I have have trying to communicate to third party application from react app. Whenever user tries to browse say : http://somesite.com/ , user is redirected to http://authenticationsite.com/ . This application then responds back with POST data in first site if the user is successfully authenticated. I have routes for handling get request. How can I possibly handle POST request from third party apps which contains information like token in the react app?
You basically want to implement sort of token based authentication?
When you load your app (or a component within your app), make a POST request to the authorization website using some ajax library, like axios, fetch or jquery ajax. Depending on the response from the 3rd party server, save the token somewhere (localStorage for example) and proceed with the rest of the flow.
Hope this helps! If you have any questions, or I misunderstood your question, please let me know, and we will proceed from there.
I'm using the instagram API to get some images related to an specific hastag but when I call the API I get a message saying the API is deprecated.
I'm calling this endpoint
https://api.instagram.com/v1/tags/{tag-name}/media/recent?access_token=ACCESS-TOKEN
Any idea on what call I need to make to return the list of images with the requested hastag?
So I figure out why this is happening. Because the application is still in sandbox mode I can only get hashtag from the accounts that have access. Once the application is approved it will be able to pull the data from the API.
I have two google calendars that I am trying to add events to programmatically through HTTP requests. I happen to be using iOS HTTP library, but I imaging that's largely irrelevant.
Both http requests are coming back as successes, but one calendar is declining the invitation.
It appears to me that they are both set up the same way, although I don't have admin access to them.
Is this more likely a calendar configuration problem that I can't see or is this an HTTP request problem?
Does anyone know the proper configuration settings for the calendars?
Edit: I asked for and received admin access to a pair of calendars, one that works one that does not. Both calendars have the "See all event details" preference selected
I have a mirror-api application i'm writing that takes notes, pictures and video from the users timeline and stores them. For some reason every note and picture I take and send to a contact i inserted through mirror has "Failed to Send" posted on the timeline card in glass. The app however still receives the timeline item. Anyone else having this issue?
You need to setup the timeline subscription (https://developers.google.com/glass/v1/reference/subscriptions/insert) with "UPDATE" item included in the "operation" list.
Mirror API will sending POST queries with the shared card info to your callbackURL endpoint. Accordingly your service should return HTTP Status 200 in response.
The endpoint should have HTTPS connection. To solve this - use ngrok (https://ngrok.com/) if you're developing on localhost or Google's subscription proxy (just google it, i can post more than 2 links now)
Surely someone else is using the API, I've looked and searched, I cannot seem to find the correct value to place for the scope parameter when authenticating:
I've looked at all these scope lists, nothing, tried the OAuth 2.0 playground, translation is not there.
oauth playground v1
oauth playground v2
oath supported scopes
auth scopes
Any clues welcomed, thank you.
Error message:
Error: invalid_request
Missing required parameter: scope
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Update
User Ezra explained that OAuth2 authentication is not needed for the Translation API.
I got down this road by this path:
I was trying to make the sample code here work:
translation api sample code
And didn't have the apiclient.discovery module
from apiclient.discovery import build
I went off looking for that which landed me here to this quick-start configurator
which gave me an autogenerated translation api project here:
This starter project which is supposed to be tailored for Translation API includes a whole bunch of OAuth configuration and so I wound up asking the question because of the error mentioned here
exception calling translation api: <HttpError 400 when requesting https://www.googleapis.com/language/translate/v2?q=zebra&source=en&alt=json&target=fr&key=MYSECRETKEYWENTHERE returned "Bad Request">
The code I'm using to make said call which errors out in this way is:
service = build('translate', 'v2',
developerKey='MYSECRETKEYWENTHERE')
result = service.translations().list(
source='en',
target=lang,
q='zebra'
).execute()
If I make the same call directly that the error complains about, it works ok
https://www.googleapis.com/language/translate/v2?key=MYSECRETKEYWENTHERE&q=zebra&target=fr&alt=json&source=en
Updated Again
Okay, I removed all the OAuth code from the sample project and then ran it again and then finally noticed that I had a typo in my secret key... donk
Thanks for the answers!
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Thank you
I think you are misunderstanding what OAuth scopes are for. You didn't list any of your code, so I'm going to explain some concepts, and hope that you can apply them to your situation.
OAuth Scopes explained:
The purpose of OAuth scopes is accessing information about authenticated users. The scopes are different for each applications, and determine what information about a user that an application is granted access to.
Concretely, an OAuth request with the scope parameter as
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.email https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.profile
Would show the user a prompt similar to the following when logging in:
+ View basic information about your account
* View your name, public profile URL, and photo
* View your gender and birthdate
* View your country, language, and timezone
+ View your email address
* View the email address associated with your account
While one with only https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.email would show something like:
+ View your email address
* View the email address associated with your account
Translate API explained:
To use the Translate API, you don't have to have users authenticated with OAuth. You simply get an API Key, and provide that key in your request to the service.
The use of the Translate API is completely orthogonal to the use of OAuth.
As documented on the Translate API site, to translate something you simply make a request to
https://www.googleapis.com/language/translate/v2?parameters
with the appropriate parameters.
The parameters needed are, as listed in the documentation, the
API key. Use the key query parameter to identify your application.
Target language. Use the target query parameter to specify the language you want to translate into.
Source text string. Use the q query parameter to identify the string to translate.
Concretely, a request to translate the text "hello world" into German would be:
https://www.googleapis.com/language/translate/v2?key=INSERT-YOUR-KEY&source=en&target=de&q=Hello%20world
Look at the parameters specification to get an idea of what you have to supply.
What to do:
Look at the source of the Python example using the Translate API or look up the API library for the language you want to use.
You'll see in the examples that there is no mention of OAuth scopes, because it's not needed to authenticate against the Translate API service. You only need to provide your API key, and the text to be translated in your request to the service.
There may be API calls that require scope, but Translate is not one of them.
If there is some piece of information about a user that you need, you will have to look up the API and Scope needed to access that piece of information. You will then supply this information to the Translate API as necessary.
In case of 400:
If you are getting an error response, that's good, because the call to the service is working, even if it's not doing what you want.
In the case of a 400, the Translate API's response will give you a clue about your error in its response.
{
"error": {
"errors": [
{
"domain": "usageLimits",
"reason": "keyInvalid",
"message": "Bad Request"
}
],
"code": 400,
"message": "Bad Request"
}
}
The response above indicates that the key is invalid. You can request a new one (or find out your old one) through the Google API Console.
Summary:
OAuth scopes are used for requesting information about a user. You will have to identify the scope when authenticating the user, and you will have access to all information provided by those scopes.
The Translate API doesn't need a scope. You provide an API Key (and some other information) in your request, and it gives back the translation as documented.
If there is information about a user that you wish to translate, it must be done in two steps. First, collect the information by authenticating the user in the appropriate scope, and second by providing that information to the Translate API.
If you're getting a 400, the response will include some information you can use to debug the problem.
According to Google's documentation, you have to look at the documentation for your specific API.
Update as per this Google Group question:
"The Translate API (both v1 and v2) is an unauthenticated API, so you don't need to use OAuth with it. Instead, for v2, you should use an API key, which you can get here: http://code.google.com/apis/console"
For error message
Error: invalid_request
Missing required parameter: scope
You need to add scopes in your form
<input type="hidden" name="scope" value="https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.profile https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo#email https://www.googleapis.com/auth/plus.me https://www.googleapis.com/auth/tasks https://www-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/api/people https://www.googleapis.com/auth/plus.login" />
Please refer spring social login with linkedin,facebook,twitter and google providers.