I am interested in building my own cards (since there isn't any such card that is currently available..?), similar to this question. However no one answered that question previously.
If not, how else can we achieve deep-linking to open other apps (like for example I want to get directions, I don't mind having to open up Google Maps to do so). But it only seems to work for Android, and it is still in Developer Preview..?
I also want to allow the user to click on a card / a button and call a mobile number, but url only takes in http / https URL schemes and not tel://, so that workaround can't work...
You can't build your own rich response types, they are internal features of the Dialogflow platform and the Assistant apps, you can only use them as far as Google exposes them via the APIs. You are not alone in wanting to have more advanced rich responses (I'd like to have free-form HTML cards), but waiting is all you can do here.
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I need to show telegram channel posts in a website. but I don't know how to export telegram channel into xml. I need to have both texts and images and also other files and media like mp4 - pdf or other things.
Is there any way to do that?
In three steps:
First you need create a bot with #botfather. Then add bot to channel. (There is no need to make bot admin.)
Second use a programming language and write a program that receives message from channel and send it to server.
Third you must provide a way in site back-end to receive posts that your program sends.
For second step i suggest you to use python. there are some modules that can deal with bots.i think in your case telepot can be simplest module that do everything you need.
For third step you must add more details about your site back-end. anyway i suggest you to write a Restful API for back-end and send posts to site with python requests module.
You need to use telegram API to access the content of a channel.
Telegram API is fairly complicated. There are clients in different languages that makes it easier to interact with the API.
I personally worked with Telethon and it's relatively simple to get it work. If you follow the directions on the home page, there is also an interactive client you can play around to get yourself familiar with how it works.
If you are familiar with other languages there are clients for those languages as well. If you prefer any specific language please comment.
Lets say my web server app is in drupal or wordpress, or even code igniter, how would one get about integrating a comment system? TSpecifically what I am trying to find out is if anyone was able to find a successful approach that would save some time as opposed to me going down the road of tying myself to a specific CMS content system.
Just throwing in some considerations here (by no means complete):
Are users also accessing your content (and its comment system) via the website?
If so, you'll want to have a comment interface that is available on the website too, and the easiest choice may be to use the comment system natively supplied by your CMS / through plugins.
If on the other hand your users will only be using the iOS app(s) for commenting (via a native interface) or you'll be heavily customizing the website anyway, using a comment system independent from your CMS might be an option.
How will the content be accessed from the app?
Via a simple web view? Or will the app download via an API provided by your CMS and display it in a native UI? If you are using an API provided by your CMS, you will have the same issue with your content as with your comments when moving CMSes.
You could add an intermediate layer that abstracts from the specific CMS API.
Or if you don't really plan on moving CMSes but want to prepare for that event nevertheless, you could simply implement a no-frills "version check" to ask the server for the CMS kind / version it is using, and if it doesn't match what your app expects, ask the users to update. This isn't the prettiest user experience, but it might be sufficient depending on what you're actually planning.
MapKit doesn't natively support local search results, so I'm looking for a way to get a list of local pizzerias (or coffee shops, or a specific retailer) via some http api call.
The default google maps api requires javascript, so it's not clear to me how to integrate this into an iPhone app (without displaying a UIWebView).
I have found that a url in a format such as this:
http://maps.google.com/maps?output=json&q=pizza&near=37.3,-122&num=10
Does return a JSON-like list of results, but my usual friendly JSON parser, json-framework, barfs when it tries to parse this (even if I do clever-sounding things like leaving out the "while(1);" at the start of the reply). I'm also not sure how legitimate this URL is to use for this purpose.
I'm on the same quest. It seems that one option would be to perform the local search using Google's AJAX Search API, then plug that data into the mapkit.
That said, it's not entirely clear to me yet that this approach is in the clear vis a vis google's terms of service. Let's see here. Alright, changed my mind because of this. It's a post on google's own ajax api blog including video of a native iPhone app. Looks like this is the approved solution.
I have an internal tool written in java. It would be useful to get a little
feedback on how much it is used by colleagues.
A simple solution would be to have the application display an image which it fetches from
a web hit counter like application and just look at how often the image is accessed.
So what I am looking for: a stand-alone application (i.e. no Apache modules, cgi scripts, etc),
which serves one or a couple of static images and and can log accesses, preferably with as
little as possible of support of everything else.
Searching for "hit counter" gave little relevant, "lightweight http server" was more relevant, although mostly overkill still. Any suggestions?
You could try using Google Analytics. Most of the time, people using Google Analytics are tracking pageviews on a web page, and Google Provides some javascript that you can place on your page and it will track the visits to that page as well as browser capabilities/etc. Behind the scenes, that javascript is placing an image tag on the page in the manner you describe.
However, since your application is java and not a web app (I assume it's a standalone and not an applet), you won't be able to include Google's javascript (unless you embed a javascript interpreter...yick). Fortunately, it is possible to use Google's analytics without javascript.
The trick is that Google's scripts use the image http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif and pass parameters via the query string. You can find a list of the parameters you can pass to the query string here. So all you'd have to do is figure out what the query string should be and have your client make the request to google's image (after setting up your google analytics account, of course).
Just use Google Analytics, it's really easy and requires a short script on your pages.
Michal Kebrt's simple UNIX HTTP server does exactly what I was looking for.
I am wondering if the App Store provides an API that allows others to access the data like descriptions, prices, reviews, etc.?
The iTunes Store is the API.
All pages in the iTunes Store are simply XML files rendered by iTunes. You can parse these files yourself and navigate around to your heart's content.
Here's the URL for the front page:
http://ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/com.apple.jingle.app.store.DirectAction/storeFront
You might also want to see:
http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/itms/
http://www.s-seven.net/itunes_xml
Apple has an official API for the App Store, it's named iTunes Search API. In the documentation there are also some examples on how to use the "lookup" and "search" endpoints, quite easy to use and data is returned in JSON format :)
Unfortunately that's not the same with Google Play (previously known as Android Market) which does not expose apps' meta-data through an API.
To get that data for Android, you could develop your own HTML crawler, parse the page and extract the app meta-data you need. This topic has been covered in other questions, for instance here.
If you don't want to implement all that by yourself, you could use a third-party service to access Android apps meta-data through a JSON-based API.
For instance, 42matters.com(the company I work for) offers a unified API for both Android and iOS, here more details:
https://42matters.com/app-market-data
The endpoints range from "lookup" (to get one app's meta-data, probably what you need) to "search", but we also expose "rank history" and other stats from the leading app stores. We have extensive documentation for all supported features, you find them in the left panel: https://42matters.com/docs/overview
I hope this helps, otherwise feel free to get in touch with me. I know this industry quite well and can point you in the right direction.
Regards,
Andrea