://api.roblox.com/docs) but couldn't find anything, even searched external sources.
Just to expand a little bit on Kylaaa's answer, this is the exact endpoint you can use to check if a username is valid:
https://auth.roblox.com/v1/usernames/validate?request.username=[UsernameHere]
Keep in mind that you cannot directly use this endpoint from a Roblox game, you will have to set up a proxy server that acts as a middleman between the game server and this endpoint:
More on setting up your own web server: https://github.com/sentanos/ProxyService
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I've been attempting to utilize the Yahoo API to connect to fantasy sports data. I don't have a web URL to connect to when I attempt to create an app, and everything I've read has mentioned that I should select "Installed Application" to avoid using a URL.
This option is not available to me.
Yahoo Developer Screenshot
On the official documentation this is what I see here
Yahoo Developer Documentation
Not sure if it makes a difference but I'm based out of Canada.
Thanks!
It's hard to find the documentation for it, but what you want is called oob (out of bounds, out of band). To get this to work, the steps are a little different (there is no such thing as installed application from what I'm aware of):
Add oob as one of the redirect uris
Make your normal request to the auth/login uri
This will give you a new page that provides you with a token. At this point, you need to manually use this token when you request the /auth/token uri
This last step just replaces the redirect to https://your-redirect.com/token and you will end up in the same position as before.
Now, you still shouldn't put your client_secret in your application if you plan on releasing it, but if you're using it internally or letting others provide their own secret then you should be good.
If you find the original documentation with the PHP source code, you can follow this flow.
I use Nextcloud as a normal user to store and share files.
I decided to use it as a backend for a web application I am developing so that I can store the files in Nextcloud while the frontend is done by me.
I spent some hours on the API docs
https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/developer_manual/client_apis/WebDAV/index.html
and, with some disappointment, unless I have not made a mistake, I realized that the only API that can be used from outside Nextcloud is the WebDav API.
This is a minimalistic API that allows doing basic things such as uploading a file by passing the full path like with this GET statement (authenticated by basic auth passing username and password in the headers:
GET https://nextcloud.example.com/remote.php/dav/files/username/FolderOne/SubFolderTwo/HelloWorld.txt
This will download the file located in /FolderOne/SubFolderTwo/HelloWorld.txt
with a PUT request, it is possible to overwrite the file by passing the file content in the raw body request
This is very effective but minimalistic.
I was expecting to have a full REST API to access more properties and perform complex operations.
Could you please tell me if I missed some important information?
There is the OCS API but it works only from inside Nextcloud.
Thanks.
A full REST API is avaiable - https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/22/developer_manual/client_apis/OCS/ocs-api-overview.html
Create a Share - https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/developer_manual/client_apis/OCS/ocs-share-api.html
The OwnCloud documentation also offers more examples
https://doc.owncloud.com/server/10.8/developer_manual/core/apis/ocs-share-api.html
You can register an App id and use that to login or passthru a username and password in the authentication header.
I've got a program which creates JIRA issues using the jira-rest-api supported by Atlassian.
What I'd like to do is to create a link within the issue to an external URL (actually a presigned Amazon S3 link).
At the REST level this should be doable with a POST request to the Jira api to create a remoteLink. However I cannot find methods in the client APIs or a RemoteLink dto in the Java library.
Nor does the Java library appear to give any access to lower level REST handlers.
Now, I could set up my own REST handling code, going right back to the endpoint URL and authentication, but that's messy, when most of the code the code should already be there. Also I can't clearly see which json fields are required, and which not can be left to the API.
Am I overlooking something obvious in the documentation? I can't even seem to locate source for the client implementation, only the interface layer.
My current code is using version 3.0.6 of the api, but I've just checked v4 (which seems to be the latest on offer) and there's still no RemoteLink support.
Have you tried with these?
Server: https://docs.atlassian.com/software/jira/docs/api/REST/7.6.1/?_ga=2.26380925.1321063199.1523351418-1788196903.1491202928#api/2/issue-deleteRemoteIssueLinkById
Cloud: https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rest/#api-api-2-issue-issueIdOrKey-remotelink-linkId-delete
https://new-console.ng.bluemix.net/docs/services/apiconnect/apic_tutorial.html#apic_tutorial_01
Follow previous link to do create loopback project named ibmsvt and do test locally, we can post and get.
then publish this api as running api app on bluemix and we will get api target url and tls file.
type url and tls in api designer invoke, and publish api product again.
check api connect service and we can find that published api product has been published, configure developer portal, and invite developers
login developer portal and register one app
subscribe app to api product and run post command.
We will see that we only get can't post error information...
Please see attachment info for error info and api file.
From the screen capture provided, it looks like you're displaying the logs for the loopback application deployed on bluemix. It also looks like the POST request from APIConnect hit the Bluemix application as well. However, I'm unable to see the exact message of the error. What error did you get when you execute the POST from APIConnect? I suspect the POST did not include the $(request.path), what did you change the invoke url to be ? Can provide the x-ibm-configuration section in your yaml file? It will be located in your /definitions.
Thanks and best regards,
I am just have the exact problem, and struggled for days on redoing the tutorial several times, but still met with the same problem until found the upper reply, and gave me a hint.
In the tutorial, it says like the following:
Update the following fields with the values you copied previously:
Invoke URL: Insert the API target URL. You must specify the secure protocol HTTPS. For example:
apiconnect-ca3283b0-525c-488d-993b-3ab72fca78d0.youremail-dev.apic.mybluemix.net
TLS Profile: Insert the API invoke tls-profile.
For example:
client:Loopback-client
The origininal URL is $(runtime-url)$(request.path)$(request.search).
And the correct URL after updating is like following:
https://apiconnect-ca3283b0-525c-488d-993b-3ab72fca78d0.youremail-dev.apic.mybluemix.net$(request.path)
no slash before $(request.path), and $(request.search) should be deleted.
I also checked a tutorial video, it also do like this, but the screen for this step is passed away very quickly, you will not pay attention to this detail normally.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qku71JLv8vA&list=PLFa8jnU0KqE2eW5E449ziaurv8obSbcou&index=3&cm_mc_uid=24774488665514672571374&cm_mc_sid_50200000=1468400063
I'm looking to write a philips hue service that needs to allow users to register their hue bridge with my service. This service would change the color of bulbs based on an event. I'm aware that I can use IFTTT but in this scenario, I'd like to not use IFTTT and I'd like to register my website with philips hue's apps.
Any idea how I can do this? Your help is very much appreciated. Thanks!
EDIT: Not sure why I was down voted but I definitely did do my research. I looked on philips hue's developer website and couldn't find anything that was explicit on their APIs. I also looked through the iOS SDK and didn't see any methods that would trigger the pairing routine for remote devices. So far, the only example I have of this working (outside of Philips' products is the IFTTT service, which allows for an entry to be added into the 'My Apps' section).
TLDR: I wrote an API: https://github.com/jarvisinc/PhilipsHueRemoteAPI
I answered this question on my technical blog (http://blog.paulshi.me/technical/2013/11/27/Philips-Hue-Remote-API-Explained.html), which I will post here:
The question actually comes as two part:
Authentication
Remote Control
Authentication
I haven't figure out a reliable way to do authentication automatically. The following procedures needs to be automated: The idea is to fake as official iOS APP which has the ability to control remotely when enabled. We will need to get BRIDGEID and ACCESSTOKEN to pass the authentication step for remote control.
Find your BRIDGEID from https://www.meethue.com/api/nupnp. (or in My bridge page on the meethue website and by clicking on "Show me more")
Get ACCESSTOKEN
www.meethue.com/en-US/api/gettoken?devicename=iPhone+5&appid=hueapp&deviceid=**BRIDGEID**
Right click on "BACK TO THE APP" and write down ACCESSTOKEN inside the link it redirect to
phhueapp://sdk/login/**ACCESSTOKEN**
Basically it is a hack to get your access token. You fake your app as the official iOS Hue App, and ask for access token that way. I am not sure there is an easier way out there, if you do know one, please do comment below.
You can potentially automate it by doing simulated log-in session and grab the the ACCESSTOKEN by scraping the page content. But I consider it highly unreliable because any change to the official page will likely break it.
I wrote this script that allows the automation of getting ACCESSTOKEN as of today, but I don't guarantee it will work tomorrow for the reason I explained above :P
Currently, this OAUTH process only works with official apps. There might be a slight chance that they will open it to other 3rd party apps.
Remote Control
Once authentication is done, this part can be done automatically. There are 2 known private endpoints for sending control command and getting all the status related to the hue bridge.
Sending Command Endpoint:
POST https://www.meethue.com/api/sendmessage
Getting Status Endpoint:
GET https://www.meethue.com/api/getbridge
Sending Command Endpoint
URL: https://www.meethue.com/api/sendmessage
Method: POST
URL Parameters:
token=**ACCESSTOKEN** (which you obtained earlier)
Request header
content-type=application/x-www-form-urlencoded
body
clipmessage={ bridgeId: "**BRIDGEID**", clipCommand: { url: "/api/0/**APIENDPOINT**", method: "**METHOD**", body: **JSONCOMMAND** } }
BRIDGEID is the same one you obtained earlier
APIENDPOINT the same as official API /api/<username>/*** by removing /api/<usename>/ part
METHOD PUT/GET/POST/DELETE the same 4 method as official API. Despite GET really doesn't work since all response from the Sending Command Endpoint is 200 explained in the following part, while DELETE is not tested
JSONCOMMAND The actual command body for example {"on":true}
Getting Status Endpoint
URL: https://www.meethue.com/api/getbridge
Method: GET
URL Parameters:
token=**ACCESSTOKEN**
bridgeid=**BRIDGEID**
Request header
content-type=application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Limitations
Current limitation is you cannot immediately know from the response whether your control command succeeded like the official API. All the response you get from calling the Sending Command Endpoint is pretty much always <200> if you are doing it correctly. But you can always pull all the status related to the Hue bridge from the Getting Status Endpoint.
Remote Control API
I wrote Philips HUE Remote API to specifically solve the remote control problem.
Enjoy :)
Paper
For full documentation please refer to this excellent paper:
Hacking Lightbulbs: Security Evaluation of the Philips Hue Personal Wireless Lighting System by Nitesh Dhanjani
I did some investigation by following the steps of #paul-jianer-shi however the access token are not shown in the generated HTML.
I think the Hue Portal has been updated and removed the way it potentially shows the access token.
I wrote a blog post about doing Remote Hue operations by reusing the access token of another application, like IFTTT. The main change is how to get your hands on that access token. The token in shown in the 'My Apps' section of the Hue Portal. Check the (De-activate) link. It contains the access token.
Next step will be to let Hue Portal trust my own app.
Philips plan to make the remote API available to 3rd parties(it's already used by IFTTT and meethue.com).
There is currently a form on the developer website to request an early access(must login):
http://www.developers.meethue.com/content/remote-api