Instagram Missing InstagramScope Enum options about skybrud.social

[inovacode]

Oh . . . found it. You have each social network separated into a separate repo. https://github.com/abjerner/Skybrud.Social.Instagram

Would you like me to make the changes and submit a pull request? Or would you rather make the changes?

[inovacode]

It looks like the latest Instagram code does support a scope collection GetAuthorizationUrl(string state, InstagramScopeCollection scope). Maybe the nuget package is not up to date with GitHub and that's why I'm not getting that in my dll?

[abjerner]

@inovacode It is a little complicated.

In the past, the package has been released as single package named Skybrud.Social containing both some core functionality as well as the implementation for each service. This has been the case all the way up to v0.9.4.1 (which is the latest stable release).

Since v0.9.4.1 was released, I've been working on improving the codebase. This will eventually be released as v1.0, but the code is now split into multiple packages. There will now be a Skybrud.Social.Core package, and then a package for each implementation. Eg. if you need to integrate with the Instagram API, you simply install the Skybrud.Social.Instagram package, for the Facebook Graph API you install the Skybrud.Social.Facebook package and so forth. My work towards v1.0 is still not complete, so it is currently in beta.

If you fine playing around with beta releases, you try installing Skybrud.Social.Instagram v1.0.0-beta1 package, which has the updated code. As far as I remember, I haven't encountered any issues, but still keep in mind that this is beta code.

If you're more into the using latest stable, you can have a look at the v0.9.x branch. The latest commit in that branch corresponds with the commit that the release for v0.9.4.1 is based on.

I the above makes sense, and it haven't mumbled too much ;)

[inovacode]

I follow exactly what you're saying. I've been exploring your new repos in Beta and like what I see. Getting an error when updating nuget packages and building the Core project.

NuGet Package restore failed for project Skybrud.Social: Unable to find version '1.0.0-alpha2' of package 'Skybrud.Social.Core'..

No worries though, I'm going to stick with the stable version for now but looking forward to the new and improved Skybrud.Social libraries. For now, I can always make a straight HTTP call and serialize the Json response manually for the endpoints that aren't supported. Not a big deal.

Thanks for all your work with this. If our startup is a big success, I'll send you a $$$ contribution. :-)

[abjerner]

@inovacode I will check whether I've messed something up with the beta releases.

Anyways, I hand't thought about this yesterday, but the GetAuthorizationUrl method really just returns the authorization URL - it doesn't make any calls to the Instagram API. So you could just generate the authorization URL manually like this:

string authorizationUrl = String.Format(
    "https://api.instagram.com/oauth/authorize/?client_id={0}&redirect_uri={1}&response_type=code&state={2}&scope={3}",
    HttpUtility.UrlEncode(client.ClientId),
    HttpUtility.UrlEncode(client.RedirectUri),
    HttpUtility.UrlEncode(state),
    HttpUtility.UrlEncode("public_content+follower_list")
);

Then when you need to authenticate the user, simply redirect him/her to authorizationUrl ;)

[inovacode]

Perfect. Thanks for your help!