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Mastering OAuth 2.0

You're reading from   Mastering OAuth 2.0 Create powerful applications to interact with popular service providers such as Facebook, Google, Twitter, and more by leveraging the OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784395407
Length 238 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Why Should I Care About OAuth 2.0? 2. A Bird's Eye View of OAuth 2.0 FREE CHAPTER 3. Four Easy Steps 4. Register Your Application 5. Get an Access Token with the Client-Side Flow 6. Get an Access Token with the Server-Side Flow 7. Use Your Access Token 8. Refresh Your Access Token 9. Security Considerations 10. What About Mobile? 11. Tooling and Troubleshooting 12. Extensions to OAuth 2.0 A. Resource Owner Password Credentials Grant B. Client Credentials Grant C. Reference Specifications Index

Creating the world's most interesting infographic


We've now concluded our exploration of the various methods for passing our access token in an API call. We did this by demonstrating API calls to two of Facebook's APIs: one to fetch the profile data of the user, and the other to fetch the feed data of the user. You can now use this data in your application to generate all sorts of interesting statistics about your users. We will leave this as an exercise for you.

You can see an example of what can be accomplished with this data. Simply visit the following website:

www.worldsmostinterestinginfographic.com

This website is a production version of the server-side example that we've built in this book. Let this be a very simple example of what can be accomplished in a short amount of time using the OAuth 2.0 protocol to interface with a world-class service provider like Facebook!

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See it on GitHub!

The full implementation for this entire web application is available for viewing on our public...

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