Yahoo's Social Directory Web Service API end of life

[sunny]

Hi!

The public Social Directory API is ending its life on March 2nd, 2020. It needs to be replaced by the UserInfo Endpoint, which is OAuth 2.0 protected.

[mcohen9]

how do we fix this?

[sunny]

@mcohen9: No news from @karan-pathak so I guess that someone should fork this and update the API calls to use OAuth to fetch information about users.

@ikylin @ShalabhTripathi @NehaChopra @jindalmahima @rajatsingla @hackmdio: since you all have either watched or starred this repository, perhaps you have already adapted this on your services?

[louie728]

Does anyone have a newly updated strategy for https://api.login.yahoo.com/openid/v1/userinfo ?

[sunny]

@louie728 Forked and fixed in #4 🎉

[louie728]

Thanks @sunny appreciate that ... Do I need to setup a new app with yahoo or should my existing creds work?

[sunny]

You can keep the same credentials and just point to the fork using git:.

[louie728]

@sunny thanks. I actually didnt have openid prems on the app and yahoo doesn't allow the addition for some odd reason so I had to recreate. Thanks again..

[killondark]

Hi @sunny. I use your fork but the response have a key uid=nil and it value need for me. Can you help for me? May be use for uid sub key, what do you think?

[sunny]

Hey @killondark, maybe sub could be a good key to use. How did you use uid with the gem before? Can you try using sub from the extra params?