FatSecret Platform API Documentation

Profile - Authentication: Create Profile

Description

Creates a new profile and returns the oauth_token and oauth_secret for the new profile. The token and secret returned by this method are persisted indefinitely and may be used in order to provide profile-specific information storage for users including food and exercise diaries and weight tracking.

The response is a newly allocated oauth_token and associated oauth_secret which should be stored and re-used to provide ongoing API services on behalf of a user.

The results from this call should be saved and subsequently used to provide ongoing storage to users of your site or service. You are obliged to ensure that the values are held securely and to not disclose any oauth_secret values. You should maintain the relationship between your users and the token and secret values you allocate for them.

In addition to creating profiles for your own users, you can also use the full 3-legged OAuth provided by FatSecret.com to attain an access token for a profile that is linked to a user account on FatSecret.com. For more information click here.

Parameters

All

NAME	TYPE	REQUIRED	DESCRIPTION
method	String	Required	MUST be "profile.create"
user_id	String	Required	You can set your own ID for the newly created profile if you do not wish to store the auth_token and auth_secret
format	String	Optional	The desired response format. Valid response formats are "xml" or "json" (default value is "xml").

Response

The only storable values returned by this call are auth_token and auth_secret.

Each profile element contains information as follows:

NAME	TYPE	DESCRIPTION
auth_token	String	Oauth key
auth_secret	String	Oauth secret key

Example Response

Example 1:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<profile xmlns="http://platform.fatsecret.com/api/1.0/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://platform.fatsecret.com/api/1.0/ http://platform.fatsecret.com/api/1.0/fatsecret.xsd">
  <auth_token>639aa3c886b849d2811c09bb640ec2b3</auth_token>
  <auth_secret>cadff7ef247744b4bff48fb2489451fc</auth_secret>
</profile>

Example 1:

{
  "profile": {
    "auth_secret": "cadff7ef247744b4bff48fb2489451fc",
    "auth_token": "639aa3c886b849d2811c09bb640ec2b3"
  }
}

Error Codes

CODE	TYPE	DESCRIPTION
2	OAuth 1.0	Missing required oauth parameter: '<details>'
3	OAuth 1.0	Unsupported oauth parameter: '<details>'
4	OAuth 1.0	Invalid signature method: '<details>'
5	OAuth 1.0	Invalid consumer key: '<details>'
6	OAuth 1.0	Invalid/expired timestamp: '<details>'
7	OAuth 1.0	Invalid/used nonce: '<details>'
8	OAuth 1.0	Invalid signature: '<details>'
9	OAuth 1.0	Invalid access token: '<details>'
106	Parameter	Invalid ID: '<details>'