How do the OAuth authentications work?

[Richard]

I've been able to get my oauth_token and oauth_token_secret successfully, but I have no clue how to use them for authentication. How would I go about doing something like retrieving a blog's followers once I have the tokens? I've tried performing a GET request without any parameters (which I knew wouldn't work but I tried just in case), and I've tried it using something like "api.tumblr.com/v2/blog/myurl.tumblr.com/followers?oauth_token=TOKEN&oauth_token_secret=SECRET" but again that didn't work.

I'm not sure if it would help anyone with responding, but I'm using C# for my application and I would really prefer to use OAuth and not xAuth.

[John Crepezzi]

To make calls that only require API Key access, you can add the consumer key in the URL

like ?api_key=<consumer_key>

For full OAuth calls, you will need to complete a full OAuth workflow to grab the user token & secret

And then use an OAuth library (1.0a) to sign the request you want to make

Hope this helps,

JC

On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Richard <blak...@gmail.com> wrote:

I've been able to get my oauth_token and oauth_token_secret successfully, but I have no clue how to use them for authentication. How would I go about doing something like retrieving a blog's followers once I have the tokens? I've tried performing a GET request without any parameters (which I knew wouldn't work but I tried just in case), and I've tried it using something like "api.tumblr.com/v2/blog/myurl.tumblr.com/followers?oauth_token=TOKEN&oauth_token_secret=SECRET" but again that didn't work.

I'm not sure if it would help anyone with responding, but I'm using C# for my application and I would really prefer to use OAuth and not xAuth.

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