I know there is two kinds of API provided by Instagram which with one of them you can read public comments and images and etc. (Graphql) and with another one you can authorize your app to do some stuff on Instagram on behalf of the authorized user.
In our company, we have an internal portal and we want to add an ability to answer to company's comments directly from our portal. Also customer service unit is in charge of this task and they can't have our company's Instagram credentials. I want to know if there is a way to do such a task without any authentication from client side (for example, maybe I could add our Instagram credential from the portals back-end).
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I have been reading google+ API and domain API and found out that google+ API are read-only. And domain API is only for domain users. But somehow I just tried buffer, connected my google+ profile and shared some text. It appeared in the posts section. Now my profile was not a part of a domain, it was username#gmail.com. Also, there are other social products which give the same functionality.
How do this work?
Your app can share post on the behalf of the user on Google plus. All you need to do is take the appropriate permission from the user.
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/plus.stream.write Required - Grants
permission for the app to create posts or comments on behalf of a
user. The Google+ Domains API only allows creation of restricted
posts, and only allows comments to be added to restricted posts.
Ref : https://developers.google.com/+/domains/posts/creating
There is an open authentication specification called oAuth that utilizes public api's, for instance: GitHub. Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google, Slack, etc. I believe the easiest way to implement this strategy is either with a bot, webhook, or my choice api framework Express.
Express has a middleware library called Passport that enables a quick setup of the necessary steps to implement the correct api keys, secrets and callbacks. Essentially what you have to do is create an app with each provider and they will give you the api information necessary for your Passport configuration.
Once you've got that done, then you just hook up a simple router and server, then you've got an app that can allow your users to sign into whichever provider they choose. The beauty behind the solution is their password information is serialized inside a JSON store to prevent security issues.
https://developers.google.com/+/web/api/rest/
I am making a widget for my iPhone to fetch data about my Instagram followers. I won't be putting it on the App Store, and I won't be fetching any other users' data.
Can I do this? I have tried to figure out what to do but I think I have to register my website, even though I'm not making a website and this won't be shared with anyone else.
As stated in Instagram Developer Documentation, you will have to register your application before using the API.
1. Register
We'll assign an OAuth client_id and client_secret for each of your
applications.
2. Authenticate
Ask users to authenticate and authorize your application with
Instagram.
3. Start making requests!
Make requests to our API Endpoints with the users' OAuth credentials.
The takeaway here is that you'll need the OAuth credentials to access the API.
I need to access the YouTube API, authenticating as a single account so I can access its videos, tags, comments, etc.
A Public API Access key does not seem to cover this scenario as tags aren't visible to the public. Is it necessary to implement OAuth just to authenticate one account? I have no intention of having other users authenticate with the web app - only the YouTube account that belongs to the owner of the web app.
I have the username & password for the YouTube account. Is there no way to authenticate one YouTube account with the API as a single-user?
A Service Account seems most suitable for me, but apparently the v3 API doesn't support them.
I have different questions about Paypal API Credentials
Is it possible to retrieve User API credentials (Classic API Signature) for a paypal business account from code?, maybe calling a method of the PayPal SDK to access his profile?. I want to code something that checks if Merchant does not have API credentials, in case that he has them, store them in my local database for payment operations and if not, maybe redirect him to a video explaining how to do this.
Are those credentials different for each merchant account?
Is there a way to have the same credentials for different users using classic API?. I know Rest API Allows to do this (with client id and secret), but it does not allow me to do embedded payments, so that's why I'm using the classic API.
Thanks a lot
You can't do that. The API doesn't have anything like that. Either you need to post API calls using their API credentials or have them authorize your API username to run calls on their behald (where you pass their primary email address in the API calls).
I was just wondering, I want to associate a Twitter and LinkedIn account with my systems accounts. Which would allow them to post to interact with them without needing to log in to the other systems.
Is there a way to store the social (twitter / LI) usernames and passwords and associate them with my system and vis versa.
E.g. If I login using my native details (email / password) I can access the API features of my social network accounts?
Thanks in advance,
Chris
I can't speak for Twitter, but with LinkedIn you could follow this basic workflow:
Register an 'application' with LinkedIn. Your site will use this application for all communication with the LinkedIn API.
Have the user authorize your site (your application really), to access their account via the LinkedIn API.
Retrieve the user's unique LinkedIn ID, as well as their access tokens, and store those in your user account database, associated with their existing account.
Then, when they return and log in to your site, any calls you need to make to LinkedIn can be done via the stored access token, rather than having to have them manually allow you to have access again.