I'm attempting to build an application that interfaces with Pocket using PHP and JQuery
Following the steps here http://getpocket.com/developer/docs/authentication I'm stuck on "Step 2: Obtain a request token"
The documentation tells me this:
POST /v3/oauth/request HTTP/1.1
Host: getpocket.com
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8
X-Accept: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
consumer_key=1234-abcd1234abcd1234abcd1234&
redirect_uri=pocketapp1234:authorizationFinished
This makes no sense to me. How do I format this OAuth JSON POST request to use PHP and/or JQuery?
Note, I've attempted to use https://github.com/jshawl/pocket-oauth-php, but it fails on the callback and seems to use GET while the documentation explicitly states POST. I'd also like to figure this out myself so I can learn how to use OAuth for other APIs.
Thank you.
this seems to work ok:
<?php
session_start();
$redirect_uri = 'http://path/to/app/callback';
$url = 'https://getpocket.com/v3/oauth/request';
$data = array('consumer_key' => '*****', 'redirect_uri' => $redirect_uri);
// use key 'http' even if you send the request to https://...
$options = array(
'http' => array(
'header' => "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8",
'method' => 'POST',
'content' => http_build_query($data),
),
);
$context = stream_context_create($options);
$result = file_get_contents($url, false, $context);
$request_token = str_replace('code=','',$result);
$_SESSION['request_token'] = $request_token;
header("Location: https://getpocket.com/auth/authorize?request_token=$request_token&redirect_uri=$redirect_uri");
die();
?>
After which I use the request_token in the session to get my access token in a similar way.