Social Media APIs & Xojo

General
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Hi all, long time no catch up.

I’m doing something very quick/dirty and back in Xojo for the first time in a VERY LONG time rather than Swift.

Are there any Social Media libraries out there now for Xojo apps? (Facebook/Twitter etc)., Out of touch with whats in the Xojo sphere now and don’t want to reinvent the wheel if someone already has written something I can use.

Thanks
Pat

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Hi Pat, the chillkat plugins may assist, http://www.chilkatsoft.com/refdoc/xojo.asp, although they come at a cost.

https://www.example-code.com/xojo/facebook_oauth2_access_token.asp

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Thanks Paul

Looks promising though being a plugin I wouldn’t have access to the underlying code and I’ve been burnt by that once before. Even for dirty type projects like this I would want access to the underlying code - quite happy to pay though!

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What are you looking to do? NSharingServices are available via declares if you just wanna let the user post stuff.

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Its for a utility app for my own needs…

Initially I’d need fairly extensive access to the Facebook SDK but if it works out it’ll extend to the Youtube and Twitter SDKs

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Did you see the Twitter examples coming with MBS Plugin?

Recently I also added SetupOAuth function to help there for CURLMBS class.

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example is here:
https://www.monkeybreadsoftware.net/example-curl-webservices-twitteroauth.shtml

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[quote=399620:@Patrick Delaney]Initially I’d need fairly extensive access to the Facebook SDK[/quote] If you can find an existing framework, you can tap into using Declares, otherwise you’re going to have to create your own Facebook code.

Google has a framework, at some point I’m going to look into that myself as Apple have made YouTube ONLY available for their applications, which means everyone else can go _____…

I have also heard rumors that other NSSharingServices will disappear in the future as the current Apple management has “gone to war” with Facebook & Twitter, over privacy. If that’s true we’ll all need to replace a framework that essentially become useless outside of China.

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[quote=399679:@Christian Schmitz]Did you see the Twitter examples coming with MBS Plugin?

Recently I also added SetupOAuth function to help there for CURLMBS class.[/quote]
Thanks, MBS Plugins would certainly help, my license expired several years ago now, other thing is I’d rather not use plugins (Chilkat or MBS) - I’d rather have full control of the code. Even for a small, personal utility app.

[quote=399697:@Sam Rowlands]If you can find an existing framework, you can tap into using Declares, otherwise you’re going to have to create your own Facebook code.

Google has a framework, at some point I’m going to look into that myself as Apple have made YouTube ONLY available for their applications, which means everyone else can go _____…[/quote]

Yeah, def looking like I’ll need to write my own code - no biggie - pretty sure I have my own oAuth2 code laying around somewhere I can bring up to date. Also, wondering if PAW could help me…