I have a Web-to-Print store where users can upload their own images. I need a way for users to be able to click a "Facebook" button, log in, and select one of their photos (which is then returned to our website).
This seems like it should be pretty easy and is extremely common on Web-to-Print sites, but I can't find any information on it and all searches resulted in uploading an image TO Facebook.
The Facebook API doesn't seem like it would offer a good user experience, and the SDK doesn't seem to support selecting and then pulling in an image. Is there no pre-made way to do this or Am I missing something?
There is no prebuilt function, you would have to authorize the user with the user_photos permission and use the /me/photos endpoint to get his photos: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/user/photos/
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Did I miss sth or it is impossible to get link to user's timeline from Facebook Messenger API?
According to: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/user-profile User Profile API doesn't return link in fields.
Is there any other option?
You would have to use the User Profile endpoint and use all the information for determining which Facebook user it matches to. If you image match the profile picture and match all the other information, and compare timezone to their location, it is probably possible, but it's probably not easy.
Making a workaround like this might not be a bad idea because Facebook seems to want to keep all the stuff seperate right now, as their user ID's are different for seemingly everything. The User Profile endpoint exists for personalization purposes, but it doesn't identify a user.
The user matching through login might also be useful as a outside of messenger solution, but I'm not sure exactly how that would be done.
I'm trying to identify people profile through pictures.
I'm using tineye.com as tool to check if an image appears in any website, from the results, I scrap the url related with Facebook and Twitter and, if this exists, I go over the DOM checking if the image url is inside Profile Picture or in a comment.
That's very useful and very interesting to get a profile array but it is very limited because neither tineye nor Google Images Search have got a lot of Twitter accounts indexed. Moreover, Facebook profiles are not included in the results so I wonder if exists any place or any way to get Facebook/Twitter/Google profiles if I already have got a name and a picture.
On my site I want members to be able to click a link import your Facebook photo then a Facebook popup opens and asks user to confirm that he/she wants to share their profile picture with my website.
Can this be done? What are the steps? I am looking at the Facebook graph API but I am unsure if this is the right thing, I have huge problems understanding their samples and "help" files.
I was able to easily do this with Gmail and Yahoo, uses can get a browser popup from them in order to confirm sharing contacts with my website, I assumed Facebook works the same to import the profile picture but I am spinning in circles.
Within Facebook Terms for users it states that your name and picture are publicly available so one does not need permission to request it.
https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/your-info
The naitik call is an example of data that is publicly available without asking for permission.
When you are requesting the current user, that is, you don't know the id or name beforehand, then you use a basic login flow which will then present one of the following dialogs.
I run a social membership club and my website users can log into my site with each having their own profile page.
On each of my user's profile pages, I want to display a list of photos which have been tagged with that user on Facebook. I know this part is possible.
The bit I am struggling with is giving each of my users the ability to 'untag' themselves in each photo of them that is displayed in the list. The 'untagging' should happen directly from my site. Is this possible and how could I go about doing this?
Hope someone can help/has ideas?
Unfortunately, there's no facbeook API that allows removal of photo tags at this time of writing.
Its not documented and I haven't tested this but I'd chance issuing a DELTE request to
/PHOTO_ID/tags/USER_ID
Worth a shot through the graph explorer anyway.
I am currently developing a site for models/actors, and at this point I am just trying to ascertain what I can and can't do with Facebook Connect (I have virtually no experience in using Facebook Connect or FQL).
Basically there is going to be a facility whereby users will be able to upload their pictures. I want to know is it possible to use Facebook Connect to get the user's photo albums, in order to save the user from re-uploading all the photo's that are already on FB?
If so, do I/should I LINK to these photos, or FETCH them from Facebook and save a copy on my server?
EDIT: Just to clarify, this is what I want to do:
User will register on my site and agree to associate their Facebook ID with my site.
I then want to present the user with a list of all their albums that are on Facebook, the user can then select which albums they want to display on my site.
(optional) The user can select which specific photos in each album they want to display on my site.
Is this possible to do at all?
You can upload photos using the API. Check out this: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/photo
If it were me, I would just upload the photo to Facebook and save the URL of the image rather than store it on my own server. You could do either one, but I don't see the sense is storing the image twice. The one issue could be if you wanted your photo at a higher quality than Facebook allows, but their quality is pretty high.