QuickBooks Online APIs & oauth
Hey all, I'm in the very beginning stages of setting up a couple of API calls (send via "make request" step in pipelines) to QuickBooks Online. I have searched for an example of a successful implemen...
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Thank you Jamelle!
For scope and state, is there a way to set them in the actual request body in the pipeline? I've been referencing the QBO API explorer, I wonder if they specify.
Here's my very basic question - where are you actually going to get your client id and client secret?
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Elena Larrabee
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Elena, you get the client ID and secret by logging into the Quickbooks developer portal and creating a test application it's normally here
https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/myapps
They when you go there to the development Application, it's under Keys and Credentials. I also remembered to get it to work with Postman I needed a redirect URL to postman, but I think that's just to get the auth token to use in the post request. So hopefully after a Request, we can use the JSONP Response to parse out the Auth Token that is generated to then use in another request later. But right now I am stumped on where I would put State and Scope, because I just don't know.
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Jamelle
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Ah! I didn't realize I could make it work with a sandbox application, I assumed I'd have to go through the full publication process. Thank you! I'll give it a try. I'll let you know how it goes and if I find anything out about state & scope.
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Elena Larrabee
------------------------------Ok update on our Quickbase to Quickbooks integration saga. After working with Support, there is no way we can do an OAUTH token workflow with Pipelines as it currently stands. We cannot make an OAuth Request, have it callback to Quickbase to give us the token, to then use in subsequent API calls. This is an overview what we had to do
- We created a FastAPI instance
- We created routes to do the OAuth and then be the callback to get the token
- Make functions to then post to the Estimates Model that we defined in pydantic
- Make functions to accept a Post request from a Pipeline, that will then do the whole POST to Quickbooks to create the Estimate object we need
- We are currently in process of building the models to other Quickbooks objects and are building out our workflow now
So our solution, was to build one ourselves, since it would be faster than waiting for QuickBase to support additional Quickbooks object.
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Jamelle
------------------------------Hey Jamelle, thanks so much for keeping me posted! I really appreciate it.
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Elena Larrabee
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