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iOS Build a Restaurant Reviews App Authorization With Third Party Libraries Authorizing with the OAuth2 Framework

Posted by Hardik Pansuria
Hardik Pansuria
1,449 Points

Yelp doesn't OAuth token url anymore

To authenticate API calls with the API Key, set the Authorization HTTP header value as Bearer API_KEY. how to implement this instead of token url

1 Answer

Nathan F.
Nathan F.
30,773 Points
Nathan F.
Nathan F.
30,773 Points

Hi Hardik, here's a simple implementation that you can adjust to your needs. You can get your API token from the 'Manage App' section of Yelp Developer's site. Pasan's aware of this change and there will likely be an update to reflect this soon.

let apiToken = "veryLongSecretAPIToken"
let bearerString = "Bearer \(apiToken)"

let endpointURL = URL(string: "https://api.yelp.com/v3/businesses/someBusiness")!
let yelpRequest = URLRequest(url: endpointURL)
yelpRequest.addValue(bearerString, forHTTPHeaderField: "Authorization")
Deysha Rivera
Deysha Rivera
5,088 Points

Thanks so much for this. Unfortunately, still no update to this video over a year later.