Auth Rest API

Authentication requests are responsible for a user account. It provides creating an account, changing data about it, and access it.

In this article you can read about all these requests:

1. auth/signup
2. auth/login with password & username
3. auth/login with auth_key
4. auth/getuserbyid
5. auth/updateuser
6. auth/logout
7. auth/userlist

auth/signup

Request for creating a new user account.

Request

It contains user object with standard registration information. The object "user" needs certain data to be created:

Example:

   user: {
      "fullname" : "Jon Jerry",
      "password" : "mypassword",
      "username" : "jon@gudhub.com"
   }

Response

As a result you will get an object with all user data.

{
   "user_id" : 149,
   "accesstoken" : "hkpbqelu_jt-rxatjfvulzjgfj-qizjhunonbdto",
   "username" : "jon@gudhub.com",
   "fullname" : "Jon Jerry",
   "auth_key" : "jgjgGJHGgHGJGHJBGHJGG/DKJSL934394",
   "expirydate" : 1497912166008,
   "app_init" : 3444
}

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auth/login with password & username

There are two types of login requests. The first one is with the help of password and username. It contains password and username.

Request

It contains password and username.

Example:

   password : mypassword
   username : johndow@gudhub.com

Response

In return will be an object of user data.

{ 
   "accesstoken": "zjzvgiesfiifsdkhiilfkskd33u",
   "app_init": 26749,
   "auth_key": "bMfVNFzEQX3KjqbMQ+BhnVk",
   "avatar_128": "https://gudhub.com/avatars/1578_2208_128.jpg",
   "avatar_512": "https://gudhub.com/avatars/1578_2208_512.jpg",
   "expirydate": 1674256597882,
   "fullname": "John Dow",
   "user_id": 78,
   "username": "johndow@gudhub.com"
}

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auth/login with auth_key

Request for login into an existing account.

Request

It contains the auth key.

Example:

   auth_key:
   hIHIHIUioihsbdospklmzxnHsdlkiojojojisjdnjvkbiuoajdnwjnufosfjji0045456/==

Response

As well as the first login request, this one will returns an object with user data.

{ 
   "accesstoken": "zjzvgiesfiifsdkhiilfkskd33u",
   "app_init": 26749,
   "auth_key": "bMfVNFzEQX3KjqbMQ+BhnVk",
   "avatar_128": "https://gudhub.com/avatars/1578_2208_128.jpg",
   "avatar_512": "https://gudhub.com/avatars/1578_2208_512.jpg",
   "expirydate": 1674256597882,
   "fullname": "John Dow",
   "user_id": 78,
   "username": "johndow@gudhub.com"
}

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auth/login with token

One more login request allows you to login by the valid user token.

But it can be used for one token only for 8 hours of its existence. After that, the token changes.

Request

This request only transmits an existing valid token.

Example:

   token: thog-tayjf-.k-cbeapsebnqawkphhiny-ursyqsn

Response

The current method returns an object with user data.

Note that this method returns data with a new access token that is valid for the next 8 hours.

{ 
   "accesstoken": "zjzvgiesfiifsdkhiilfkskd33u",
   "app_init": 26749,
   "auth_key": "bMfVNFzEQX3KjqbMQ+BhnVk",
   "avatar_128": "https://gudhub.com/avatars/1578_2208_128.jpg",
   "avatar_512": "https://gudhub.com/avatars/1578_2208_512.jpg",
   "expirydate": 1674256597882,
   "fullname": "John Dow",
   "user_id": 78,
   "username": "johndow@gudhub.com"
}

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auth/getuserbyid

This get request allows to get the user by his/her ID. It is automatically called when the user clicks on Sharing button. In fact, it returns the users who have permission for the application in which the request was called.

Request

The request consists of a token and the ID of the user whose object will be retrieved.

Example:

   token: thog-tayjf-.k-cbeapsebnqawkphhiny-ursyqsn
   id: 1578

Response

In response, you will get the desired user, if his/her profile exists.

{
   "avatar_128": "https://gudhub.com/avatars/1578_9032_128.jpg",
   "avatar_512": "https://gudhub.com/avatars/1578_9032_512.jpg",
   "expirydate": 0,
   "fullname": "John Dow",
   "user_id": 1578,
   "username": "johndow@gudhub.com"
}

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auth/updateuser

Request for updating data of the existing account.

Request

It contains token and user object.

Example:

   Token: prijmtwlezsxxyromyzbx_eptm.etnkhaewwp-_y

   user:{
      "user_id" : 149,
      "fullname" : "Jon Jerry",
      "username" : "jon@gudhub.com",
      "avatar": "...",
      "app_init" : 3444
   }

Response

In result will be updated user data.

{
   "user_id" : 149,
   "username" : "jon@gudhub.com",
   "fullname" : "Jon Jerry",
   "expirydate" : 0,
   "app_init" : 3445
}

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auth/logout

Request for signing out of the account.

Request

It contains only token.

Example:

   token:
   hkpbqelu_jt-rxatjfvulzjgfj-qizjhunonbdto

Response

In reply will be a success message.

Logout OK for token: 
hkpbqelu_jt-rxatjfvulzjgfj-qizjhunonbdto

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auth/userlist

This request allows to get the list of users which have keyword matches. The keyword can contain any number of signs. The user list will be retrieved if it has at least three signs.

Request

The current request sends token and keyword.

Example:

   token: thog-tayjf-.k-cbeapsebnqawkphhiny-ursyqsn
   keyword: john

Response

In response, you will get an array of matched user objects.

[{
   "avatar_128": "https://gudhub.com/avatars/6832_128.jpg",
   "avatar_512": "https://gudhub.com/avatars/6832_512.jpg",
   "expirydate": 0,
   "fullname": "John Dow",
   "user_id": 1578,
   "username": "johndow@gudhub.com"
}]

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