July 2017
Beginner to intermediate
312 pages
7h 27m
English
Application authentication is a form of authentication where the application makes API requests on its own behalf, without a user context. API calls are often rate limited per API method, but the pool each method draws from belongs to your entire application at large, rather than from a per-user limit.
For the purposes of social media analysis, we will use in most cases application authentication by creating an application on each social media platform that will query the related API.
There are several steps that are required to put in place a client with OAuth authorization:
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