📅 2024-08-29 — Session: Integrated Mercado Libre API for Price Monitoring
🕒 02:35–02:55
🏷️ Labels: Api Integration, Mercado Libre, Oauth 2.0, Price Monitoring
📂 Project: Business
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM
Session Goal:
The session aimed to integrate and configure the Mercado Libre API for monitoring price fluctuations as part of a value investing strategy.
Key Activities:
- Implemented error handling for API responses using Python’s
requests.get()function. - Explored OAuth 2.0 authorization processes for accessing the Mercado Libre API, focusing on both user and application-only authorization.
- Planned the use of Mercado Libre’s API for price monitoring to identify investment opportunities, including steps for registering an application and managing access tokens.
- Generated ideas for app names and descriptions tailored to investment and price monitoring on Mercado Libre.
- Configured secure URL callbacks for receiving notifications from Mercado Libre and discussed the importance of redirect URIs in OAuth 2.0.
- Provided guidelines for using the Mercado Libre API from a local environment, including redirect URI configurations using tools like ngrok.
Achievements:
- Successfully outlined the process for integrating Mercado Libre API with robust security and error handling measures.
- Developed a comprehensive understanding of the OAuth 2.0 flow and its application in Mercado Libre API integration.
Pending Tasks:
- Finalize the implementation of the price monitoring logic and ensure all security configurations are in place.