Facebook has a very useful API that can be used to get the feed of a Facebook group (see this link). One of the requirements for using this API is that my app must be installed in the group. As far as I know, I can install apps only in groups that I manage.
My question is how can I get the feed of a group by an API, if I don't manage the group? Is is possible by Graph API or by any other piece of software?
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There have been lots of changes to the facebook api recently, which now includes the instagram api as well. https://www.instagram.com/developer/changelog/
They have shutdown a lot of endpoints way ahead of schedule and has created a huge problem for my application which integrates instagram user data. They have the instagram graph api now, but looks like it can be used only for business accounts (looked like that prima facie). Reading through the news past couple of days, I am really confused about what is available and what is not. My application used to get user data (number of followers, recent posts, reach, likes, etc) using the instagram handle provided by users. Since this is totally restricted on the platform api now, is there a way I can have the same functionality using the new graph api? Or should I look into 3rd party APIs? I am open to asking users for authentication (I already have the facility). Can the user information be fetched after they authenticate my app to do so?
You can use the following Graph API to get all the details for any IG business account.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-api/business-discovery
After reading Graph API documentation, stackoverflow questions, etc, i'm still confused on the task i have.
In short what i want:
-i have a classified ads website and i want to publish the ad from it to a facebook group where i'm not an administrator.
I have a facebook page (which is represent my website) from the name of which i want to publish an ad in the group. The ad in the group must be published as the "sale" post.
I'm using Facebook javascript SDK for this.
So, i'm really stuck in how do i do it.
what i tried is publishing using my app, using user/page access_token, but always getting different problems.
Can someone tell me, if it is possible to make what i want? and if possible - the algorhytm, what should i do for that?
My application allows a user to manage their friend list. Using v1.0 of the Graph API I am able to retrieve a lot more users than when using v2.2. I am curious to know if there is an alternative solution to getting a list of members to a an authenticated user's friendlist.
The old Facebook Legacy REST API had a function dashboard.publishActivity, however the new Graph API only allows messages to be posted on /me/feed.
Is there a way to send activities using the Graph API?
As mentioned in http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/552/ Facebook "have removed the section which displayed the News that developers published via the Dashboard APIs in the Games Dashboard". Therefore the dashboard.publishActivity function no longer provides any useful functionality. My recommendation is to switch to either using stream posts or to Requests 2.0, as these will provide the same sort of distribution that you're looking for.
My google skills have failed.
My interest is how much user information I can access when having users connect to my website through. Comments, shared links, uploaded photos, data from other facebook applications used by the user?
Have a look at the Graph API ..or the old REST API for an idea of what you can access via Facebook APIs.
There's a good tutorial here: Facebook Connect Tutorial. I believe this article is using the REST API and the Javascript SDK for single sign on.