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Hello,

I have been asked to check the feasibility of adding social media integration to our web application. I am a newbie and I don't have great knowledge on this subject, so I thought I'd turn to this forum to get some help! The specific questions they had were along these lines:

- How its done and how complicated is it to integrate?
- What fields can be populated by logging into each social site (google, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.)
- How accurately does it prefill fields in each browser
- What would we have to look out for

I'd greatly appreciate any help! Our Web application is in Spring, if that matters.
 
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Your question is quite vague. What does 'integrate' mean? Do you need to pull information out off these sites, or do you want to publish as well? What's the use case for connecting to these sites?
 
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Stephan van Hulst wrote:Your question is quite vague. What does 'integrate' mean? Do you need to pull information out off these sites, or do you want to publish as well? What's the use case for connecting to these sites?


Sorry for being vague. The use case is just to pull information off those sites - like name, address, email, DOB etc. and prefill our web application so users of our app won't have to enter those manually.
 
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Hi!

If you're using Spring maybe you'd like to take a look at the Srping Social project:
https://projects.spring.io/spring-social/

Depending on your specific requirements you might need something else, but that project is pretty developed.

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Thank you. I looked at the Spring Social app, and it seems to me like it's more for web sites that have a user login.

To add more information, ours is a web application that lets the customer apply for some kind of credit. So, there is no login; every user is a new customer. We are just trying to see if we can connect to the user's social media and prefill some of their information to make it easier.
 
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There are APIs like "login with Google" and "login with Facebook", and you should have no problems finding information about them. I don't know where you're located, but in my part of the world, I very much doubt that people would want to use social media logins for a banking site. You might want to look into what comparable sites do before embarking on this.
 
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Tim Moores wrote:There are APIs like "login with Google" and "login with Facebook", and you should have no problems finding information about them. I don't know where you're located, but in my part of the world, I very much doubt that people would want to use social media logins for a banking site. You might want to look into what comparable sites do before embarking on this.

Yes, I have the same question myself! I know a lot of people hardly use any real data on social networks.. so, with that said, is there anything that I could use? I did look at the login with Google, and it seems it's simple enough.
 
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