Flickr Authentication requesting oauth_token

  • Resolved motodan

    (@motodan)


    1 year, 5 months ago

    Hello, I currently have a google photos section of Photonic and with the Google API issue want to start using Flickr instead.
    I have generated a Flickr API and Secret, and saved these in the Flickr section of the plugin.
    When I go to the Authentication Tab and click on the button to generate the Access Token for Flickr I receive the error on the following link relating to oauth.
    https://www.flickr.com/services/oauth/authorize?oauth_token=&perms=read
    Flickr’s notes refer to “Flickr is supporting (Yahoo! ID, Google ID, Facebook). Flickr’s OAuth flows work for web-applications, desktop apps and mobile applications as well.”
    https://www.flickr.com/services/api/auth.oauth.html
    Do you have any tutorials to generate the Access Token (server side) and Access Token Secret (server side) for Flickr ?
    I have a Google oauth for Google Photos but I’m not sure how to set this for Flickr or if I should use a separate oauth.

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  • Plugin Author Sayontan Sinha

    (@sayontan)

    1 year, 5 months ago

    The process here should work without any intervention. There are no special steps to obtain the access token, as the process takes care of it end-to-end.

    If you see the first link you pasted, the oauth_token there is blank. When Photonic runs the authentication, this gets automatically populated, so a correct URL would look like https://www.flickr.com/services/oauth/authorize?oauth_token=<a valid token>&perms=read. In your case, the valid token is missing. This means that something on your WP site is interfering with the procurement of the token. It is impossible for me to say what that might be – it could be a security plugin, or a configuration made by your hosting provider.

    One approach you might want to try is to generate the token and secret from a local WP installation (something that you control fully) – if you are successful, those can be reused on other sites.

    Mirri360

    (@mirri360)

    1 year, 5 months ago

    I have the same problem. I got my key and secret from Flickr, put it in the proper spots in Phototonic, saved, then did the authentication. I got “Oops! There’s no <q>oauth_token</q> parameter.“. The URL is https://www.flickr.com/services/oauth/authorize?oauth_token=&perms=read. It says:

    An external application has requested your login credentials and permission to perform certain actions on your behalf, but has failed to include all the required data.

    You don’t really need to know what this means, except that you can’t use the application until this problem is fixed. (It’s a third-party problem, not a Flickr problem.)

    I really want it to work! It has been working on another my my websites with a difference Flickr account for a long time and I love it!

    Plugin Author Sayontan Sinha

    (@sayontan)

    1 year, 5 months ago

    @mirri360 – My response is the same as the first thread. This is most likely happening due to a hosting configuration, and you might want to check with your hosts if they are blocking anything.

    You can also try out the suggestion of getting the token from the older site where the token generation is working fine.

    Mirri360

    (@mirri360)

    1 year, 5 months ago

    It was a Flickr issue. It worked fine the next day. Thanks for your quick reply. I love Photonic!

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