Downloading public details of users as a guest

[Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni]

Gabor Szabo wrote:

> That's Interesting.
> 
> On one hand that API requires the cooperation of the organizers to add
> the API key to act.ini,
> on the other hand I could just fetch the act.ini of YAPC::EU so maybe
> anyone can actually see
> and use the key. Well, unless that key is the public pair of a private key.
> I was actually looking for something like the timetable.ics that
> anyone can download.

It's a simple shared secret; the handler just checks if the key exists in the config:
» https://github.com/book/Act/blob/master/lib/Act/Handler/WebAPI.pm#L45

And yes, you can define it in you local act.ini

> I tried to configure the API key for the ILPW2013 but it seems my svn
> commits are not deployed
> to the live site. Is something broken on the act server or am I doing
> something wrong?


No, that's normal behavior: closed conference only get svn-updated once per day, at midnight.

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Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni

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