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Matt
Matt

Reputation: 107

SimpleAuth not returning Instagram response

I have been trying to create an iOS app with SimpleAuth to authenticate Instagram.

In my AppDelegate.swift I have:

SimpleAuth.configuration()["instagram"] = ["client_id": "MY-CLIENT-ID", SimpleAuthRedirectURIKey: "MY-REDIRECT-URL"]

(Obviously inserting the client ID and redirect URI where needed)

And in my ViewController.swift I have:

    @IBAction func instagramAuthenticate(sender: AnyObject) {

    SimpleAuth.authorize("instagram", options: ["scope" : ["likes"]], completion: {
        (responseObject : AnyObject!, error : NSError!) -> Void in

        println("\(responseObject)")
    })
}

For some reason when the user authorizes my app, the responseObject appears to return 'nil'. Possible meaning something went wrong.

I am relatively new to Swift/iOS and am not sure what I have done incorrectly. Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 349

Answers (1)

Matt
Matt

Reputation: 107

Turned out my redirect URI was the reason it was returning nil. I changed it and everything worked perfectly! Thanks to HorseT in the comments above.

Edit: More in-depth answer below

All the following information can be found here.

Firstly, you must configure Instagram in your AppDelegate.swift

//Instagram Confifuration
    SimpleAuth.configuration()["instagram"] = ["client_id": "YOUR-CLIENT-ID", SimpleAuthRedirectURIKey: "myApp://Auth/instagram"]

Make sure the SimpleAuthRedirectURIKey is equal to that in your app settings on the instagram developers page.

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Next you need to authorize the user.

SimpleAuth.authorize("instagram", options: ["scope" : ["basic", "comments", "likes", "relationships"]], completion: {
(responseObject : AnyObject!, error : NSError!) -> Void in
if (responseObject != nil) {
    var instagramResponse = responseObject as! NSDictionary
    var accessToken : String = instagramResponse["credentials"]!["token"] as! String
    println(accessToken)
} else {
    println(error.localizedDescription)
}
}

This simply gets the response and prints the accessToken.

From here on you can access endpoints to retrieve further data.

Hopefully this helps!

Upvotes: 1

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