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ricbra / php-discogs-api

PHP 5.4 Implementation of the Discogs API
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Consider modifying example to include inline auth #43

Closed brycetryan closed 6 years ago

brycetryan commented 7 years ago

Discogs also supports authentication via inline auth in the http request. For my own purposes I didn't need full OAuth and struggled to get it working, so inline auth via the personal access token was enough to get the data I needed.

As per the developer doc a request like this works, replacing the token with your personal access token: curl "https://api.discogs.com/database/search?q=Nirvana&token=abcxyz123456"

You can add additional defaults when creating the client, or modify the php-discogs-api\lib\Discogs\ClientFactory.php defaults section to include the below to add the token to every request. 'query' => ['token' => 'YOURTOKENHERE']

This may help others wishing to deploy your code but not needing full OAuth :)

ricbra commented 7 years ago

Hi @swinkl3

Thanks for the suggestion, I was not aware of this functionality in Discogs. As you seem to have it working, would you mind to open a PR and add this to the README.md as alternative to the OAuth authentication?