I've received a token / secret from a service using OmniAuth and can store it for users, but I'm stuck as to how to actually use these to call a service.
The closest thing I've seen to this question is here but the way he's solved that there doesn't feel right. I feel like OmniAuth likely does this all for you if you know what you're doing.
Netflix has a pretty involved auth process, so I was hoping to skirt all of this by using OmniAuth to abstract me from all of this.
Given that I have a token and secret for a user, how to use these in calling a service like Netflix?
Many thanks :)
Hey, I'm the author of the OmniAuth gem. OmniAuth is meant to be used for the authentication process. In the case of OAuth providers like Netflix, this means exchanging a request token for an access token which is then used to pull user information from the API. These one-off calls are specifically designed for each provider and are not meant to be a generic API client for the given provider.
What you can do it use OmniAuth to obtain the credentials and then use another specific library for the site itself (such as ruby-netflix or anything else, I'm not sure what the best one is) to make calls. You can retrieve the access token and secret that is obtained in the authentication dance by accessing env['omniauth.auth']['credentials'], then use those to initialize the API client.
You can also use the OAuth library directly to make these calls, but I would strongly recommend just using an existing library, it will be much faster and easier. Does all of that make sense?