Foursquare–part 2 of 4

After successfully connecting to Foursquare with an Web application, the problem is what to don with a Desktop application. The most simple desktop application is a Console . The first idea that I have had is to start a browser, let the user pass his credentials and retrieve data from browser.

Something like this

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string urlAuth = this.sharpSquare.GetAuthenticateUrl(urlSOA + "home/redirect4sq/" + this.thisRequest);
Process p = new Process();
p.StartInfo.FileName = getDefaultBrowser();
p.StartInfo.Arguments = urlAuth;
p.Start();

However, I have been not capable of taking data from the WebBrowser process. So the solution is this one:

The Console program open a web browser to the Foursquare web site with a redirect to http://fsq.apphb.com/ and GUID. The user enters his credentials to FourSquare site. Then Foursquare is redirecting to the http://fsq.apphb.com/  -and the http://fsq.apphb.com/ memorizes a GUID and his token. Then the Console reads from http://fsq.apphb.com/ the token ( has the GUID) and it is set.

 

 

The code looks like this:

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public void AuthenticateNewWebBrowser()
        {
            string urlAuth = this.sharpSquare.GetAuthenticateUrl(urlSOA + "home/redirect4sq/" + this.thisRequest);
            Process p = new Process();
            p.StartInfo.FileName = getDefaultBrowser();
            p.StartInfo.Arguments = urlAuth;
            p.Start();
            Thread.Sleep(5000);
            AuthenticateToken();
        }
//retrieving from website
        public void AuthenticateToken()
        {
            var newUrl = urlSOA + "api/Values/ClientToken/" + this.thisRequest;
            var code = new WebClient().DownloadString(newUrl).Replace("\"", "");
            SetAccessCode(code);
 
        }

Next time I will do code for solving same problem – but from inside the program( without needing to launch a new Process)