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Updating Meetup API Call #27

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updating the meetup api to only show NodeDC meetups.
Mar 9, 2015
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updating to work with api key via environment variable.
Mar 9, 2015
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions routes/api/meetup.js
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Expand Up @@ -7,10 +7,10 @@ var request = require('request');

exports.meetups = function (req, res) {
'use strict';
var url = 'http://api.meetup.com/2/events?status=upcoming&order=time&limited_events=False&group_urlname=node-dc&desc=false&member_id=26710252&offset=0&format=json&page=20&fields=&sig_id=26710252&sig=f9a8c7e4076e5ed5825f06378a855415af3722a9';
var url = 'https://api.meetup.com/2/events?offset=0&format=json&limited_events=False&group_urlname=node-dc&photo-host=public&page=20&fields=&order=time&desc=false&status=upcoming&sig_id=26710252&sig=dc51b92626c66cdedabf20d5c39aceb4720eb70a';
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Are these sig parameters secrets?

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@adunkman I am not really sure... might be, but that is the test URL they give me. I will do some more research and see what's actually secrete if anything.

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secrete… gross. :)

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This is what a signed API url is:

Similar to OAuth signing, this method of authentication certifies that a request was approved by a particular user. Unlike OAuth-signed requests, key-signed requests may be reused and recycled as long as their corresponding API key is valid. If a signed URL is released to the public, any application can use it to interact with Meetup as if it had that API key; the difference is that it can not change definitive parameters or use the signature against other API methods.

We can use an API key as well, so maybe we should move it to an environment variable. Thoughts?

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Yeah, we should probably move to using our API key from an environmental variable, since somebody could hammer that URL and cause our API key to be throttled/banned.

But, that sounds like a lovely problem for Future Josh and Future Andrew. Created #29.

request.get(url, function (error, response, body) {
if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {
res.json(JSON.parse(body));
}
});
};
};