Log into vimeo using xAuth

Question

I try to login within my app to vimeo to upload videos, the App I created on vimeo is approved.

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Approved for the following accounts: Your account

I use AFNetworking and AFOAuth1Client (https://github.com/AFNetworking/AFOAuth1Client) but also tried AFXAuthClient (https://github.com/romaonthego/AFXAuthClient).

using AFOAuth1Client with the following code:

self.vimeoClient = [[AFOAuth1Client alloc] initWithBaseURL:[NSURL URLWithString:vimeoBaseUrl]
                                                       key:@"ClientIDHere"
                                                    secret:@"SecretHere"];
[self.vimeoClient postPath:@"/oauth/access_token"
                parameters:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:@"client_auth",@"x_auth_mode",@"myEmail",@"x_auth_username",@"myPwd",@"x_auth_password",@"write",@"x_auth_permission", nil]
                   success:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, id responseObject) {
    NSLog(@"...");
} failure:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, NSError *error) {
    NSLog(@":%@", error.description);
}];

I get this error:

VimeoTest[49559:c07] :Error Domain=AFNetworkingErrorDomain Code=-1011 "Expected status code in (200-299), got 401" UserInfo=0x75622d0 {NSLocalizedRecoverySuggestion=401 Unauthorized - Invalid signature - The oauth_signature passed was not valid., AFNetworkingOperationFailingURLRequestErrorKey=https://vimeo.com/oauth/access_token>, NSErrorFailingURLKey=https://vimeo.com/oauth/access_token, NSLocalizedDescription=Expected status code in (200-299), got 401, AFNetworkingOperationFailingURLResponseErrorKey=}

using AFXAuthClient with the following code:

//update begin
AFXAuthToken *token = [[AFXAuthToken alloc] initWithKey:@"Access token from vimeo" secret:@"Access token secret"];
[self.vimeoXClient setToken:token];
//update end

self.vimeoXClient = [[AFXAuthClient alloc] initWithBaseURL:[NSURL URLWithString:vimeoBaseUrl] 
key:@"ClientIDHere" 
secret:@"SecretHere"];
[self.vimeoXClient authorizeUsingXAuthWithAccessTokenPath:@"/oauth/access_token"
                                             accessMethod:@"POST"
                                                 username: @"myEmail"
                                                 password: @"myPwd"
                                                  success:^(AFXAuthToken *accessToken) {
                                                      NSLog(@"...");
                                                  }
                                                  failure:^(NSError *error) {
                                                      NSLog(@"error: %@", error.description);

                                                  }];

I get this Error:

2013-07-16 20:18:27.819 VimeoTest[49680:c07] error: Error Domain=AFNetworkingErrorDomain Code=-1011 "Expected status code in (200-299), got 400" UserInfo=0x7223e80 {NSLocalizedRecoverySuggestion=400 Bad Request - Missing required parameter - A required parameter was missing: oauth_token., AFNetworkingOperationFailingURLRequestErrorKey=https://vimeo.com/oauth/access_token>, NSErrorFailingURLKey=https://vimeo.com/oauth/access_token, NSLocalizedDescription=Expected status code in (200-299), got 400, AFNetworkingOperationFailingURLResponseErrorKey=}

error after updating code (setting the token):

2013-07-16 21:20:14.060 VimeoTest[52437:c07] error: Error Domain=AFNetworkingErrorDomain Code=-1011 "Expected status code in (200-299), got 401" UserInfo=0x8b245a0 {NSLocalizedRecoverySuggestion=401 Unauthorized - Permission Denied - The oauth_token passed was either not valid or has expired., AFNetworkingOperationFailingURLRequestErrorKey=https://vimeo.com/oauth/access_token>, NSErrorFailingURLKey=https://vimeo.com/oauth/access_token, NSLocalizedDescription=Expected status code in (200-299), got 401, AFNetworkingOperationFailingURLResponseErrorKey=}

anyone has any Idea what I am doing wrong?

--- UPDATE ---

using Runscope I send the following parameters

Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, compress
Authorization: OAuth oauth_nonce="63129149524659229601374074093", oauth_timestamp="1374074093", oauth_version="1.0", oauth_signature_method="HMAC-SHA1", oauth_consumer_key="MYCONSUMERKEYHERE", oauth_token="MYAPPTOKENHERE", oauth_callback="None", oauth_verifier="None", oauth_signature="lW%2BQYzwCcaDzSgoZUtvpSgLRSF4%3D"
Connection: close
Content-Length: 0
Host: vimeo-com-bbmyq45awg44.runscope.net
User-Agent: runscope/0.1
X-Forwarded-For: 54.236.210.241
X-Forwarded-Protocol: https
X-Forwarded-Ssl: on
X-Real-Ip: 54.236.210.241
X_auth_mode: client_auth
X_auth_password: MYPWDHERE
X_auth_permission: write
X_auth_username: MYUSERNAMEHERE

I still get the same response

HEADERS

Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true
Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, PUT, POST, PATCH, DELETE, OPTIONS, HEAD
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Connection: close
Content-Length: 104
Content-Type: text/plain;charset=UTF-8
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 15:14:53 GMT
Expires: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 03:14:53 GMT
Runscope-Message-Id: 7bd9d07d-d043-4486-9a19-c3572997d3e4
Server: Apache
Vary: Accept-Encoding
X-Dns-Prefetch-Control: on
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.4.14
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401 Unauthorized - Permission Denied - The oauth_token passed was either not valid or has expired.

I am really not sure if I miss some params. Is the oauth_verifier or oauth_callback needed? In my vimeo App setup I got the following:

Your Callback URL (edit) vimeoTest://success

If you are successfully receiving the message "The oauth_token passed was either not valid or has expired" then I assume you are sending your request properly. You can validate that all the headers and parameters are set successfully by using Runscope. If all of the proper headers are being sent, Vimeo has the ability to verify the token you are using. You can contacting them at via their help page. — Dashron

shelbydz shelbydz · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-22T19:18:16

I had a similar issue, and I had to manually add the oauth_callback parameter to the request. If you have a desktop app and won't be using it, set it to oob.

Log into vimeo using xAuth

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