I've been banging my head against the wall on this for most of the day, and I just cant seem to get a correct user auth token. I am able to make calls to GetOfficalTime and GetItem, but when I try to do ReviseItem, I get "This item cannot be accessed because the listing has been deleted, is a Half.com listing, or you are not the seller." This item is active, not a Half.coom listing, and I am the seller (though the token says no). I've quadruple checked my key info as well.
I've tried to User Token Tool, I've tried Get a Token from eBay via Your Application, I've tried this -> https://ebaydts.com/eBayKBDetails?KBid=1661, but they all return the same error.
When I do Get User Token Here, then pass it directly to the API Tool to see if it works, it comes back as invalid as well. The only token Ive gotten to work is by doing that through oAuth, which works in the API Tool, but does not work when I add it to the Authorization header when making the Reviseitem call.
I own the eBay account that I'm trying to do the Reviseitem on and have typed my password in over 100 times trying to figure this out.
Can anyone point me in the right direction? I've scraped these forums high and low (Google too) and nothing I find seems to allow me to get a token and revise my items.
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I've scoured for any information regarding an Open API for Periscope.
I have a twitter feed, that should only show if Periscope is Live (the said user will share the broadcast via Twitter).
I can parse the word "IS LIVE" but then I'd have to parse multiple languages.
I'm looking to check an API if the user is Online in periscope, if so, then display the latest twitter feed (which is the broadcast).
There was this User Online button that could be generated
https://www.periscope.tv/embed
it calls an api like https://embed.periscope.tv/user/bpsdmik.json
but it seems that the certificate is invalid, so I keep getting errors ..
Any help / workarounds would be much appreciated!
I've Searched OPEN Periscope, but mostly requires an Authentication token etc.
There is no open API for Periscope. At least, not that I'm aware of. Which would explain your difficulty in finding anything. The closest thing would be the Unofficial Periscope API, documented by Pmmlabs (the same folks who run the OpenPeriscope project). However, as you've already discovered, most of the calls to the Periscope API, including all user-related calls, require an auth token.
Outside of using the API or screen scraping, the only other way I can think of to tell if a user is live or not is to try accessing their Periscope page directly. When you go to a user's Periscope page at https://www.pscp.tv/{userId}, Periscope will redirect you to that users most recent broadcast, where you can parse the broadcast id from the redirect URL. Once you have the broadcast id of the most recent broadcast, you can use the following API call (which does not require an auth token):
https://api.periscope.tv/api/v2/getAccessPublic?token={broadcastId}
... to determine whether the broadcast is live or not. Look at the JSON response and if the "type" field equals "StreamTypeReplay", then it's a replay, otherwise it's a live broadcast.
Reading almost the whole API reference of paypal, i am almost sure that they do not provide any kind of API method regarding donations. However i would like to check whether someone donates something to my paypal account and get some details of this transaction.
I thought of using the Activities Search REST API, however it was responding with -> "No permission for the requested operation" while i was testing it with my sandbox business account.
Anyone got any idea of how to claim this details? Do i missing something?
My last thought, was to use gmail API's to read the incoming emails that i am receiving (from paypal) when i got a donation, however i believe it's not a good solution, so its my last choice.
I am trying to display only the images the client uploaded to instagram on their website. The client's user ID# is 176722013. According to the API this URL will provide just such a feed:
https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/176722013/media/recent
As indicated by the error message, I need to provide either a client_id or an auth_token. Since I don't want to deal with authentication I went ahead and created an "app" in instagram developers to get a client_id # 5b5a6e95469f465f9f70e4ebcf9ee3a6
Yet when I add it to the URL I still get an error that I needed to provide an auth_token. How does that make sense?
https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/176722013/media/recent?client_id=5b5a6e95469f465f9f70e4ebcf9ee3a6
The app is in sandbox mode. When I attempt to submit it for review I must provide the purpose for the app. Upon selecting " I want to display my Instagram posts on my website." as the purpose I get the following message:
You do not need to submit for review for this use case. If you are a
developer and you want to display Instagram content on your website,
then you do not need to submit your app for review. By using a client
in sandbox mode, you can still access the last 20 media of any sandbox
user that grants you permission.
I am truly at a loss for how to proceed. Thanks for any support
As of June 1st, 2016, you need access_token to access API, where did u read: either a client_id or an auth_token ?
authenticate and get access_token and use to get API response.
#snucky you don't need authentication but you do need the users permission - from what I gather, instagram is accessible only by registered users - so you still need the access token - but instead of a server-explicit you need client-implicit.
Make a http request from your client to the api/authorize with the ?client_id=ID AND A redirect_uri=http://yoursite.com/ when the user allows the application, you'll receive an access_token in the url, which you will then use in every subsquent instagram call
read more here
I'm a little confused on how authentication works in Instagram. I want to display Instagram posts on a widget. But if I manually generate a single access_token I'm worried about hitting the limit (5000/hour) as it is a large web application.
Here's what I'm thinking: Have each user authenticate with their Instagram account and store their access_tokens and use the tokens to query Instagram's API. So essentially each user will be presented with Instagram posts queried using their access_token. And if the token expired for whatever reason I can easily have them re-authenticate. I need each user to authenticate anyway for other purposes.
I am not sure if the server could re-authenticate while providing a seamless experience for users.
Is this the right approach or is my thought process completely off?
EDIT: So I decided to have each user authenticate and call the Instagram API with each user's access_token. Everything has been working great. However, while testing the authentication one of my test accounts, I received this message "We noticed some unusual activity on your account. We'll send you a security code to verify your account." Are my API queries seen as unusual by Instagram if I'm querying public posts by tag for example? I'm worried my approach will cause end users to have to verify and ultimately make my application viewed as spam.
EDIT: I was hoping an Instagram API expert could offer advice on this topic. My application has been continuously querying for posts without issue. So for now I'm sticking to having each user authenticate and call the API using their access_token. I may have given the wrong impression when I said the Instagram posts would be on a "widget". I didn't mean a simple Instagram feed on a website. So if anyone has used the Instagram API for large amounts of querying for their application, please share your approach if possible!
If the access_token is invalid, you will get an error response like this:
{"error_type":"OAuthAccessTokenException","code":400,"error_message":"The access_token provided is invalid."}
check for this and ask user to login again
I'm creating a tool for a person to login into their google+ account and to lists all communities they were created or joined. I had googling around for a day and read google+ api references, but I couldn't find any information on:
Url of the API for accessing user's created or joined comminities,
Request parameters to perform such query
My tool has already succeed to perform oauth login and get access_token and ready to make any API call, But now I'm stuck trying to find the right Url and requirements to perform the API call as I wanted.
Please help
There currently is no API method to do this. If you would like to see such a feature added, you can star this feature request.