I'm trying to find out how to get a ClientID and clientSecret to use with the Bigcommerce API.
Our website has to redirect an owner of a bigcommerce store to bigcommerce itself, so that they can grant us permission to query their sales data.
My understanding is that before doing this, we need credentials for OAuth, i.e. ClientID and ClientSecret, and that when our user grants us permission, we get back a token.
The only problem is, I can't see where to get our credentials in the first place. Bigcommerce seems to want you to create an 'App', which it then suggests you place on their store. We already have a website, which is going to call the API behind the scenes.
How do I go about getting ClientID, ClientSecret?
thanks in advance.
You want to create a developer account and then register a draft app which will provide a Client ID and Client Secret for you.
You can find the details in the Getting Started section here:
https://developer.bigcommerce.com/apps/
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What is the right procedure for pulling data about a customer (using OAuth to "Connect with Paypal" similar to the functionality that Stripe and Square provide) from Paypal?
The paypal documentation is confusing in two ways -
The OAuth scopes shown only have basic profile information like email, address, name, etc. and the link to the attributes page in the Account Information line item seems broken.
Other places mention that you have to sign onto the Paypal partner program to pull data on behalf of third parties.
So, for anyone that has gone through this - what is the right way to proceed/do I have to sign up to Paypal partner program? Is Permissions the right API to use?
I know broadly that connecting and fetching paypal account data is possible since, for example, Kabbage allows you to link your Paypal account and pulls data from it directly.
Connect with PayPal is so a user can click the CwPP button, sign into PayPal agreeing to give you access to certain profile information (based on the selected scopes) -- and then once they grant that permission and return, you're able to use the provided authorization code to access their profile information with its API.
In order to use CwPP in the live environment, your CwPP app has to be approved. You don't need to be in the PayPal partner program for this.
Our client has asked us to build a Shopify site that ties into their in-house customer db (with or without using Salesforce). Is this even possible? Does Shopify support any method of cross-site database querying?
The only thing I can think of to accomplish this is to write a webhook on their in-house server with a simple read-only mini DB query API. However, as that I'm not super familiar with Shopify's more obscure capabilities (and having already spent quite some time sifting through their docs and running google searches on the matter with absolutely zero results), I'm not even sure if this is possible.
Are we barking up an impossible tree, or is this something that can actually be accomplished?
Thank you in advance for any help you can give.
What I have understood from your description is you already have an external database with user login details and you want to use the same for authentication in Shopify. If yes, then it is possible with Shopify Multipass feature. This feature is only available for Shopify Plus plans. From the Shopify Multipass docs
Multipass login is for store owners who have a separate website and a
Shopify store. It redirects users from the website to the Shopify
store and seamlessly logs them in with the same email address they
used to sign up for the original website. If no account with that
email address exists yet, one is created. There is no need to
synchronize any customer databases.
For your particular scenario, you would have to validate user credentials with your external database, generate multipass url and redirect.
Yes your requirement is quite possible. But the method i am going to mention is a hack basically. Below are the steps:
Create Login page/Account creation page in Shopify
When the user does a login/create account you send the information to your server via below methods
JSONP request
Creating a iframe of your domain and passing the information in the iframe
Now, you validate the user credentials at your server
After validating you check if the user is present in Shopify. If not you create the user with a password. API Link
Make sure you save the user password you push into Shopify at your end also.
Now when you have completed authentication of the user, return back Shopify username and password
Create a hidden form in Shopify liquid file and pass the credentials in the respective fields and submit the form and user should be able to log in with the existing password they have!
I am trying to get all the ads from the eBay-Classifieds API, I have also gone through the documentation.
http://api.ebay-kleinanzeigen.de/docs/pages/home
but when I execute this below URL which is given in the documentation
https://api.ebay-kleinanzeigen.de/api/ads
it is asking for username and password, I have also created an account on
ebay-kleinanzeigen.de
but that username and password seem not to work.
any help would be appreciated.
for the eBay-Classifieds API you need an partner account and user account.
Without the partner account you cant use the api.
https://api.ebay-kleinanzeigen.de/docs/pages/intro
Contact platform implementations for general questions or partnership requests.
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 am trying to use the Ebay API to get completed transactions for a seller(s) that is using a different account from my developer account. I've looked into GetSellerTransactions and GetOrders. Unfortunately, I am not sure if it's possible to specify a User ID different from mine. Could you point me to working example of how to do this?
To get transactions for a user you should be first authorized by that user.
You will need a developer account for that.
This links will guide you
http://developer.ebay.com/DevZone/XML/docs/WebHelp/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=eBay_XML_API&file=GettingTokens-Getting_Tokens_for_Applications_with_Multiple_Users.html
http://developer.ebay.com/DevZone/XML/docs/WebHelp/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=eBay_XML_API&file=DevAndTestApplications-Testing_Applications.html
Once you get the user token for a user you need to send them along with your developer credentials to make the getOrders API call for that particular user.