22 May, 2015
When I first started working at PMG I was immediately given the task of writing a piece of software that allowed us to upload Facebook audience data via a command-line tool. The issue? Facebook’s login uses OAuth2 authentication in order for you to access their APIs. This requires a server to handle redirect URLs which contain tokens needed to login and a web browser to accept the permissions. Both of these are very limited in a command line utility that is supposed to be small and portable.