fooAuth

We don't care about oAuth.

About

fooAuth is a Rails app (running on Sinatra) that will convert your basic auth requests (using username + password) to oAuth request (with all the tokens, keys and secrets...).

Status

fooAuth is still in development phase (actually even still in design phase). Currently I am able to post a tweet on Twitter using fooAuth.

Usage

Pass the following parameters to you fooAuth requests:

• foo_site: the API site you are using (e.g. 'http://api.twitter.com')
• foo_page: the API page you want to send to request to (e.g. '/statuses/update.json')
• foo_consumer_key & foo_consumer_secret: oAuth consumer key and secret acquired from API you are using (for twitter use: http://dev.twitter.com/apps/new)
• foo_username:
• foo_password:

Any other parameter will be passed to the 'foo_page' request.

Example

Assume the following environment variables:

• USER: Twitter @username
• PASS: Twitter password
• CONSUMER_KEY: Twitter API consumer key
• CONSUMER_SECRET: Twitter API consumer secret
• HOST: the host where you are running fooAuth (e.g. http://127.0.0.1:4567)
• SITE: the API site, which is http://api.twitter.com for Twitter

Example 1

Get latest tweet from your home timeline: curl -u ${USER}:${PASS} -G
--data-urlencode foo_consumer_key="${CONSUMER_KEY}" --data-urlencode foo_consumer_secret="${CONSUMER_SECRET}"
--data-urlencode count="1"
${HOST}/${SITE}/statuses/home_timeline.json

Example 2

Post a new tweet: curl -u ${USER}:${PASS}
--data-urlencode foo_consumer_key="${CONSUMER_KEY}" --data-urlencode foo_consumer_secret="${CONSUMER_SECRET}"
--data-urlencode status="Posting a tweet using fooAuth"
${HOST}/${SITE}/statuses/update.json