C# Log in by code to social network site

Question

I have read several posts about login in to sites that needs email and password, but i couldn't find a solution about logging in to a specific site called geni.com..is there a way

        CookieContainer cookie;
        string user = "somemail@somehost.com";
        string pass = "123456";

        string formUrl = "http://www.geni.com/login/";
        string formParams = String.Format("profile_username={0}&password={1}", "MYUSERNAME", "MYPASS");
        string cookieHeader;
        HttpWebRequest myWebRequest;
        WebResponse myWebResponse; 
        String URL = textBox1.Text;
        myWebRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("formUrl");
        myWebRequest.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
        myWebRequest.Method = "POST";
        string login = string.Format("go=&Fuser={0}&Fpass={1}", user, pass);

        byte[] postbuf = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(login);


         myWebResponse = myWebRequest.GetResponse(); //Returns a response from an Internet resource
        cookieHeader = myWebResponse.Headers["Set-cookie"];
        cookie = myWebRequest.CookieContainer = new CookieContainer();
        myWebRequest.CookieContainer = cookie;
        Stream streamResponse = myWebResponse.GetResponseStream(); 

        StreamReader sreader = new StreamReader(streamResponse);
        Rstring = sreader.ReadToEnd();

I am a bit confused, can anybody help me??

Answer 1

Here's a link to their API documentation. To login you'll want to call their API like this:

https://www.geni.com/platform/oauth/request_token?client_id=YOUR_APP_ID&client_secret=YOUR_APP_SECRET&grant_type=client_credentials