Slide Upload with SlideShare API and PHP cURL

slideshare-upload.php

<?php
//user provided settings
$apikey = 'API-KEY';
$secret = 'SECRET';
$username = 'USERNAME';
$password = 'PASSWORD';
$title = "YOUR-TITLE";
$file = rawurlencode('URL-TO-FILE');
$public = "Y";

$ts = time(); //unix timestamp
$hash = sha1($secret.$ts); //SHA1 (sharedsecret + timestamp)

$postdata = 'username='.$username.'&password='.$password.'&upload_url='.$file.'&slideshow_title='.$title.'&make_src_public='.$public.'&api_key='.$apikey.'&ts='.$ts.'&hash='.$hash;


//cURL POST call with SSL
$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,"https://www.slideshare.net/api/2/upload_slideshow");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postdata);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

//execute
$output = curl_exec($ch);
 
if ($output === FALSE) {
  echo "cURL Error: " . curl_error($ch);
} else {
	var_dump($output);
}
 
curl_close($ch);
?>

Find out more here: http://techslides.com/automate-slideshare-creation-with-javascript-and-apis

Do we need to enter our password in hashed code?

Facing an Error : string(145) " Failed User authentication "

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SlideShareServiceError>
  <Message ID="25">API uploads are no longer supported</Message>
</SlideShareServiceError>