#88 new
Mark Paschal

Can't access anonymously available resources anonymously through API

Reported by Mark Paschal | April 1st, 2011 @ 10:43 PM

Leapfrog can't use the API to generate items for MLKSHK posts that were linked from Twitter. I can extract the sharekey from the URL directly, which would allow me to use the /api/sharedfile/<key> endpoint to get the post metadata. However, Leapfrog can't, as in that case it's not acting in the context of a MLKSHK user, so there's no token to authenticate to the API with.

As I have the URL, I could get the post metadata from OEmbed instead, but as no extra author info is provided in the OEmbed response, Leapfrog doesn't have the user ID and profile image URL to make a MLKSHK account for the author.

Would it be possible to authenticate anonymously to the API somehow (perhaps identifying with the API application's consumer key and secret), and have available the API resources that are available anonymously to web viewers (namely posts through /api/sharedfile/<key>)?

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