Oauth is the authentication service used by companies like Google and Twitter to protect their API’s.
update 6/2014: For current working examples, see Internet sensors projects: https://reactivemusic.net/?p=5859
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A wrapper around curl to support OAuth 2.0: https://github.com/fireteam/curlish
The Google oauth 2.0 tutorial for devices – note: there is a local example in Max teaching examples: google-oauth-readme.txt: https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OAuth2ForDevices
How Oauth works.