I was wondering, is it possible for us users to know if a website uses server-side tracking?
For example, tracking to send events to Facebook, Google Tag Manager, etc.
Are there any indicators or tools we can use to find this out?
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Does anybody know if there's any way of using standard Facebook Messenger features like quick replies, buttons or templates from Facebook Channel (Beta) via Programmable API?
As it is right now it seems too limited to be of any use beyond simple text conversations; no prefilled answers, no links to actions or products...
Are there any (short term) plans to support it? (just being able to send a json like in Facebook own API would be more than enough https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/reference/buttons/quick-replies)
Right now, you are right that the integration is relatively simple.
What you want to look out for is the Twilio Messaging Content API which is currently in pilot. The Content API is intended to make rich messaging across any of the channels that Twilio offers easier. The Content API will wrap each of the channels, making it straightforward to add buttons, actions or prefills to messages over channels that support it, with fallbacks for simpler channels (like our old friend SMS). The API is in pilot right now, but you can register your interest and request access here.
Facebook have deprecated their app notifications API so there is no way to push content to a users phone based on segments anymore, correct me if I'm wrong.
The problem is that I want to analyse Facebook analytic data programatically and display different products to my customers based on how they use the app, to do this I need access to Facebook analytics through a PHP SDK or JavaScript SDK. How do I access Facebook analytics programatically? I can't find anything in their PHP SDK which would let me do this.
Furthermore, I want to push notifications to specific segments of users, now that Facebook have deprecated their app notifications API, how can this be accomplished?
Could it be worth switching to Firebase / Google analytics, would these services allow me to accomplish these tasks?
Thanks
Analytics is primarily about post-event analysis, vs real-time optimization. All of the products you mention focus on post-event analysis and don't support you reading data out for a single individual (i.e. the current user), through an API or otherwise.
I've found a few really old answers that do not work. I am building a website for my church. What I want to do is have a feed that shows events from Facebook, that way when the lady that does our social media adds an event it will automatically post them to our website. This will keep the website easy to maintain. Besides paying for a plugin, what is the best way to go about this?
Yes, I know you can embed events. But I am trying to keep it as easy as possible for people at my church who are not really techie or know how to design websites. Please help.
I am using squarespace and the website is ccodtruth.org
Google Analytics provides 'real-time' active visitor count for specific pages/urls. I don't think they expose that through the API. Is anyone aware of a tool that I can use to keep track of real-time active visitors for specific pages on my site?
Thanks.
Now, Google has launched new API- Google Real Time API, which provides this facility. with this you can extract similar data.
try : https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/reporting/realtime/v3/devguide
I want to build a mobile application that allows end users to sign up and participate in events (like parties, seminars, conferences etc..). Instead of building a CMS from scratch for an administrator to manage events, is it possible to use Facebook Events as the CMS? Then my mobile application will pull information about these events via the Facebook API.
Any one know if it's better for me to build the CMS from scratch or to use FB events? And what are things I have to consider in making this decision?
Let's say events are authored by users of the system, and if we go the FB CMS method, then users MUST have a Facebook account.
This is certainly possible with the events Facebook api. If you wanted all the events associated with an account you own, you could embed an access token into your application. If you want people to accept your event or host the event under their own account you would need to prompt users for permissions to manage events on their behalf.
It's pretty subjective question whether this is a good idea and it depends on what you are trying to achieve. The biggest upside is that its already built for you and designed to scale and wouldn't require servers, etc. The biggest downside I see is that Facebook changes their API and its not always the most reliable (see the always growing bug list they keep). Also, users may need an account depending on how you decide to implement the functionality.