Question

I am having an incredibly difficult time getting the OAuth gem working correctly for the Flickr API. I’m trying to generate a request token using this code:

user_oauth = OAuth::Consumer.new(consumer_key, consumer_secret, :site => "https://secure.flickr.com/services")
request_token = user_oauth.get_request_token(:oauth_callback => callback_url)

Whenever I run this code it throws an exception “OAuth::Unauthorized (404 Not Found)” on the call to .get_request_token.

I got my end point from: http://www.flickr.com/services/api/misc.overview.html

My OAuth gem is using the default request_token path, which should work with Flickr according to: http://www.flickr.com/services/api/auth.oauth.html#request_token I also tried using the endpoint that this link uses (http://www.flickr.com/services)

When I call .request_token_url on my OAuth::Consumer object, it returns “https://secure.flickr.com/services/oauth/request_token”, which I can access in my browser. Thinking that the flickr API might only work with GET requests, I changed the OAuth method to GET and it still didn’t work.

I’ve used this exact same code on different APIs before and it worked, so I’m not really sure what to do at this point. Any help would be appreciated!

Answer 1

I had the same problem. Request_token_url method returns right url, but I watch on true requested url by wireshark and there was http://www.flickr.com/oauth/request_token.. So it needs to move /services path from :site option into paths options.

This code works for me, now:

    consumer = OAuth::Consumer.new(key, secret, 
            :site               => "http://www.flickr.com", 
            :request_token_path => '/services/oauth/request_token', 
            :authorize_path     => '/services/oauth/authorize',
            :access_token_path  => '/services/oauth/access_token')
    request_token = consumer.get_request_token