What is the externalID property for users used for in Quickblox? Would it allow me to use Google+ sdk to log in a user to my application and then create that user in the backend?
Here is how to login with Google+ Quickblox Google Login
If you want to integrate QuickBlox, but you have already your User Base, you can use the externalUserID field. Just set it during the QuickBlox user registration.
Then, while working with QuickBlox users, you can refer to your original user by externalUserID
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I am integrating Sonos using Control API.
In the login phase, the user writes username and password in the Sonos login page and authorizes the integration.
After that Sonos returns an authorization code back to my integration to use for calling api.
I would like to display the username in my application. How can you get it?
Unfortunately, there aren't any publicly-available APIs for getting the user information you are looking for. Given the sensitivity of any type of user information, we don't have any plans to expose APIs for getting this information in the near future.
The closest thing to a user unique identifier would be a householdId. This is documented here: https://developer.sonos.com/reference/control-api/households/.
Thanks,
-Mark
Would facebook analytics provide demographic layer information if I integrate facebook sdk in my app without using facebook login and not reporting email ID associated with my app account?
Yes, you don't need to use FB login or upload PII to get demographic information.
I'm having a hard time understanding how Facebook communicates with my server when a user logs in (after approving my facebook app). I've been looking through guides and other Stackoverflow questions for hours on end but can't seem to get the hang of it. The documentation on http://developers.facebook.com/ isn't to much help much either.
What I want to do is to have a Facebook login button on my page which opens a Facebook login window (using Facebook's Javascript SDK). When the user then logs in to Facebook and approves my app I want to get the user's data (name, email, age) and store it in my database. How do I get this data, SECURELY (server-side confirmation/authorization)?
Basically, in this order;
a user clicks log-in button on my site
a pop-up is shown where the user can log in & approve the app on Facebook
check if user has already logged in before by getting user's user_id
if it's the users first time logging in, the user's Facebook data (specifically: full name, picture, email adress, age) is gathered by me and stored in my database
After the user logs/approves the app in the Facebook pop-up, where is the user's data then sent?
After the user approves the app, the user's data is not sent anywhere. You need to make an API call to retrieve the data.
Facebook is an OAuth provider. You use Facebook Login so the user can give you permission to access her Facebook data (such as email, friend list, messages, news feed etc). You can also get permissions to take action on behalf of the user (such as uploading a photo, posting to news feed etc.) While starting the OAuth flow, you specify which permissions you will request from the user. These are called scopes.
The authorization flow that happens in the pop-up window is there for the user to give you permission to access the data that you request. This permission is represented as an access token which you have to use everytime you want to retreive user data, or attempt to do something on behalf of the user.
Once you have the access token, you can use the Facebook Graph API to get whatever data you want from Facebook. If you try to access some data that you did not get permission for, then the API method will return an access denied error.
I wanted to give some more links about scopes and access tokens from the Facebook Developers site but my reputation score is too low :)
I want to automtically add calendar entries to Google Calendar from within my Rails App. I am not able to find a gem which allows transparent integration to Gcal.
Problem with gdata - http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/articles/gdata_on_rails.html#AccessingFeeds is that its not maintained and it requires the user to go to authentication URL. I am reluctant to store user passwords to everytime authenticate them before posting to their calendar. I already have google based openid using omniauth.
I am looking for a solution which can : 1. Allow updates to user's google calendar. 2. Wont need the user to authenticate everytime they want to update their calendar.
i want to know if its possible to get the email of the people who are using open id to authenticate to my site [of course with the user knowing that i am getting their email]?
this email will be the user id of the user and i want the user to be able to loggin using any provider and then i will set this email as the user identity.
i need this information in order to design the structure of my site.
i am looking into the following open id providers.
Gmail
Yahoo
Facebook Connect
Hotmail
thanks
Use open social API's...
OpenSocial defines a common API for social applications across multiple websites. With standard JavaScript and HTML, developers can create apps that access a social network's friends and update feeds.
Refer to this link for more:-
http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/
Who says the OpenID provider has the user's e-mail to give to you? I can get an OpenID identity that's accessed only by my fingerprint.