Im building a external link to my facebook page conversation with a person, processing the data provided by facebook api.
I want something like this: //inbox/ example:facebook.com/104218061964937/inbox/100071153377218
i already have the page id , but I have problems to find the person id that writes.
This message seems to be from a profile to a page, by looking the url .
To have the data from a message, you should use the pages api, than you ask for pages_messaging permission, and make a get request to the inbox node .
The question is not clear, you should give better details, i dont see dificulty to find ids from anything, as a page .
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Goal
My goal is for a user to share something he created on my site to Facebook, and for me to display all comments on my own page using the Facebook comments plugin.
So my ideal flow would be:
User creates content with example id vjrjf834fdkfj, and shares using public URL http://example.com/vjrjf834fdkfj/.
User shares this URL on Facebook via my Facebook app ID. The post ID is 1234567.
I get this post ID. (This is what I need help with)
I store this in my database.
Whenever a visitor visit the page http://example.com/vjrjf834fdkfj/ I look up in the database what the post ID is (1234567 in this example), and call the Facebook comments plugin using this post ID.
What I tried
Attempt #1
First failed attempt: read the post_id field of the FB.ui callback but this response is typically empty because Facebook says that:
Only available if the user is logged into your app using Facebook and
has granted publish_actions. If present, this is the ID of the
published Open Graph story.
My user is not always logged into my app via Facebook, because he can also create a normal account.
Attempt #2
So my next attempt was to get a list of all posts of this app by calling the Graph API. I have a "basic" app with the "Website" platform set to my website URL (www.example.com). Given this list I might filter this on the relevant URL and voila, get the post ID for the right URL.
I can create an access token and call https://graph.facebook.com/v2.8/{app-id}/objects?access_token={token}, but this gives an error The parameter type is required. And when I try to get a list of object types by calling the /object_types endpoint, I get an empty list.
Attempt #3
I also played a bit with creating a Page Tab but the documentation makes no sense to me as to how that would apply to my case. I ended up with two extra pages, all empty, and not what I want. However, I could live with an extra page on my Facebook page showing a list of all posts that have been shared (so these posts would appear here and on my user's timeline).
Questions
So:
Why is this object_types list empty? I expect that something like "post" would show up here, allowing me to get a list of all posts associated with this app ID.
If this is not possible, how can I still achieve my end goal?
Thanks.
I've written a Facebook web application, which is able to post links to the app page feed (as the page) by requesting the page token and doing a post request to the /PAGE_ID Graph REST endpoint. So far, so good, but I'd like to tag the links with their authors as well. When I add the tags parameter to this request with a value of my user id (I am an admin of the page), this works fine. But when I enter another user id (even one that likes the app page), no tagging is done. Does anyone have any experience with this? Some blog post suggest this is not possible using the Graph API, even though this is possible when done manually.
Thanks!
If I understand correctly what you want to do, it is no longer possible with the new version of the Facebook's API (v.2.0).
Refer to this page for more informations.
I am planning to build a small side project that stores posts from particular public pages. And detect if they delete the post later. Something similar has been done for Twitter. But I couldn't find similar projects for Facebook.
Like this: http://politwoops.sunlightfoundation.com/
But for Twitter. I will do it in Python or C#
How can I go about it?
Any particular code or projects I can learn from?
The only way to check if a post is not there anymore on Facebook is to search for it with a User Access Token of the User who posted it. Every Object on Facebook gets a specific ID, you only have to check if that ID still exists. If not, you get an Error from the API.
For example: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/?method=GET&path=10203433018378479&version=v2.0
The path parameter is the ID of the Post.
Keep in mind that you need the read_stream permission for that, and you need to let Facebook approve it for other users or it will only work for Admins/Devs of your App. It is not very likely that you will get the permission approved for this though. It usually only gets approved for Apps on "Platforms without a native Facebook experience".
Edit: My bad, i was thinking about User posts, but your question was about Pages. In that case, all you need is an App Access Token (App-ID|App-Secret). The API Call would be the same, you just need to know the Post ID.
About Access Tokens:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/access-tokens/
http://www.devils-heaven.com/facebook-access-tokens/
For getting the feed of a Facebook Page, see the Facebook docs (including code samples): https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.0/page/feed/
You can use graph api for this. If it's a public page, you can follow these steps:
Create your application in Facebook developers site
Setup the basic graph auth mechanism with your favorite language and get unexpired token.
Use your unexpired access token to do these tasks:
Enter the id of the pages you want to crawl http://graph.facebook.com/[insert page id or url here]/feed
Add post title, postID to your database.
Create a scheduled task on your server to do these tasks:
Select all / page based etc posts on your database and send a request to: http://graph.facebook.com/[insert post ID here]
if it returns it means it's still there. otherwise it will return an error.
is that possible we can get the information from facebook API whether graph or REST or FQL regarding user sharing. Such as video or post or anything can share via facebook and it is shared by a list of user, with profile id or user name. I found something like this http://appshack.tv/2011/03/likes/ but it is just the counter, lack of information. Any way can do? Coz I found that facebook not stated everything in the documentation. Some trick is found from third party side.
No you can't get the user ids. Facebook will do their best NOT to share the user id with you "unless" they (the users) authorize your application.
And guess what....you can't even get the list of the users who are using YOUR application! (You can only get the count!)
Check this answer.
I've been looking at the Facebook API to find some way to edit a user's Likes (that is, add or remove items from https://graph.facebook.com/me/likes/). The API doesn't say anything about it specifically, but does say this:
You can publish to the Facebook graph by issuing HTTP POST requests to the appropriate connection URLs above.
Where above, one of the connection URLs is the aforementioned https://graph.facebook.com/me/likes link. However, there's no documentation for the PROFILE_ID/likes post, and whenever I try to post it returns the error "invalid post_id".
I assume this is because to like something, you post a request to POST_ID/likes. It's a bit inconsistent. What I'm trying to do is get the user's profile to add a Page to their likes (by posting using the page's id as an "id" parameter in the post body). However, it seems like there's just no way to edit user's likes.
At the end of the day, I just want to allow a user to click a button in my application (mobile device application, not a web app) and have them add our Facebook page into their list of pages, and I've found no way of doing that short of presenting our page to them and making them click on the "Like" button manually. Many other things are supported without showing the Facebook website, like posting to their wall or making albums, but I can't find anything to do this.
Any ideas?
Looks like I can't. Not in the way I want to anyway.