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End-User Authentication

Consumers must get permission from both the End-User and Photobucket to access private data for a user or to write data to a user's resources. Consumers must get the same permissions to work with group albums. Like personal albums, uploads and edits can only be performed in a group album after the user is logged in, and the user can only act on media or groups to which that user has contributed or owns.

Photobucket has implemented the OAuth authentication method to allow you to get these permissions, and you can use web or direct authentication. See Consumer Authentication for the specifics of signing a request. See Web Authentication and Direct Authentication for details about the types of authentication.

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Published 7-May-09. See developer.photobucket.com for additional resources.