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API Integration for Business

How to integrate Ayrshare's API for multiple users.

Allow Your Users to Connect Their Social Media Accounts

An important part of the Business Plan integration consists of creating new profile accounts in Ayrshare for your users or clients and allowing your users to link their social networks. Each of your users is set up as an Ayrshare user profile. A user profile gets one connection to each social network.

Example Workflow

A common workflow is to make two endpoint calls from your app or platform. 1) create a new Ayrshare profile and 2) generate the JWT URL to display the social linkage page to your user.
Workflow of connecting user profiles
Account Linking Workflow
After your user links their social media accounts you will be able to post to and manage their accounts via the API.

Create an Ayrshare User Profile

During your onboarding as a Business Plan client, you'll receive a personalized integration package with important set up and domain information, example endpoint calls, and more. Please check with your primary account holder for this information.
You may also retrieve or reset the integration package in the dashboard in the API page. Be sure to first switch to your Primary Profile.
Ayrshare Integration Package
When a new user registers with your system or when your client clicks the social network link on in your app, create a new Ayrshare profile account by calling the /profiles/create-profile RESTful endpoint, or using the NPM or PyPi packages.
Returned from this call will be your user's PROFILE KEY. This key will be used to post on your user's behalf and to mange their account. You should store it in a secure location.
If you want to create client profiles via the Developer Dashboard see the overview:

Single Sign On with JWT Authentication

Ayrshare uses a JWT (JSON Web Token) to authenticate your user and perform Single Sign On to the social linking page. A JWT is a secure mechanism for passing digitally signed information and allows Ayrshare to authenticate you and your user.
Your app will construct a JWT comprised of your API Key, user Profile Key, and a few other parameters. This will be signed with your 1024 bit private key. The JWT token is valid for 5 minutes.

Generate a JWT

Your app will construct a JWT comprised of your API Key, user Profile Key, and a few other parameters. This will be signed with your 1024 bit private key.
Please use the /profiles/generateJWT endpoint to have Ayrshare create the token and social linking URL. Open the social linking URL in a new tab or window, allowing your users to easily link their social networks.
Please see below for an example using the endpoint.
Alternatively, if you have your client's social media credentials (username/password) you can link their social network yourself using Ayrshare's Developer Dashboard.

Automatic Logout of a Profile Session

How to Automatically Logout of the Active Profile Session
If a profile is already logged in, sending a different profile's JWT will not switch profiles. This is done to make the experience faster for already logged in users. When testing, log out of the current profile before making an SSO call with a different profile. Signed in profiles remain signed in until explicitly logged out.
However, if you have a business need, such as your users have multiple profiles they often access, or you want to test, include the URL parameter in the SSO URL:
logout=true
For example:
https://profile.ayrshare.com?domain=[domain id]&jwt=[jwt token]&logout=true
This forces a logout and then logs in the new profile.
Please also see the /generateJWT endpoint to automatically add the logout.
Warning: Using automatic logout causes a performance delay for your user, so unless you need it, we suggest not forcing a logout and not using it in production.

Opening & Closing the Social Linking URL

The Social Accounts page has an "Close" button that closes the window and returns your user to your site.

Opening the Social Linking URL

When you open the social linking URL, we recommend using JavaScript's window.open() function instead of an anchor href. The "Close" button uses JavaScript to close the window and most browsers only allow windows opened via a script to be closed. You can use the following sample code on your website to launch the social linkage window.
<div onclick="window.open('https://profile.ayrshare.com?domain...', '_blank')">
Link Social Networks
</div>
or
<button onclick="openNewTabAndRedirect()">Open New Tab and Redirect</button>
<script>
function openNewTabAndRedirect() {
// Open a new tab
var newTab = window.open('https://profile.ayrshare.com?domain...');
// Optional: Focus on the new tab
newTab.focus();
}
</script>
You may control the "Close' button to either redirect the social linking tab to a page of your choosing or redirect the origin opener tab/window and close the social linking tab. This can be done using the redirect parameter and adding origin=true to the query parameters of the redirect URL. Please see /generateJWT endpoint.

Redirecting When Closing

Additionally, if you want to have the Close button redirect back to your page (often useful on mobile), pass in the redirect GET parameter as a URL encoded string starting with https.
https://profile.ayrshare.com?domain=[domain id]&jwt=[jwt token]&redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fmywebsite.com
The redirect will be saved for that profile and used in subsequent SSO calls even if the redirect parameter is not passed. To reset the Close button back to close, pass the parameter redirect=null.

More Information

Please see here for more details of the user experience:
Once your user setups their social media links, you will be able to begin posting on their behalf using the /post and /profile endpoints.

Multiple Sets of Social Accounts

If your users or clients have multiple sets of social accounts, for example 2 Facebook, 2 Instagram, and 2 YouTube, you can create two User Profiles in Ayrshare and then associate the two Profile Keys with the user in your system.
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