Yahoo OAuth implementation has no way to work offline

Posted by Khash on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Khash
Published on 2010-03-30T13:21:51Z Indexed on 2010/03/30 13:23 UTC
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I need to download my Delicious bookmarks to a non-web application without constant user interaction. I'm using Delicious's V2 API (using oAuth) but the problem is it seems their access tokens expire after one hour.

I don't have any issues with redirecting the user to Yahoo for a one time authorization, but what is described here (http://developer.yahoo.com/oauth/guide/oauth-refreshaccesstoken.html) means I would have to refresh my access tokens all the time before they expire when the user is away.

Is this really the way they've done their oAuth implementation?

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