I have the following strange requirement: A given free proprietary software can be downloaded via a temporal link, which is valid for one day. This URL is used in a script (TravisCI / Docker) to download this product and install it. However, after one day, if the script is used again, the URL is invalid, and the script fails.
I would like to have a way to get that a valid URL and use a new one. It is not possible to get the new new URL directly from the website.
I was thinking about publishing a valid link in a public place, such as Twitter with a specific hashtag, and retrieve the link by querying the hashtag in Twitter. Any user that wants to use the scripts (TravisCI / Docker) just publish a new valid link, and the scripts will use it to download the software.
However, it is not possible to search in Twitter.
Is there any way to query Twitter without authentication from Command line in Linux?
What other method do you think I can use to retrieve a text (the valid URL) from Command Line in Linux? The important is that one person shares the valid link, and other persons using the script can use the valid link.
This is the project where I need that feature: https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/angoca/db2-install/dockerfile/
You can try http://tieba.baidu.com, where you can post anythng in a specific topic. Find a topic that no one cares and post anything you like there. Then you can just retrieve the latest post.
What I did is to create a page in github's wiki and put the link there.
From the script, I get the page via curl, and retrieve the last line that contains the valid link.
https://github.com/angoca/db2-docker/wiki/db2-link
https://github.com/angoca/db2-docker/blob/master/install/10.5/expc/download
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at the moment I am working on a Instagram implementation for the homepage of my school.
My problem was, that I didn’t got access to the account, so I couldn’t generate an access token (which all free joomla plugins need).
So I have decided to write my own plugin (I am not the best programmer, but it works), because of that I found this link (https://www.instagram.com/[username]/?__a=1) where I could get the JSON of the public page without the need of any token or ID.
My question is if I am allowed to use it or not (because I can’t find this link in the official api)?
We've built a small API that scrapes exactly that data and presents it to you via JSON:
https://apinsta.herokuapp.com/u/<username>
(In case you are still interested in this)
This URL closed by instagram on 14 April. You can get user's information json with this link:
https://i.instagram.com/api/v1/users/USER_ID/info/
Also you can find user ID like this:
Go to the https://www.instagram.com/USERNAME/
Look source code and find this code:
"id":"
You'll see the user ID between quotes.
Good luck.
The tool I'm building needs pull data from IBM Connections Ideation Blogs. I therefore use the Connections API with basic authentication to read Blog Entries. This goes well until the description contains images. When I ask the API to provide media resources for the blog, it does not show any entries of the /BLOGS_UPLOADED_IMAGES location - the one containing images uploaded through the blog's richtext editor. The user I use in my API call is the same user who created blog entries and uploaded pictures.
However the API call DOES contain images I publish using the API and a POST request to the blog's media entry collection. This is where the next problem appears. Those Atom entries for images contain various links, one of them with a ref="enclosure", of which the API documentation (link) tells me to "Use the web address in the href attribute to obtain the binary content of the file". However, my calls to this adress are always answered with 404 response code.
Another url in the Atom entry (this time of the element) is described by the same documentation (see link above) as: "Provides access the document's media. The following operation is supported: GET: Use the web address to obtain the media." When I make a call to this url, as always with basic authentication credentials attached, the response contains the html of the login form of Connections, so API authentication does not seem to be supported on this url. This is only the case for non-public communities, which require authentication, of course, if the picture is publicly availabe all works just fine.
Am I missing something out? Is there another way to retrieve the actual image from a blog's media entry through the API? Are manually uploaded pictures never contained in the media entries result or is this a bug?
It now magically works using the link with ref="enclosure" from the atom entry. I might have gotten something wrong with authentication I guess (although I'm not actually realizing what I'm doing different now than I did before).
Problem remaining: Pictures uploaded through the rich-text editor in the folder /BLOGS_UPLOADED_IMAGES do not appear in the media feed of the blog.
I have a browser extension which is scraping the threadId from the URL when the user is reading an email in Gmail, and is using this threadId to fetch circumstantial data using the Google Apps Script API.
The extension do however not know which of maybe several Google accounts are reading this message; it knows only the URL to my Apps Script webapp and the threadId. So when it executes the fetch, the webapp will the interpret request as coming from the default user session, which in some cases is wrong and will thus result in an null when executing GmailApp.getThreadById(e.parameter.threadId).
So what I am wondering is whether it is possible to specify what Google account to use when querying the webapp. Are there any possibilities other than asking the user to log off all other accounts and set the current one as default?
Unfortunately Google Apps Script does not have good support for multiple logins. See this page for more information.
You can add an authuser parameters to the requests you make to your the Google Apps script.
The authuser param's values are zero based indexes for all the Google accounts that are logged in the current browser session.
Now for extracting what index value you need to send, you can scrape the current page for profiles.google.com links that have authuser param and extract your value from them and send it with your requests.
The link might look like this:
https://profiles.google.com/ ... authuser=0
Specifically for gmail, the url also contains the current authuser index, For example:
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#inbox
This URL above contains the authuser value 1 at the end (before the fragment and after /u/)
I know this is very complex and is looks more like a hack. But I think this surely is a workaround, until Google provides a better way to specifying the context for your apps script requests.
I hope this might be helpful.
Thanks.
Hello I'm developing a web app where the user needs to verify that they are the "Owner" of the website. I know there is code verification but how would I check if that verification is on their site without over complicating the verification method?
Also, I'm thinking about giving the site owner an hour to verify, how would I automatically detect if the hour is over and be able to delete them from the database?
The way Google or Yahoo do this is to require the webmaster to create a file with a special cryptic name (the file length can be 0), which is generated by Google/Yahoo. Could be something like "dsaa6fd4sgfdsf324gd.html". So you generate such a unique (name) string for each websit eto be verified, store it in the DB, and then you go and try to GET it from that site. If the GET succeeds you can set "verified=true" in the DB for that site and file name.
To answer the 1hr question we'd have to know what technology you are using. There are many options to run timed background jobs from a web application. Usually you write the job details into the database, and have a background daemon check the DB periodically and execute any pending jobs. You could tell it (that daemon) to execute a job one hour later to see if the file (see above) exists. Well, you have to do it that way in any case, it's no use simultaneously telling the webmaster to create that file and check for it right away :)
I am going on making a Drupal site matches with my requirement. A requirement describes that on each node, such as Blog or Forum, except publisher's name and published date below the node's title, should show the user's thumbnail (similar to avatar in Facebook or Twitter) too.
I thing there is an existing module for this requirement. but I couldn't find it.
Could you tell me how to do this? some guideline or link to an example? it would be nice if you can tell me the module that is able to do this thing.
you wany to enable picture support: http://drupal.org/node/22271
and in addition, you probaly want to change the theme to call
theme('user_picture', $account);
where you want to display the picture (where $account is the account object of the user that is posting the node/comment)
the corresponding template file is user-picture.tpl.php