authorize mobile application

[Karsten]

I'm in the process of building a mobile app towards Goodreads, but are having some issues with the oauth.

I first call
http://goodreads.com/oauth/authorize?....

I'm directed to the login page, but after I enter the login details and press Login, I'm forwarded to a page stating that "You Have Disallowed This Request".

Guess I'm doing something wrong.

Suggestions?

[Michael]

Hmmm..... what programming language are you using? Are you using an oauth library? if so, which?

[Karsten]

Using .NET C# Silverlight (for Windows Phone 7.1)
Creating a WebBrowser and calling .Navigate(...)
Create a new EventHandler to "catch" the reply.
The first one is{https://www.goodreads.com/mobile/user...}
Second one looks like my original request.

Used the same method towards other OAuth REST Apis.

I am not using a oauth library.

[Michael]

A failure will return that message (as well as a denial).

I'd bet the request might not be signed correctly.


I'd highly recommend using an oauth library, theres at least one goodreads windows 7 phone client out there, and i'm pretty sure he used a library.

[Ettore]

Also I think there are a few more .NET users in this group, look around for their posts, I think some of them might have useful insights.

[Karsten]

Thanks. I'm begining to get this to work.

A somewhat unrelated question. It is possible somewhere to see what is returned if calling e.g. /updates/friends.xml.

[Ettore]

If the call is OAuth only, there's no way around it beside getting it to work with OAuth. Otherwise if the API allows key-auth, you can just append a format=xml and key=YOURKEY to the params and see it your browser (as you can see in the api page sample URLs).

I'm not sure if I answered your question though, let me know if I misunderstood.

[Karsten]

Well, actually my question was about if there was any examples of the XML/JSON you actually got back from calls after you had been authenticated, e.g. to /updates/friends.xml.

I would like to design my classes, but I don't know/can't find any information of what they should look like. E.g.

{
"id":1,
"author": "bob",
"title": "all the things you didn't know about the goodreads api"
}

[Michael]

We don't have any examples anywhere that i know of.

[Shawn]

Hey Karsten, let me know if you run into any other .NET issue with the Goodreads API, I'm also writing a WP7 Goodreads client and I've worked out most of the kinks in calling the API. Also I'd recommend grabbing the RestSharp library, it makes the whole OAuth and REST calls a snap.

[Louise]

Karsten, there's no example of updates/friends.xml specifically because it requires OAuth but if you want a general example of what our responses look like, you can check out the non-OAuth calls on http://www.goodreads.com/api like this one:

http://www.goodreads.com/review/recen...

If you sign up for an API key, then you'll be able to see the sample URLs for methods that don't require OAuth.

[Karsten]

Hi Shawn, I'm actually using RestSharp. I've run into another problem writte about here http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2...
Maybe you can help?

Thanks.