At our gym, we have a private Facebook group in which announcements are posted, photos and videos of our workouts etc.
I do not have a FB account anymore but I was wondering if I can get the data out of the group and digest it somewhere outside of Facebook.
Maybe by using the API and forwarding the posts in the group to Telegram or mail. It could be that I am overreacting because I do not like the FB business model and do not want to participate in it. But as my gym only posts in the closed FB group, I am looking for alternatives.
Or should I just create a FB account with nothing on it and only use Tor? :)
Looking forward to your suggestions.
Regards
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I'm looking to set up the Facebook Audiences API into my PC game but I'm a bit confused about how Facebook matches this to a real-world user.
I don't collect any user data in my game other than a unique userID. If I use the "External Identifiers" example in the FB documentation and push the userID back to Facebook, how does FB then match this to a Facebook user? Do they just collect IP address from the payload and use the userID to find a unique user or something else?
Thanks in advance.
Unless players of your game can use their facebook accounts to create user id's for your game, it is unlikely that you will be able to create audiences based on this data. Facebook isn't interested in the usernames of people who play your games, they would have no reason to store this information.
One thing you could do is allow players to create an account by signing in with their facebook id. This would let you put them on an advertising list, without having to try to match up user names to a game that facebook doesn't know about.
Here's a link to a quick start for Facebook Connect, which would allow you to do what I detailed above.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/javascript/quickstart
What I'm trying to do is basically described in this particular
doc page from FB itself: click (post, comment content and listen for new content), but for a "normal" closed group instead of a group in a workplace.
According to the document, this would only be possible by storing the user access token of the group admin and use various graph API endpoints, but this does not seem like a good solution to me.
Is there any other known way (something like creating a Facebook app which will create posts, comment/like stuff and listens to new posts made in the group (similar to the group bots in workplaces))?
Thank you in advance!
Luca
Is there any other known way (something like creating a Facebook app wich will create posts, comment/like stuff and listens to new posts made in the group (similar to the group bots in workplaces)) ?
No, there is not.
Reading posts and creating them using the group admin's token would be possible, but that's about it.
Liking posts in the name of users has generally been removed (not just for group posts),
commenting will likely not be possible either for any non-admin in a closed group, and
Webhooks do not cover non-workplace group feeds as of now either, so you'd have to do constant pulling to get new posts.
And yet, the Facebook API clearly states:
In groups, bots can do many of the things that people can do. This means you can build bots that post new content, comment on content with new information and like posts to indicate acknowledgment or approval.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/workplace/integrations/custom-integrations/bots#botsingroups
I am new to Facebook messengers bots. I want to know how can I add a bot to a group (more than 1 people in the conversation). I read about the API in here
and I tried some bots like Mealou and getbirdiebot on my messanger. But in order to access them, I had to click on their link, which trigers an event for oppening a private conversation between me and the bot. How can I add a bot to a group then?
Is it even possible?
P.S: In this link facebook uses A.I to read the text and process it in the groups. I want to do something like that.
Please could you help. I have created a website that allows people to upload listings of items they are selling. I want to know how to add the feature where when someone creates a listing, it automatically posts on the user's FB page, with a link to the listing on our website. Is this possible? Would the user have to log into our website using their FB account for this to happen? Thanks everyone for your help.
Martin
You need to create a Facebook App and use Facebook Graph API with publish_actions permissions to do that. Note that the facebook rules prohibit sending fully automated messages that the user has no control, your user must have the ability to edit the message before sending
Does facebook javascript api support the functionality of sending requests to join groups? I'm making a closed group for my organisation, so everything is pulled from facebook and displayed on our intranet but only if you are a member of that group. I had a request that I should make a functionality of requesting to join a facebook group using the api and not on facebook, as employee are not allowed to see the facebook website unless the specified urls, can someone please let me know if this is possible to do and if maybe you know of some link that I can go a look at. Please let me know, even the iframe will do at this stage.
Nope, sorry can't find anything in the Javascript API that allows you to send invites to groups.