Hi all, I am wondering how I would go about connecting to multiple social networks on the user side, so our Bubble app can send posts to multiple connected channels similar to how Buffer works. I.e. the user would connect their Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn etc accounts to our Bubble app in their us…

You would have to handle the oauth process yourself using the api connector, instead of using bubble’s native oauth handler. This will allow you to get a token that will let you make calls to those services on the user’s behalf. It also means you have to worry more about keeping the user’s data and …

Thanks. Wrt to keeping the tokens safe, can it be stored as a hash in Bubble db?

I touched on this a bit here: [image] OAuth2 User-Agent Flow token extraction APIs If you’re going to store a long term (non-expiring) access token in the database, I would recommend that you encrypt the token at rest and decrypt it only when you want use it, e.g when mak…

Hello Reece i am having the same difficulties, i tried with the api connector while it not working. Do you have any solutions? I would like to have Facebook Twitter and Instagram connected to one Bubble account. -Ren

Hi Ren, Unfortunately we didn’t find a solution using Oauth, we ended up building our own setup to allow this using Auth0

You can have your own approved app at each network. You’ll need submit for approval an app per social network, which can include submitting videos, scope permissions, and an audit review. After you obtain approval, you can then built against each networks API to post. Please be sure to follow the di…

Hey @gbourne that’s a fantastic solution! I only wish @NigelG and I had that plugin when we were building SendPilot, as we dealt with those networks separately. Does it allow end users to connect their own accounts using Oauth to build something like Buffer/Hootsuite, or do the API creds have to be…

Good question. It allows you to have each of your users/clients connect their social accounts on their own. You can then post on their behalf via the API.

Did you happen to use webhooks for instagram, Facebook etc?

Hi there, We use Pathfix now for all social networks, it’s a great solution. Reece

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gevestobs September 23, 2018, 11:46pm 5

I touched on this a bit here:

I make an api call to decrypt the tokens whenever I want to use it.

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