I've been tasked by one of your clients to build an integration between their CRM and Social Tables. They want to be able to send events from the CRM over to Social Tables. Is this possible to do without having to login to Social Tables every time? From what I can tell they will have to do it once and then every time the token expires. Is this true? If so is there anyway that they can login to Social Tables every X amount of days or week, get a token, and then input that token into a custom area in a CRM. Then our CRM can use that token to query to Social Tables? Please help! Thank you!
yes we offer OAuth 2.0 flows. This means you can store a refresh token on the initial handshake. When that token expires you can use that to re-up the current oauth token.
Our docs are here: http://developer.socialtables.com -- We provide a few examples you can use to get started. But that would be the recommended approach.
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We are working on a system which retrieves data from customers' Shopify shops and provides some services based on this data. In order to make it as convenient as possible for an end-user we would like to update this data on a daily\weekly\monthly basis.
For now we only came up with a solution of implementing unlisted app, prompt a user to provide all necessary permissions for the app to access their shops and fetch the data. But the token we get doesn't seem to be valid for a long time and we probably won't be able to reuse it a day later.
We appreciate it if you can share any success cases of implementing this kind of approach.
You provide an App to the merchant they can install using oAuth. When the merchant is prompted to approve the App, Shopify will then provide your App with a long-lived access token you can use as much as you want, for as long as you want. I use a custom App from my Partner App dashboard to create these kinds of one-off Apps. It is superior to the one where the merchant has to tick off scopes and permissions IMO.
There are two kinds of token you can ask for and receive. One is considered for offline access, or long-lived. It works for everything. It is for webhooks as an example, or other access where no person is involved. But, there is also, online access tokens! Say a person clicks into the App from Shopify to do some work. You can request an online token for them to do their thing, and that token is only good for say 24 hours.
So you have options!
Our client is a company with a few million active users who may potentially authorize or list their Linkedin usernames on the website.
This company consulted us to integrate a data pipeline to collect these users' Linkedin data.
I can see from the documentation that I can apply for the Enterprise Program but there are certain limitations. Could any expert kindly point us in the right direction?
One potential issue is that LinkedIn users may or may not authorize.
Our ReServe Interactive Social Tables account/app (unleashedadmin#reserveint...) has been authorized for the Layout Automation API endpoint. Does this authorization extend to all users of the API (the other Social Tables users that authorize and communicate to Social Tables through our application)?
Access to the /4.0/layout-automation endpoint set is currently gated on the requesting user's team's product access. This means that as of today (9/7), the endpoint will reject requests made with OAuth bearer tokens on behalf of users who do not have access to the product, event if the tokens were issued to an app belonging to a team that has access.
It sounds like your use case involves invoking layout automation on behalf of your end users, and we want to support it. We are treating this lack of access propagation as a bug, and will be rolling out a resolution and responding to this thread as soon as possible.
Thank you for your patience, and for helping us improve our platform.
I have a web application backend for my clients web site. Authorised staff can log in to the backend and view data.
I want to pull some data from Google Analytics to be viewed in the backend, but GA seems to insist that the user is logged in to their Google account themselves using OAuth2
I want to be able to authenticate the server not the user. They already have permission and it seems unnecessary and possibly intrusive to ask them to link their Google accounts to the GA account and possibly even have to create one first.
The server already has to supply a client id, client secret and an api key, so it's not as if there isn't already an authenticated connection.
I'm guessing that there must be a way to pass the Google Analytics account credentials to OAuth2 somehow but I am not that familiar with OAuth2
Is this possible and how would it be done. A simple example or a nudge in the right direction would be appreciated
There are similar questions around but the ones I have found do not answer my question in the way I need.
Yes you need to store the authentication, but you may be able to use Google Analytics Super Proxy for your needs. At the very least you can see its code on how it stores the authentication.
You authenticate once, input the data you need scheduled from the GA Reporting API, then take the data feed and use it to build charts in your intranet. Any user can view those charts without needing to login to GA themselves.
Can I use Adwords API developer token for multiple applications? In more detail, say if I have a website where I am using adwords API developer token, Can I use the same token for another application. Ofcourse both applications accessing the same account after all.
Thanks,
Murali.
You can use the AdWords API across different applications with just one API token, just make sure though that you are caching the authentication response and re-using those tokens otherwise you'll hit the throttle limit. (Incidentally, logging in is possibly the slowest part of their API, so caching the response will speed up your application considerably)
No doubt you can use same development token for your multiple applications which are accessing same account. If your applications will access different account then it needs to get different developer token.
For the reference, you can read http://goo.gl/zLBPF
Hope it will help you.
Murali,
You need just one developer token, whether your application(s) access same account or different accounts (whether linked under the same MCC hierarchy or not). As a matter of fact, AdWords API Terms and Conditions explicitly prohibits you from getting more than one developer token.
If you use a developer token to make calls, you will be charged for API cost to the account holding the developer token. This is another reason why you should treat your developer token as a password and should reset it immediately if you expose it to the public by say, posting it publicly on a forum.
I also wish to point out that the official AdWords API forum is http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api, you can ask your questions there and someone will answer your questions in a day or two.
Cheers,
Anash
Yes, Adwords even has channels that you can create to separate your ad campaigns
Adword Docs - Campaigns