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Daylife is a perfect fit for our strategy of presenting the best and most tightly focused content, whether it is produced by us at USA TODAY or anywhere else on the Web. It helps us provide our readers with a full 360-degree view of a given topic, and adds depth and richness to niche areas important to our readers and advertisers.- Jeff Webber, SVP, USAToday.com
You guys have what seems like an amazingly powerful and easy to use API, we're pretty excited about playing with it and possibly integrating it with Hubdub. - Tom Griffith, Hubdub.com
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assembling signature for multiple sources
I'm having trouble with assembling my signature for a source_getArticles with multiple sources.
I've been following the instructions here:
http://cookbook.daylife.com/forum/multiple-input-values
But I get "Invalid API Credentials-2001" as soon as I try to use more than one source.
Here's the code (Ruby):
sources = [
"0bYNckA4Bxc6A",
"0a0F0VifAodow"
]
sources_signature = MD5.hexdigest(accesskey + sharedsecret + sources.join)
sources_url = "http://freeapi.daylife.com/xmlrest/publicapi/4.4/source_getArticles?accesskey=#{accesskey}&signature=#{sources_signature}#{sources.map{|s| "&source_id=#{s}"}}&limit=2"
The string being passed into my signature generator is:
0bYNckA4Bxc6A0a0F0VifAodow
The resulting URL is:
http://freeapi.daylife.com/xmlrest/publicapi/4.4/source_getArticles?accesskey=[...]&signature=[...]&source_id=0bYNckA4Bxc6A&source_id=0a0F0VifAodow&limit=2
If I use just one source everything works as expected. What am I doing wrong?
must sort sources alphabetically
Just answered my own question... The key fact I missed was:
The core input to calculate the signature is formulated by alphabetically sorting and then concatenating all the input values.