Interesting topics for different app ideas and implementations using Patreon API

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Collected here are various threads with good insight and discussion on how to do things like connecting offline apps to Patreon API, or allowing users to use their own creator tokens to connect a distributed offline/online software to Patreon. You can use some of these ideas in your integrations

Concealing API key for offline apps?

Hey! I’m Sam, I make projects like the Desktop Goose. I’d love to integrate patreon into my projects by allowing users to connect their accounts using the OAuth API and providing specific features/experiences conditional on their support. Seems like a pretty awful idea to just plop the secret key and do the authentication client-side, given how easy it is to decompile. I also have zilch web experience. So total newbie question: Is there a good possible way to securely make a microservice to a…

Implementing OAuth within my game itself

So currently, my goal is to implement a check to make sure someone is pledged from within my game. Reason being (obviously), people pledge to me, download my game, then refund. I read up on OAuth, but my only problem is I wouldn’t know how to implement that from within an exe file (godot game engine). Because from what I read, it was originally made to be used with a website, but how would I do the same thing, but from within my game? (also I have no experience with this sort of thing, all my ex…

Connect creators` accounts to platform with personal subscribe option

Hello, everybody, My first post here, I truly hope it`s not a duplicate, but I have not found what I was looking for. So I am creating a platform which will have two types of users - creators and regular users. They will all be registered and connected through Patreon accounts. The creators must have their Patreon creator accounts connected and when posting they must be able to lock their own posts according to their tiers and rules. When a user wants to unlock the content of that particular cr…

How to check if user is active patron of specific account?

I’m trying to check a user’s patron_status status for a specific Patreon account based on the response object to an identity request that includes an array of memberships. Each membership in the array looks something like this (in JSON); { "attributes": { "currently_entitled_amount_cents": 0, "last_charge_date": "2020-01-01T22:09:27.000+00:00", "last_charge_status": "Paid", "lifetime_support_cents": 25000, "patron_status": "active_patron", "pledge_relationship_start": …

MCLink - Automatic Minecraft Server Whitelist Management

What is it? MCLink is a service that allows you to link your Minecraft account and a third party account, like Patreon, Twitch or GameWisp. The primary purpose is to allow people to do automatic whitelist management on servers. A bit of history Way back in 2013 I created a system to allow Twitch subscribers to automatically log in to a Minecraft server run by a streamer, if they had the same usernames. Then I added a textbox to allow players to enter their own usernames. This system then ev…

And additionally, you can always use the WordPress plugin as an example to copy various bits of logic - its oauth and api classes have fleshed out implementations of the needed login/authorization functions and api connection. Its setup wizard (mainly in Patreon_Wordpress class and Patreon_Routing class) uses the client creator endpoint at Patreon api, which allows a non-technical user to just connect an app to Patreon by creating a client in two clicks - without filling out any details for an app and so on. That may be useful for those of you who distribute online/offline software which allow creators to integrate 3rd party apps with their Patreon account to offer patron benefits or other features.