I know the steps to authenticate user and getting the user info after performing this call:
GET https://www.box.com/api/1.0/rest?action=get_auth_token&api_key={your api key}&ticket={your ticket}
But what I'm really looking for is to get user info after performing certain operation such as upload new file, in particular the user quota:
<space_amount>1234567</space_amount>
<space_used>1234</space_used>
Is there any way to get the latest user quota without calling the 'get_auth_token' again? As I understand it, 'get_auth_token' will generate new auth_token which I'd like to avoid.
There isn't yet a fully equivalent method in the v2 API. but you can utilize the get_account_info method from the v1 API to retrieve this information.
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I am currently building an ETL job in Talend Open Studio, that calls a banking API in order to retrieve customer data. The API works with OAuth 2.0. Using Postman, I can easily get an Access Token, which I then use in Talend to retrieve the customer data in JSON format. However, before I get the access token, the customer whose data I want to pull from the API, has to grant me permission for doing so. Using Postman, this is easy enough, as I get redirected to a page where the customer enters his/her credentials and then gives my App permission to pull the data:
My plan was, to setup the Talend job in a way, that this gets done automatically. My current approach is to use a tRESTClient component which calls the page on above screenshot and enters the credentials. Now there are several options with the tRESTClient component, but none of it works. First I tried to make a GET call with "Use Authentication Basic HTTP", parsing username and password of the user. That does not end with an error, but the response is just the html of the login page itself. When I try to make a POST call parsing the customer credentials to the TRESTClient component in JSON format, I am getting a 400 Bad Request. This is how my component looks in this case:
I also asked that question in the Talend Community forum, but so far no one replied to it. I dont know if I am completely off-trail here?! Any hint would be greatly appreciated, I am struggling with that task for 3 days now...
EDIT: to be more straightforward:Is it possible to perform these 2 steps in Talend alone:
Currently I am developing a Chrome-GMAIL extension which requires me to get the logged in user's first and last names. For experimentation, I have used the following goggle API (userinfo) and have successfully obtained the names I wanted:
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.profile
However, using the userinfo APIs will cause a change in the OAuth2 scopes in my manifest. This change will in turn cause a permission-prompt to my existing users (if a domain wide delegation is not setup in place). Point being the idea of having more prompts in front of my user, or additional oauth scope is not really something I desire.
Currently our extensions use the following OAuth scopes and API :
Chrome's Identity API
Chrome's Storage API
GMAIL.modify
GMAIL.send
My question is, is it possible to get the first and last names using an API that is defined/allowed/provided for by any of the above scopes/permissions I listed? or is userinfo the only way to go?
Thank you very much.
Profile data like first name and last name is private data. You are corect that some Google apis give you access to some data that would normally require an extra scope. For email normally you would need to to request the email scope to get this back however the Gmail api does have an endpoint getprofile which will return the current users email address without you requesting the email scope.
However i am not aware of any apis that will give you access to the users first and last name without you requesting the profile or user.profile scope.
If you do decide to add the scope, I do recommend going though the people api rather then the userinfo endpoint as the data returned by the user info endpoint is not guaranteed to always return the name.
I'm coding a app which needs to get a list of subscribed channels of the user.
So the user gets navigated to this page so I can get the authorization key:
Get Access key for my App "AboReminder"
Now I get the access key which I need for some api requests. But I am stuck on the issue that I dont have any glue how to get the subscription list.
I'm not able to understand the information on the google page: Google APi documentation
So my question how is a possible request for getting all subscriped channels of the user?
send an ajax request to the following URL after replacing the {{OAUTHKEY}} with the appropriate user authorization key
https://content.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/subscriptions?part=id,contentDetails,snippet&maxResults=10&mine=true&key={{OAUTHKEY}}
This should be a GET request and no request body required to set.
You can navigate to the next set of results using 'nextPageToken' in the response.
By default api can generate only 5 results. You can get upto 50 results by providing 'maxResults' query parameter.
As far as I know, there is no way to get all the list.
I'm trying to use the Graph API to get the feed of multiple public groups then that of multiple users.
When it comes to the feed of groups, it works flawlessly, all I have to do is fetch the following :
graph.facebook.com/$group_id/feed?limit={feedLimit}&access_token={access_token}
My access token being comprised of: AppID|AppSecret
However when it comes to fetching the feed of a user (Whose confidentiality settings are set to public of course) all I get is an empty answer. I would've thought it impossible to get such info and stopped there but then I stumbled upon ApiGee. All I have to do then is authenticate as a user (facebook-Authenticated-user) and it works.
Here's an image of it: http://s9.postimg.org/ynq5tar9r/feed.jpg
My question is : "How is that possible? I've read all I could in the docs and I still can't understand how it works. And how can I remedy that?"
Thank you.
The token you are using is an App token (AppId|AppSecret). With the app token you can't really get users personal feeds. With ApiGee you authenticated to get a user token, which can be used to fetch posts on the authenticated user's feed.
Read more about Facebook's access tokens
I'm using box API v2 and successfully with OAuth2. I'm successfully getting the access token back, but in order to avoid the "confused deputy problem" I need to have a way of getting the user id that a given access token relates to.
Is there a way of doing this? I'm trying to use the /tokens endpoint without luck. I read that you need to enable that but I can't find how. Even if I managed to enable it, would that help?
Thanks!
the /users/me endpoint will tell you the user id (and other info) associated with the access token that was used to authenticate the request. Documentation here.