I have a script which is retrieving user info for a set of users in our account. First we're calling socialize.exportUsers to get all UIDs, then I'd like to retrieve user info for a subset of this. Currently I'm calling socialize.getUserInfo on each UID I want to retrieve, which is quite slow.
I'm wondering if there's a way to batch API calls together so I can retrieve user info for multiple UIDs with one call. I didn't find anything in their API documentation or Developer's Guide.
Thanks,
Scott
Unfortunately, Gigya does not currently not have API functionality that would allow you to retrieve user information back as a batch.
However, if you have an active contract with Gigya, then you should be able to contact Gigya support directly and request a user export. Gigya has an internal data migration process where they can extract all the users on an API key into a JSON file and then send you that file.
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I have a Spring Boot-application with a public REST-API. The user authentication is handled by Keycloak. Users can use the API to submit jobs, which are then executed periodically as a Spring Batch. Some of these jobs require the user to be notified via eMail after completion.
The application currently does not store any user-related information, except the ID of the user, who submitted the job. My problem is now, that I need the eMail-address belonging to that User-ID to send the job-completion notification. The JWT passed to the API, which contains this information, can't be used at this time, since the job is executed asynchronous in the batch-context.
I came up with 2 possible solutions so far, which both have their own drawbacks in my opinion:
solution 1: extracting the required information from the JWT and persist them in the application's database for later use
drawbacks:
the application should not be concerned with storing user-information; it also shouldn't duplicate data controlled by other applications
the user might change its eMail-address in the primary user-database, without getting noticed by my application
solution 2: requesting user-details as needed by using Keycloak-APIs.
This looks theoretically like a good approach to me. The suggested solutions on SO utilize the Keycloak Admin-API (endpoint /auth/admin/realms/{realm}/users/{user-id}) to fetch user-details. This requires the application to be configured as a "confidential client" with own client-credentials and an enabled service account. What bothers me here: It appears a bit strange to me, that a regular application without any special privileges uses an Admin-API. Also, the users-endpoint is not restricted to users, which have previously given consent to access their data.
Is there a good way to solve this problem?
If job requires an e-mail for its completion, why doesn't it request it as start parameter and just keep it in memory?
This is how I would proceed:
#Controller extracts e-mail from ID token on the end-point from which the user triggers job start
user e-mail is provided among other parameters to the job
job completes sending the e-mail
e-mail is lost, with other job resources
I need to check the uploaded videos on a YouTube Channel and then upload missing videos via a CRON JOB.
I first thing I tried was the REST API and the server response with the endpoint was moved.
The problem I ran into with the PHP Google API Client is that it requires the user to authorize the token.
I now tried using the Python Code, but it also requires a authorize session. Also when creating the OAuth 2.0 client ID we are suppose to use OTHER. And there is no OTHER.
Python quickstart
Any Ideas? This has been really frustrating as there does not seem to be a lot of examples other than the ones Google provides. I also could not find a rest equivalent. I do not care if the solution is python or Rest or PHP client. I just need a user less CRON job doing the work.
What you need to consider is that there are two types of data public data and private data.
Public data is not owned by any user. Videos on YouTube for example for the most part are publicly available and do not require authorization to access. On the other had private data is data that is owned by a user.
In order to access public data you just need an api key to identify your application, however in order to access private user data you need the permission of the user who owns the account in question.
In order to upload to a users account (yes even your own) you need to be authenticated there for you will need to use Oauth2 yes even if you are using a cron job you still need to be authenticated there is no way around this. There for you will need to create Oauth2 credentials.
What i recommend you do is. Authorize your code once your your local machine store the refresh token and use the refresh token to request a new access token when ever your cron job needs access. I recomend you give that a try and if you have any issues create a new question include your code and a description of the problem you are having.
This is your only option with the YouTube API.
I am trying to use the ServiceNow API for the first time and I need to get a list of all the users in the sys_user table with all of their available fields/attributes like date created, updated etc.
I tried GET request to this URI:
https://myinstance.service-now.com/api/now/table/sys_user
But the response only returns the Users and some of their attributes but not all of the ones I can see in the portal.
What is the correct URI to make the REST call to get all users and their fields/attributes?
I'm assuming you want to access SN API from another application? Cause if you want to do that from within SN, there is the GlideRecord server API you can use.
Now when you access the table API from external source, you do that through a registered user - depending on this user and their roles, you might see all or only some of the user attributes. Also, if you add specific Query Parameters to your request like sysparm_query or sysparm_fields, this will limit what you get.
ACLs (Access Control Lists) is the mechanism in ServiceNow restricting access to Table API. So I would encourage you to check there. Perhaps you will need to create a technical user with sufficient roles to access the data you need.
Also the REST API Explorer which is found in SN Navigator can be of help to quickly test your table queries.
Hope that helps a bit!
In general table api returns all the columns associated to the table unless until if you have specified the specific column list in sysparam_fields, can you please try in post man or try the same api call from rest api explorer in Servicenow to understand the behavior. H
I am fairly new at using Parse Server (hosted in back4app) and would like to get some clarification on the pre-created 'users' table.
I am currently trying to develop a Web Application (Javascript) using Parse and I am using REST API calls to signup and login users. One thing I have noticed is that anyone can get a hold of my REST API key (through html source), but most importantly anyone can make a GET 'users' request to get all the users in the DB. These results include the username, email, and ObjectID. As a result of this anyone can make another REST call to the 'sessions' table with the ObjectID and retrieve the sessionToken (which I was planning to use as an authorization token for protected REST API calls)
I am not quite sure how this can be safely accomplish. I have search online but without much success. Any help or articles will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
The security access is made throuh the
CLP (Class-Level-Permission) and/or ACL (on each each row).
you should have a look here :
https://parseplatform.github.io/docs/js/guide/#security
Note that : "Session objects can only be accessed by the user specified in the user field. All Session objects have an ACL that is read and write by that user only. You cannot change this ACL. This means querying for sessions will only return objects that match the current logged-in user."
REM : for a web application you should use the Parse "Javascript Key" which can be "public". Try to keep the REST API key more "private" by using it for i.e. only on "third party custom and private server" that could make REST request on your database.
I'm working on a migration Product that migrates data in to yammer. I want to match the user on source to user on target based on full name. How do I retrieve user from Yammer based on Full Name? There is one REST endpoint to get user by email. Is there something similar to this for user Full Name ?
It's not possible to do this with the User API as it only supports getting a user by ID or email. You might want to look at the Autocomplete API, but it might be quicker to use the Data Export API and find the user in the users.csv file. It's hard to provide recommendations when you don't explain what you app does.