Question

I am working on consuming the Instagram API and I am stuck at step 2 of their OAuth. I have a code from their redirect back to me, but then they want me to do a post with parameters like below…

curl \
    -F 'client_id=CLIENT-ID' \
    -F 'client_secret=CLIENT-SECRET' \
    -F 'grant_type=authorization_code' \
    -F 'redirect_uri=YOUR-REDIRECT-URI' \
    -F 'code=CODE' \
    https://api.instagram.com/oauth/access_token

I am implementing this as an ASP.NET MVC 3 solution. I tried to implement the post like so…

    WebRequest request = HttpWebRequest.Create("https://api.instagram.com/oauth/access_token");
    request.Method = "POST";
    request.Headers.Add("client_id", "sdlf0982jiejfopijfp92jjiwoijf90");
    request.Headers.Add("client_secret", "39993939393939393939393939393");
    request.Headers.Add("grant_type", "authorization_code");
    request.Headers.Add("redirect_uri", "http://localhost:34962/Home/Auth");
    request.Headers.Add("code", 111111);
    var response = request.GetResponse();
    return View();

This gives me a 400 error saying that "client_id is required". I have included the client_id, but I'm clearly not implementing this correctly.

What is the "best practice" way to perform the second leg of the OAuth?

Answer 1

I got the answer from the above mentioned SO post about adding POST parameters to an HttpWebRequest. Here are the details of my implementation.

NameValueCollection parameters = new NameValueCollection();
parameters.Add("client_id", "3498wjfoi2892jf0j2ij02fjakjf2");
parameters.Add("client_secret", "392621gfdlfj2k2hf7g2lfhj2g");
parameters.Add("grant_type", "authorization_code");
parameters.Add("redirect_uri", "http://localhost:34962/Home/Auth");
parameters.Add("code", code);

WebClient client = new WebClient();
var result = client.UploadValues("https://api.instagram.com/oauth/access_token", parameters);

var response = System.Text.Encoding.Default.GetString(result);

return View("Index", (object)response);