I have created many apps that collect group posts and comments in the past. I have created the new app and I am able to login and get credentials. When I try to collect the information for the private group I receive a blank return.
I am using the administrators account but it does not make a difference which account I use.
I have been digging through the documentation but cant seem to find any details on working with private groups.
Has anyone worked with private groups or know the workaround?
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Is there a way to get all the posts from a public group on facebook without the graph api/group api?
I am a member in the group but I'm not an admin so I don't have the permissions to do it with the formal facebook api.
But I can access all the data with my browser so I can see all the posts throw the web GUI.. So I thought there's might be a way to download/get all the posts from a group without the need to be an admin..
Thanks!
Is there a way to get all the posts from a public group on facebook without the graph api/group api?
Circumventing the APIs would not be allowed to begin with; you have to use those, if you want to gather any data by any automated means, everything else would be against the ToS.
There is no way to access group posts via API, if an admin does not “install” your app in the group first.
The group visibility does not matter in that regard, it is the same for private or public.
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
I am attempting to retrieve my own comments from a public group on Facebook, using the Facebook Graph API. This is a public group of which I am not an administrator.
I have attempted a number of strategies, but to no avail so far. I keep hitting brick walls, e.g.:
The xxx'yyy' is only accessible on the User object after the user grants the 'user_managed_groups' permission.
If I go on my own profile activity log, I can see those comments, so I would have expected there should have been a way to retrieve those programmatically through the Graph API.
Am I mistaken?
UPDATE
On the chance that I am indeed mistaken, I have sent the following feedback to Facebook:
I would like to b able to retrieve my own comments from a public group on Facebook, using the Facebook Graph API. This is a
public group of which I am not an administrator.
At the moment, the Graph API documentation (v2.12) states that to read the feed I need to provide a user access token for an Admin of
the Group with the user_managed_groups permissions.
Please note that if I go on my own profile activity log, I can see those comments, so I would have expected there should have been a way
to retrieve those programmatically through the Graph API.
Group feeds are only accessible with an access token of a group admin now.
Please note that if I go on my own profile activity log, I can see those comments, so I would have expected there should have been a way to retrieve those programmatically through the Graph API.
The main difference is, that you are one single person looking at your own data. But if I create an app and have a hundred thousand people log in to it and it was possible to read that data, then I could accumulate it for whatever shady purpose ...
(Now with the feed of a public group that might seem a little over the top, I know - but I think the general idea is to make automated data collection harder.)
I've been trying (with little success) for a while now to get all the posts from a private group that I am in and display them on our website so that the people with
out Facebook can still see them. I know this is possible with a public group (which our group cannot be), but is it possible with a private group?
I've tried access tokens on the Graph API Explorer, but that just returns:
{
"data": [
]
}
I also read that to access private groups the user needs to log in as a user in that group. However, this would be pointless as the whole point in trying to do this is to allow people without facebook to see the group's posts.
Thank you all
Ben
The whole point of a "private" group is that only logged in group members can see the feed.
That being said, you can only use the permission user_managed_groups to get the group feed with the /group-id/feed endpoint. You need to use a User Access Token for this, with the correct permission, and this only works as group admin. You can't read the feed of a group just because the user is a member of the group - at least not anymore.
Does anyone know of a way to list facebook users that say on their profile that they work at a given company? or used to work at the company.
Not sure if its even possible as i cant find anything in the api docs about this for the page object.
you can get only those info about the user those are public in there profile.
for more info visit here
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/login/