APIs your consumers will love
OAuth 2.0 has emerged as the de facto standard protocol for securely protecting APIs. It provides applications the ability for secure access while keeping your passwords safe using authorization tokens. In our increasingly connected world, knowledge on this authorization protocol
In these three videos, I show you how to use the Google API with OAuth. Don’t miss any upcoming episode and subscribe to the API-University channel on youtube. I provide the worksheet for you here. I hope it makes your
Social Login allows you to improve convenience for your customers and increase conversion rates for your signups and offerings. Instead of letting users fill in forms, they just need to click to sign in with LinkedIn. In this video I
Facebook has a popular API. To use the API, you need to get an OAuth Access Token first. In this week’s episode, I show you hands-on how to get both the OAuth token and how to call the API. Don’t miss any
LinkedIn has a popular API. To use the API, you need to get an OAuth Access Token first. In this week’s episode, I show you hands-on how to get both the OAuth token and how to call the API. Don’t
It can be seen over and over again: An API-key is directly embedded in the source code of an app. The most recent incident as of February 2020 is the Iowa caucus app, that contained an API-key right inside the
Before anything else, the Skill developer needs to register the Alexa Skill as an “App” with the API provider (e.g. Spotify). We call this step Alexa OAuth Provider Registration. Typically, there is a section on the developer portal of the
The top three things, that people do not understand about OpenID Connect. Misunderstanding 1: “We already got OAuth, so we don’t need OpenID Connect” Great, that you have OAuth. If you have it long enough, you probably have a big
For API security there are two standards — and both of their names start with the capital letter O. So it is no wonder, people ask all the time: What is the difference between OAuth 2 and OpenID Connect? The
How should we build signup and login for apps to increase app conversion? It needs to be simple. End-users tend to shy away from tedious onboarding processes or only get halfway through before they give up. How do some of