Archives for “api”
So you want to authenticate users using the Github API on your next Ruby and Rails project? Using Omniauth this is very easy to accomplish, however I set out to make it even easier by building a Rails skeleton for just this task! First thing you want to do is create a new application on [...]
The Twitter API utilizes a 3-legged OAuth authentication process where an authenticated Twitter user can authorize a Twitter-based application to interact with their account and data. This is useful for applications that desire this ability, however what about a Twitter application that doesn’t care about other users and just wants to get down and dirty [...]
UPDATE (02/08/2013): Facebook has deprecated the offline_access token, so this method no longer works! See this post on Stack Overflow to learn how to extend an access token to 60 days. I’ve been working on a few scripts that performed some minor data collection using the Facebook Graph API as a data source. Ideally, I [...]
