I am building an app that integrates nicely with Sonos speakers.
I would like to provide the user the ability to select the container (playlist/stations/...leafs of the tree here) of the music service provider. Say Amazon or Spotify...
I managed to understand the vast majority of the SOAP calls however, I could not figure out how to query the user's selected service (devicelink) and provide the same list that the Sonos controller show.
How do I do that?
thanks!
This is not currently supported by the Sonos APIs and many music services take steps to ensure that only Sonos controllers can browse their catalog.
Sonos decided that access to music services should no longer be allowed by third-party-apps some time ago.
I figured out how it works and made a complete walkthrough here, https://Sonos.svrooij.io/music-services.html
It makes a second connection to the specific music service, just for browsing the catalog.
get some data from the Sonos device
Request an auth code for the service
Let the user login
If the user responded, request an access token and a refresh token.
Save these tokens in your Sonos system (optional)
Use the tokens to talk to the music service
Save and use the new access token if it is expired (optional)
You can also use my sonos-ts library, which has support for music services that require authentication.
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We want to integrate into many different APIs so that our users can import their data on other apps into our app or do actions on their other apps when triggered on our app.
Plain API integration.
However, integration process takes too long for many services and you have to fill lots of forms. You have to submit a request to that platform, they check it, then publish in a few weeks or months. Doing this with many different apps can take months.
I just want to delegate the authorization process to another service. For example, https://auth0.com/ can authenticate users on their platform. This way, you can just use Auth0 and users can sign up to your app from hundreds of different apps. I need something similar to that but I need the access token.
Whenever a user wants to integrate another app to our app, I will redirect the user to that intermediary service and it will handle authorization and return us the access token.
Is there a service that can do that? Is this allowed by services like Google or Microsoft?
One platform I found is apideck.com
Handles authorization process instead of you, your users can see which apps they integrated over their panel or widget.
Allows you to quickly connect to tens of api services.
We currently use the Sonos Control REST API to communicate with the players. We would like to trigger the SMAPI rateItem for the currently playing item (like the Sonos APP does).
Is it possible by using only the Control API?
or is there a chance to get the SMAPI URL of the service by the serviceId used by the Control API, so that we can send the rateItem request directly to that service?
Is there also a JSON REST API available for the SMAPI or is it still only SOAP?
Thanx in advance
No
is the way to go, but you need to have figured out the auth secrets etc in order to get the url of the service, as well as the user credentials.
The devices only do SOAP APIs. JSON APIs are only used for the cloud API (and for the local, private version of that).
I have never taken my SMAPI support as far as the rating stuff. Older versions of my apps did support the Pandora Like button, but that was when Sonos used the old Pandora API, before they switched it over to SMAPI.
I'm currently integrating the Sonos Control API into our platform.
I successfully integrated "simple" commands related to play/pause, skipToNextTrack, skipToPreviousTrack but is it possible to access associated music provider to the sonos account through the Control API ?
I don't want to integrate a "simple" remote control for Sonos speakers. I would like to use the Spotify, Deezer or whatever associated provider account to search and play a song. Is there a way to do that?
Thanks for any reply :-)
This is not currently a possibility with the Control API. We'll bring your request back to the dev team.
I'm building an application which uses last.fm API. I want my server to communicate with last.fm and the users of my application would communicate with the server. So the user is indirectly communicating with last.fm. I'm doing this to speed up the whole communication by caching some data on my server.
Is this OK?
As long as you follow their TOS, you are OK.
Yes, this is OK. Many other services do this.
If you think about it, any action any app takes is always indirect. There is no requirement that the application acting on behalf of the user runs on the same computer as the user. Quite often the application runs on a web server.
Some examples of apps which do this include http://tweekly.fm/ and http://hypem.com/ .
In order for the service to act on the user's behalf (for certain methods such as scrobbling), you have to authorise your application as the user, and this is achieved using the web auth flow described at http://www.last.fm/api/webauth .
(This is one of those flows where the user is directed to a page on Last.fm to confirm that they authorise your app. Your app receives a session key in return, which allows your app to act on behalf of the user).
I recently started a new project using different carefully-chosen technologies, my project is built as follow :
The approach is API-Centric, which means I'm building a website and an iOS app communicating with an API written using Symfony2. I've successfully managed to write my API, and it is perfectly working.
To gain access to the services provided by the API, the main actors (the website users, the iOS app users and the developers) can authenticate theirself in several ways :
Clients can gain access with a login/password couple through the website interface which is communicating directly with the API through AJAX to validate the provided credentials and set a session. So, when someones logs in our website, they have automatically access to the API as well.
Developers can authenticate theirself through the API using HTTP-Basic over SSL, which will as well generate a session and give them access to the services they are authorized to call.
Also, Developers and clients can gain access to the website and the API using their facebook account through the Facebook Connect functionality. This deletes the step where each actor has to create an account on our website.
So basically, the credentials are provided either through HTTP-Basic or using the Facebook Login functionality.
Now that my authentication system is working and that my clients are able to access the website, I would like them to connect to a real-time server when they log in. Like in Facebook or Google+ if you want where the real-time server manages chat and push informations.
In this case i'm using Node.js and the powerfull socket.io library to manage everything that deals with the real-time side.
Of course, the real-time service will need some credentials to authenticate the user since he is authenticated to the Symfony security system with a session but is not authenticated against the real-time server.
A solution I've been thinking about would be to use the PdoSessionStorage in my API (Symfony side) and store all the active sessions in a database such as MySQL or PostgreSQL. Doing so, I would be able to send to my real-time server the session id generated by symfony and check on the database if the session id provided is correct or not. If he is I'll let the user access the services provided by my real-time server and associate his session with an identity.
But I really don;t know if this is a good solution and I would like some more experienced advices on this and on how to deal with this issue.
Note : For some reasons, I cannot implement OAuth even if it could be a solution to solve this issue using a Single Sign On approach.