It depends if the social network supports OAuth. hi5 does.
See this blog post for information on how to do it: http://www.hi5networks.com/developer/2009/04/hi5-platform-update---may-2009.html On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 2:39 AM, Angelo Nicolosi <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > I want to develop a little program, written in java, that retrieve > some information from an account on a Social Network, as for instance > Hi5. Making some research, I found the OpenSocial project. > The problem is that I have not understood if OpenSocial is what I was > looking for. > From what I have seen through the examples and the articles you have > on your website, it seems that this API has been created in order to > be used by application installed on the Social Network itself. Is it > possible using the client libraries you have developed or using the > OpenSocial API in general, authenticating using OAuth two-legged > (since I would avoid the installation of an embedded browser inside my > application) and retrieve information on behalf of a given user? > Thank you in advance for your helpfulness. > Best Regards, > Angelo. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "OpenSocial Application Development" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<opensocial-api%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-api?hl=en. > > -- Paul Lindner -- [email protected] -- linkedin.com/in/plindner -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OpenSocial Application Development" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-api?hl=en.
