I can’t seem to find anything about changing actual user settings with the twitter api. I see ways to change the account “name”, but that is not the same as the username.
There is no API method for doing this. A user will need to use the Twitter website or app settings in order to change screen (user) name.
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I use djoser, social_django, rest_framework_social_oauth2 for registration and authorization of users in django by github.
For create a new user (if it doesn't exist) or log in use /convert-token.
But the site needs functionality to link a social account (if the user is logged in with username / password). How can I do it?
I tried to redefine pipline, but it didn't work. Now after the request(/convert_token), a new user is being created, and i dont know how to link a social account to a specific user manually.
Write if you need to attach a code or something else. Also, if there are other modules that implement this functionality, please write
i am building a website where you can get services for your Instagram account, i want to create a Search box that when you put your user name (e.g. "#John") it returns your profile picture and asks you if that is the correct profile (without logging in to your Instagram account),
I've found a website that made that possible already, does any one know how?!
the website - https://app.get-notch.com/acquisition/instagram-username
thank you in advance!
You should check out this resource that allows you to do that. See an implementation of it here and test it here.
This is the my web-app "User Settings" page.
I have simplified it to a minimum to better highlight the problem.
To authenticate users I use Auth0, I wanted to use the sub claim user_id to identify the users inside my MySQL database for update and retrieve user's info. Unfortunately the user_id is different for each provider, for example, if the same user with the same e-mail logs-in via Auth0 he gets a user_id if he does it via google he gets another one.
I thought about using email to link logged user to his info.
The problem is in my API. Before the change it was "localhost: 8080 / api / users /: id"
each time it created a new id and in any case it was impossible to recover the data of the single user. Now that I have replaced "id" with "email" my API has also changed in "localhost: 8080 / api / users /: johnsmith#xxx.com".
Before:
After:
In a few words, the request url on the client side has also changed.
I would like to make sure that the GET and PUT requests are made based on the e-mail of the logged user without going to modify the whole back-end.
Sounds like something is wrong with how you authenticate users. If you have multiple ways to authenticate a user, those methods need to be in a one to many relation with the user. For example each user has a list of auth-methods, and whenever an authentication is made you check your table of authentication methods and find the one user it maps to.
Im not sure if you are doing this yourself or if the framework you are using is handling that, but it sounds like you need to change the model to allow many Auth methods for a single account.
Also you could use email, but that is also an "old" way of uniquely identifying users almost every single person has multiple active email accounts nowadays, so you should also have a one-to-many relation for users to emails. What if the user has different email accounts for their Facebook and Google accounts?
See account linking here: https://auth0.com/docs/users/user-account-linking
It is dangerous to trust that the external providers are truthful about what email belongs to who. What if I open a new account using someone else's email on one of the providers? Then I can log into that users account in your application, which is a pretty big security risk.
For starters, I am on Ubuntu 14.04.
When I try to connect my username to the server and it asks for logging in with social network, I am unable to do so.
For "Login With Facebook", the page ends up going to facebook and a pop up displays saying:
App Not Setup: This app is still in development mode, and you don't
have access to it. Switch to a registered test user or ask an app
admin for permissions.
So, I guessed the facebook app wasn't set up properly and created a new user using Twitter. But logging in with Twitter fails as well. The OAuth goes through but when coming back to the app it says:
We were not able to match your social media account with this
username. Ensure your username is correct or the social media login
method is correct. Please close the browser and try again.
The link for "Or visit the Code Rally community for more details!" doesn't work either and I can't comment on any of the blog posts.
I am running out of social network logins so please advise what to do. Also, one thing to note is when I signup, I signup with a different email than the social network one, would that have anything to do with it?
which server are you trying to login on? (NA/EU/BR/IN/CN etc).
I'll go check the Facebook setup now to make sure I've not missed something, however it will help me narrow down the issue if I know which server is having issues.
The reason you can't login with Twitter on your ID is that it will already be associated with your Facebook ID which you registered with on InfoQ's contest site. To use Twitter you'll need to re-register a new ID on InfoQ's site and link it to your Twitter account (although I'd prefer to fix whatever is messing with the Facebook login).
edit
Looks like there was an issue in our Facebook OAuth config - it should be fixed now :-)
I am working on an iphone app which uses instagram API..and I would like to know the following things..Is it possible to get data from instagram without user logging?If so, what type of data would be retrieved from it?Is it possible to access data of a specified user?Or is it only possible using social networking sites like facebook,tumblr etc?
thanks
Yes, with a valid client id, you can fetch user information for a specific user id. Information available includes name, bio, website, and profile picture. You can also return multiple users' data using the search endpoint.
Take a look at the User Endpoints documented here: http://instagr.am/developer/endpoints/users/
I also suggest reading Do you need to authenticate? section here: http://instagr.am/developer/authentication/
NOTE: by providing a client id instead of a valid user token, you are counting against your own application's 5000 calls per-hour limit. If you plan on having a large user page, you would need to authenticate each user to avoid this limit.