FreshBooks is a cloud-based accounting software service designed for owners of the types of small client-service businesses that send invoices to clients and get paid for their time and expertise. The FreshBooks API is an interface for accessing FreshBooks account data using HTTP and XML.
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php curl header
I'm trying to wrap my head around using cURL with the freshbooks API. It has two ways of authentication: OpenAuth and token based. I'm trying to use the token based method. I've used cURL before but my authentication credentials have always been in…

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FreshBooks API Libraries
I am new to FreshBooks (not only the API) and I want to use it for some automatically generated invoices. I was trying to run some of the source code examples (the PHP and JS libraries in…

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how to use freshbooks api in windows phone 7?
I am making app using freshbooks api in windows phone 7, I got problem when I add api link to add services reference, it ask for username and password, but when I enter username and password its ask again. can anyone tell me how to add api link to…

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How to get data from Freshbooks API via PHP
Hi I am new to Freshbooks and I want something very simple.
I want my customer to enter either email or firstname and lastname into fields and I want my php code to search into my Freshbook account if I have that customer if I do I want my form to…

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How to get to invoice link in invoices api
I am interested to have a invoice link/pdf from the api which returns the invoice using new freshbooks api endpoint https://api.freshbooks.com/accounting/account//invoices/
Even including direct_links I am unable to get the…

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How create client in whmcs when a new client is created in freshbooks?
I want to make a client in WHMCS when a new client is added to FreshBooks. The reverse I have done successfully. Basically I want to sync clients from FreshBooks to WHMCS. Where is the webhook topic in new FreshBooks API?

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Freshbooks API - Global Project ID
I'm integrating Freshbooks with an application at my company and am accessing the Freshbooks API. We have a few developers that work at our company. I'm finding that even if several developers are all assigned to the same Project on Freshbooks,…

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ChronoMate: why can't I see my projects?
Once I authorized the ChronoMate app with FreshBooks, I could still not see my client's project in the list.
I made sure that the project was assigned to the client under the
Clients tab.
I made sure that the staff member (the one authorized in the…

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Send Contacts to Freeshbooks using PHP
Is there any way to send contacts(Name,address,Phn etc) to Freshbook using PHP ? I Am using a Form to get details from the user and i need to create a "client" in freshbook using this form field values . Is it possible ?

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Bytes and base64 formatting (Python3)
My scripting skills are very basic. I'm trying to adapt a Python 2 snippet I found on here to Python 3.
I'm having difficulty formatting this line (I understand it needs a bytes-object but can't get it to work).
headers["Authorization"] = "Basic…

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Issues connecting to OAuth2 API from Node.js/Javascript?
I am trying to connect to the Freshbooks API using OAuth2 and I'm not sure why it is not working. https://www.freshbooks.com/api/authentication
I started using the simple-oauth2 library: https://github.com/lelylan/simple-oauth2 so I created the…

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How to get an access token using the latest (alpha) version of FreshBooks API
I want to get an access token. I used the following code which is the same as in the documentation of the latest version of FreshBooks but it gives me an error.
if(!empty($_GET['code']) && isset($_GET['code']))
{
$code=$_GET['code'];
$curl =…

jasneet bhatia
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What are the API Calls to create the Credit Memo in freshbooks?
I am unable to find the API Calls to create the credit memo in freshbooks, I will really appreciate if anybody give me a link for credit memo API Calls.
I have already searched for the API here with no luck…

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How to pass a variable taken from route handler into passport-freshbooks strategy's middleware definition?
I'm using a passport-freshbooks strategy, which is like pretty much like any other strategy, except I think it's not authored properly (if I'm not missing anything). I've found that you need to pass a variable to its middleware in its definition…

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UrlFetchApp Authentication failed Freshbooks
So I am trying to communicate with the freshbooks api by making the sample request detailed on the developers page of freshbooks (http://developers.freshbooks.com/). We are doing token-based authentication as opposed to using OAuth.
I have my code…

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