Posts Tagged ‘api’
Highrise Authentication Token (API) How To
January 15th, 2009 • How To, Screencasts
Tags: api, api token, authentication token, highrise, howto, Progress, screencast
For Periscope Gadget to work with Highrise, a step needs to be taken in addition to supplying your username and password. As with Basecamp, an API switch needs to be flipped. In this case, the Highrise Authentication Token needs to be copied from your Highrise account and inserted into the settings for Periscope. The Token is 40 characters long and hexadecimal (numbers & letters A through F) — it’s an easy copy and paste. As always, we try to be as careful as possible when storing your sensitive information.
Here are the steps you’ll need to take, or just view the screencast below:
- Login to your Highrise account using your customized URL. It’ll look something like http://your-account.highrisehq.com/
- Click on the “My Info” link in the top right hand corner. You’ll be presented with the “User Account” tab of your own account.
- Click on “Reveal authentication token for feeds/API” which will show you a yellow highlighted 40 character long hexadecimal string.
- Copy this string to your clipboard.
- Login to your Periscope Gadget account at http://periscopegadget.com/login using your Periscope email and password.
- Add a new account by clicking on the “Add” link, or click on any of the pencils to edit a Highrise account that has already been setup.
- Paste the token from your clipboard into the field labelled “Highrise API Token”.
- Save your changes — you’re done!
Enabling API Access in Basecamp
August 31st, 2008 • 2 comments How To, Screencasts
Tags: api, howto, screencast
To allow Periscope Gadget to function, your Basecamp account needs to have API access enabled. This is really easy to enable and only requires you to log in to your Basecamp account and navigate two pages. I’ve created a screencast how-to, so have a look at that for reference as well. Here are the steps:
- Login to your own Basecamp account. Your URL will be something like http://yourdomain.updatelog.com/ or any of the 5 domains that 37 signals owns (updatelog.com, grouphub.com, clientsection.com, seework.com, projectpath.com) and you’ll need to use the username and password that you chose when you signed up with them.
- Click on the Account (Upgrade/Billing) tab.
- Scroll all the way down on the new page.
- Close to the bottom is a “Basecamp API” section. Click on the check box that is labelled “I’ve read and agree to the Basecamp terms of service…” — you should actually click on the terms of service and read them.
- Click on the button that says “Yes, please enable the Basecamp API for this account” — wait a few seconds, and voila! You’re done! Basecamp API access is enabled!
Also, be sure to checkout the screencast for a more visual walk through of how to accomplish the steps above.
