I wish to retrieve a Workday worker (aka employee) web profile URL via the Workday API. The use case is that I'm building a chatbot to retrieve user information and I want to be able to deep link to the worker (employee) web profile.
The issue is that I cannot do either of the following:
get a web profile URL from the API
create a web profile URL from data in the API
A web profile URL looks like the following. The userId looks like 1234 right before the .htmld extension as that is the only number that changes between employee profiles.
https://www.myworkday.com/{myCompany}/d/inst/1$715/247${1234}.htmld
A search URL in the webUI returns a slightly different URL but has the same numerical userId at the end, e.g. the 1234 before .htmld here:
https://www.myworkday.com/{myCompany}/d/inst/autocompletesearch/247${1234}.htmld
A worker API call is like the following with a 32 byte hexadecimal workerId like deadbeefdeadbeefdeadbeefdeadbeef. Searching for the API workerId in the web UI returns no results.
https://services1.myworkday.com/ccx/api/api/v1/{myCompany}/workers/{workerId}
The API result does not have the web profile userId, e.g. 1234, any where in it, or a URL that can render a web page.
{
"id":"deadbeefdeadbeefdeadbeefdeadbeef",
"descriptor":"Joe Cool",
"href":"https://services1.myworkday.com/ccx/api/api/v1/{myCompany}/workers/deadbeefdeadbeefdeadbeefdeadbeef",
"supervisoryOrganizationsManaged":"https://services1.myworkday.com/ccx/api/api/v1/{myCompany}/workers/deadbeefdeadbeefdeadbeefdeadbeef/supervisoryOrganizationsManaged",
"yearsOfService":"1",
"primaryWorkEmail":"joe.cool#example.com",
"isManager":false,
"location":{
"descriptor":"Santa Rosa, California",
"id":"deadbeefdeadbeefdeadbeefdeadbeef"
},
"primarySupervisoryOrganization":{
"descriptor":"Peanuts (Charles 'Sparky' Schulz)",
"id":"deadbeefdeadbeefdeadbeefdeadbeef",
"href":"https://services1.myworkday.com/ccx/api/api/v1/{myCompany}/supervisoryOrganizations/deadbeefdeadbeefdeadbeefdeadbeef"
},
"businessTitle":"beagle"
}
Can anyone help provide info on how to get a web profile URL from the Workday API?
The ID returned from workday's API is actually the Workday ID, not Worker ID. The Workday ID or WID is a direct reference to any object in Workday. This is often referred to as an "Integration ID". Workday doesn't document this very well, but workday's URLs do have an interesting thing you can take advantage of for deep linking to any Workday Object:
https://www.myworkday.com/{myCompany}/d/inst/{sourceReferenceWID}/{WID}.htmld
As long as you have the Workday ID (WID) of an object, you can deeplink directly. The sourceReferenceWID is just for logging purposes, so you can enter any text you want. I tested this in my own tenant with the text "deeplink" replacing {sourceReferenceWID} just for fun. For your example, the following URL should work for Joe Cool:
https://www.myworkday.com/{myCompany}/d/inst/deeplink/deadbeefdeadbeefdeadbeefdeadbeef.htmld
This is not officially documented, so Workday may change how this works and your mileage may vary.
It's not a delivered REST API, but you could create a RaaS with the Business Object "Worker from Prompt". There is a field called "Worker Instance URL". When you call the endpoint, you can use the WID (Workday ID), the Employee_ID, or Contingent_Worker_ID for the filter.
https://wd2-impl-services1.workday.com/ccx/service/customreport2/{tenant}/{report owner}/{report name}?Worker!WID=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
or
https://wd2-impl-services1.workday.com/ccx/service/customreport2/{tenant}/{report owner}/{report name}?Worker!Employee_ID=x
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I am trying to use Auth0 to get a list of users when my user list is >1000 (approx 2000)
So I understand a bit better now how this works after following the steps at:
https://auth0.com/docs/manage-users/user-migration/bulk-user-exports
There are three steps:
Use a POST call to the https://MY_DOMAIN/oauth/token endpoint to get an auth token (done)
Then take this token and insert it into the next POST call to the endpoint: https://MY_DOMAIN/api/v2/jobs/users-exports
Then take the job_id and insert it into the 3rd GET call to the endpoint: https://MY_DOMAIN/api/v2/jobs/MY_JOB_ID
But this just gives me a link to a document that I download. Essentially is the same end result as using the User Import / Export extension.
This is NOT what I want. I want to be able to call an endpoint and have it return a list of all the users (similar to the Retrieve Users with the Get Users Endpoint). I require it is done this way, so I can write a python script and run it as a cron job.
However, since I have over 1000 users, I am getting the below error when I call the GET /API/v2/users endpoint.
auth0.v3.exceptions.Auth0Error: 400: You can only page through the first 1000 records. See https://auth0.com/docs/users/search/v3/view-search-results-by-page#limitation
Can anyone help? Can this be done all the way I wish it to be?
I am creating the application which need to track all tweets from user who registered to my application, i tried to track those with streaming API , there are public API, user API , and site API,
in those API it just have an option to follow the user ID by add the comma separated user ID
https://dev.twitter.com/streaming/overview/request-parameters#follow
but i think it is not flexible, if there are a new user registered , i need to rebuild the HTTP request , and also if there are so many users try to listen this stream and query will be so long,
it will be
https://stream.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/filter.json?follow=[user1],[user2],[user3]........[userN],
i afraid the query wont fit, i just need a parameter to filter all user who registered in my application such as, for example.
https://stream.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/filter.json?application=[applicationID]
but i think twitter dev does not provide it
so, is there any way to filter stream by application ID?
I didn't see anything like tracking by application id. If your query become too complex (too many follows/keywords), public streaming api will reject it,
and you can't open more than 2 connections with user stream. So, last solution is using Site Stream, -> you can open as many user connections as you have users registered to your app.
BUT the docs says :
"Site Streams is currently in a closed beta. Applications are no
longer being accepted."
Contact twitter to be sure
Arstechnica has a very interesting article about it. Take a look at this code and the link in the end of this post
If you are using python pycurl will do the job. Its provides a way to execute a function for every little piece of data received.
import pycurl, json
STREAM_URL = "http://chirpstream.twitter.com/2b/user.json"
USER = "YOUR_USERNAME"
PASS = "XXXXXXXXX"
userlist = ['user1',...,'userN']
def on_receive(self, data):
self.buffer += data
if data.endswith("rn") and self.buffer.strip():
content = json.loads(self.buffer)
self.buffer = ""
if "text" in content and content['user'] in userlist:
#do stuff
conn = pycurl.Curl()
conn.setopt(pycurl.USERPWD, "%s:%s" % (USER, PASS))
conn.setopt(pycurl.URL, STREAM_URL)
conn.setopt(pycurl.WRITEFUNCTION, on_receive)
conn.perform()
You can find more information here Real time twitter stream api
I am still new to javascript and trying to write a Slackbot in express js. I want to use the method defined in https://api.slack.com/methods/channels.history. How should this look syntacticly and how do I use it since the method is simply a URL?
You need to make an http request for the URL and you'll be returned a response with an object containing the status (ok:true|false), if there are more messages (has_more:true|false), and then an array of the actual messages (messages:array).
The response should look something like this:
{
has_more:true
messages:Array[100]
ok:true
}
The url that you make the get request to should look something like:
https://slack.com/api/channels.history?token=BOT_TOKEN&channel=CHANNEL_ID&pretty=1
Where BOT_TOKEN is the token attached to the bot you created, and CHANNEL_ID is the ID (not the name) of the channel whos history you want to get (9 uppercase alphanumeric characters, starts with a "C").
There are also a few other parameters you can include in the url. For example, "latest=", "oldest=", "inclusive=", "count=", and "unreads=". Details about those parameters can be found on the page you linked to (https://api.slack.com/methods/channels.history).
If you want to test it out in your browser's console, find a page where jQuery is loaded, open your dev tools and head into the console, and enter the following (with your bot token and channel id swapped in):
$.get('https://slack.com/api/channels.history?token=BOT_TOKEN&channel=CHANNEL_ID&pretty=1', function(response){console.log(response)});
I am using Disqus API to fetch details of the logged in user. I am not sure how to pass the current logged in user.
I have both api_key(public) and remote_auth and I am using Jquery ajax to send api request over http.
If I do something like this,
https://disqus.com/api/3.0/users/details.json?api_key=[apikey]
It says "You must either provide a user or authenticate the user." Now I have the loggedin users remote_auth.
FYI: This is how I am creating the remote_auth. Example User Id: 3096795, email = "a#a.com", Name="Test". Now when this user logs in to the website, it logs in to Disqus as well. I can see this user in http://disqus.com/api/sso/users/ with id = 3096795.
I have couple of questions:
1) Can I use jquery ajax to send a authenticated user and get user details? Or this can be done only via Server side? (Java/Php)
2) If I pass ?remote_auth=[remote_auth] as a query string, will it work?
3) if yes, remote_auth value has spaces in between HMAC->SHA1(secret_key, message + ' ' + timestamp) so how can I pass it as query string parameter?
4) If no, then how to pass a user to the listActivity.json endpoint? If I am passing the userid, then it returns me some other user and not the user I created.
The below request returns a different user.
https://disqus.com/api/3.0/users/details.json?api_key=[apikey]&user=3096795
How can I ensure the userid I am passing is unique and not already taken by a different disqus account?
Am I missing something?
Your remote_auth is a form of authentication, just like access_token, so you'll want to pass that in your request as remote_auth=<YOUR_PAYLOAD>.
If you pass "user=" that ID would have to be the Disqus user ID, which isn't the same as your remote_auth ID. Your remote_auth is a form of authentication, just like the access_token. However, keep in mind that we don't return as many details for SSO users as authenticated Disqus users. This is because the details are managed by you, the SSO site owner.
To answer your other questions:
You can use the client-side API to get these details, but we recommend the server-side API + caching the results to avoid bumping into API limits.
URL-encode the payload and this will work
Easier using https://github.com/anthavio/disquo
DisqusApplicationKeys keys = new DisqusApplicationKeys("...api_key...", "...secret_key...", "...access_token...");
DisqusApi disqus = new DisqusApi(keys);
//SSO is available only to premium accounts
SsoAuthData ssoauth = new SsoAuthData("custom-12345-id", "Firstname", "Surname");
//SSO User identity is used to create post
disqus.posts().create(ssoauth, keys.getApiSecret(), threadId, "Hello world " + new Date(), null);
I'm trying to use the http://Astrid.com API, specifically to get data using the method under the "Request Format" section on this page - http://astrid.com/apidoc/file.README.html
The URL I built is:
https://astrid.com/api/7/task_list?app_id=[MY APP ID]&time=1&user_id=[MY USER ID]&sig=[MY REQUEST SIGNATURE]
And it returns this:
{"list":[],"time":1363131562,"status":"success"}
Seems like it worked, but does anyone know why the "list" array might be returning empty? I've created a bunch of tasks in my profile so it should be showing those.
Thanks!
You need to sign in first with the method user_signin. If successful you get a token.
Then you need to call the task_list method providing the token.
You do not need to provide a user id with the task_list method. It is only used to select tasks that you share with this user.
Example for signing in:
https://astrid.com/api/7/user_signin?provider=password&app_id=YOUR_APP_ID&secret=YOUR_ASTRID_PASSWORD&sig=SIGNATURE&time=1365715302.36&email=YOUR_EMAIL
Example for getting your tasks:
https://astrid.com/api/7/task_list?active=true&token=THE_TOKEN&sig=SIGNATURE&app_id=YOUR_APP_ID&time=1365715304.41