BeatportOauth

A gem to make connecting to Beatport's Api using oauth_token. Beatport uses janky old Oauth 1.0, with 3 legged auth, so this gem abstracts away some of the pain.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'beatport_oauth', github: 'protonradio/beatport_oauth'

Usage

Set your API keys and set a Beatport username/password combo (username/password are needed for 3 legged oauth)

BeatportOauth.key = "fake"      # Your Beatport Api Key
BeatportOauth.secret = "fake"   # Your Beatport Secret Api Key
BeatportOauth.username = "fake" # A username for a Beatport account (for 3 legged auth)
BeatportOauth.password = "fake" # A password for a Beatport account (for 3 legged auth)

Access Token

You'll need to set an access token before making requests. Remember that access tokens expire, so you'll need to renew this every so often. You should not, however, generate a new AccessToken for each request (with 3 legged auth, 3 http requests are necessary to get an AccessToken, which is slow and will probably make Beatport mad if you generate a new AccessToken for every request you make!)

BeatportOauth.access_token = BeatportOauth.get_access_token

If you are using Rails, I would highly suggest using Rails cache for this (which is Redis or Memcached backed):

  BeatportOauth.access_token = Rails.cache.fetch('beatport_access_token', expires_in: 1.hour) { BeatportOauth.get_access_token }

(I recommend fetch, because this is the most elegant way of creating the AccessToken only when it is needed)

Making requests

Now you can easily make requests:

BeatportOauth.get('/catalog/3/tracks', { "sortBy" => 'releaseDate ASC' })

This will return a parsed Ruby Hash.

Enjoy!

Test Suite

We use Rspec with VCR for the test suite. Run the tests with:

bundle exec rspec spec

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/protonradio/beatport_oauth.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.