API Resources

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Sergey Chernyshev edited this page Feb 21, 2016 · 1 revision

@TODO Why APIs are important? ... well, because they bring a lot of power of external applications and some also bring users too.

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Authentication

OAuth protocol for secure and auth
Secret key authentication

Supported in Startup API

Simplified OAuth calls

Startup API support simplified OAuth calls on behalf of the user for providers that subclass OAuthAuthenticationModule and OAuth2AuthenticationModule. Here's the code from sample Twitter client:

$creds = $current_user->getUserCredentials('twitter');
$result = $creds->makeOAuthRequest('https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/home_timeline.json', 'GET');