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Add a Log in with Facebook button so that Facebook will be responsible for authentication please.

Edit 2: took this down due to Facebook authentication issues. Apologies for sending out a half-baked product, but thanks for all the feedback!

Creator here! I realize that you have to input your Facebook username and password, but this is the only way to make it work so far, since we can't get Tinder app tokens. If we used the regular Facebook API, it would fail the URL test. After the initial authentication, the server only works as passive proxy for traffic to Tinder. If there's another way, let me know, and I'll gladly implement it.

Edit: the source code is available to view at https://github.com/pxpeterxu/tinderwick. It's a bit messy, since this was a quick hack.

Run it locally like http://tinderplusplus.com/ or make it a chrome extension and it should work.

Edit: alternatively, make it open source so we can see you're not doing anything sketchy with my facebook password.

Edited original, but the code is now available at https://github.com/pxpeterxu/tinderwick

providing facebook username/password doesn't seem like a good idea :)

Yet some people do it without thinking twice.

I wonder what's the reason behind asking the user for their credentials instead of using whatever Facebook API available for authentication?

Either way, count me out.

Creator here! I'm really sorry about having to do this, but this is the only way to make it work so far, since we can't get Tinder app tokens; after the initial authentication, the server only works as passive proxy for traffic to Tinder. If there's another way, let me know, and I'll gladly implement it.

let us run it locally?

This doesn't work with a web application, as we need to request a token directly from the FB API which would check for the URL to match the approved URLs for Tinder.

http://tinderplusplus.com/

Can you not have "Facebook login" i.e. you don't see the auth on your end... ? FB handles all the auth.

No you can't. You need tinders privileged token. If you could get that with an arbitrary Facebook login then every app you use would be vulnerable.

Uh, can you say phishing website? Yea, let me just give you my Facebook password and username.

Tried, gave me an error with login, facebook log me out and then changed my password.. s

Stole my username and password! Someone tried to login using Firefox.

OMFG stop fucking hijacking my fucking back button.

Yeah this alone is enough for me to refuse to use something.

Someone signed up for an HN account, squatted the name just to get a point across. Hat tip to you sir, well played.

Sorry about that; I just fixed this.

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