# SOCIAL API

INTRODUCTION
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  * This project is part of the Drupal Social Initiative
  (https://groups.drupal.org/social-initiative).

  * The Social API harmonizes social networking services in Drupal,
  providing an extensible module that allows integration of modules
  for user login, autoposting, and social widgets.

  * Social API aims to abstract parameters for communicating with various social
  networking services.

  * For a full description of the module, visit the project page:
  https://www.drupal.org/project/social_api

  * To submit bug reports and feature suggestions, or to track changes:
  https://drupal.org/project/issues/social_api


RECOMMENDED MODULES
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  * Social Auth (https://www.drupal.org/project/social_auth):
  Implements methods and templates that will be used by login-related modules.

  * Social Post (https://www.drupal.org/project/social_post):
  Provides methods to allow autoposting to social network accounts.

  * Social Widgets (https://www.drupal.org/project/social_widgets):
  Allows sub-modules to add functionality to add widgets (like buttons, embedded
  content) to node, blocks, etc.


UPDATES IN V2
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  * Added default support for PHP League OAuth2 library that allows
  authentication for OAuth 2.0 services such as Facebook, Google, and others.
  However, other libraries and authentication protocols can still be used.


MAINTAINERS
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Current maintainers:
  * gvso - https://www.drupal.org/u/gvso
  * himanshu-dixit - https://www.drupal.org/u/himanshu-dixit

Supporting organizations:

  * Google Summer of Code (https://www.drupal.org/google-summer-of-code-0)
  Google Summer of Code is a global program focused on bringing more student
  developers into open source software development. Students work on a three
  month programming project with an open source organization during their break
  from university.