Is it possible that users of my app can see its own database using cloudkit dashboard or any other way? I need to help someone with one issue, and I need to know what is in its database. Can I do it somehow?
CloudKit dashboard is only accessible by a developer account, and will only show the data associated with that developer account. Otherwise you see nothing more than a message 'You are not a member of a Developer Team'.
Public access to an iCloud database is possible by using CloudKit JS. This requires an API Token or a server-to-server key. More info here https://developer.apple.com/documentation/cloudkitjs.
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I want to integrate my application with Soundcloud for having the user statistics and so on, I use the client.authorize_url to send the user to approve the app on Soundcloud and I get the proper access_token but I want to know how to correlate between this access_token t the user that clicked on the client.authorize_url in my backend database (I mean I get the access token but how do I know to save it in the DB for the right user?)
Note: not a soundcloud dev.
There are two possible questions being asked here and I'm not sure really what you are asking.
If you are asking about storing data pertaining to a user that has connected through your app: Why do you need to store access tokens on your database? Access tokens expire, and they will change over time, even if it is the same user. It is better to store user-specific data (if needed at all) to a database referencing the users ID. That specific ID will not change. If you are talking about
If you are asking about the app itself, and how to reference that users information once they connect: This is done by using the method call on the SDK (not 100% on the name as I use custom implementations) for Me(). Check the documentation for more info. Hopefully this helps - if you needs some clarification let me know.
I can't really figure out what exactly the facebook API and its services are capable of in terms of user management. Given that I would completely rely on facebook for registration and login, does facebook only provide the authentication and registration process and return me data to store in my own database or does it also itself store a list of already registered user accounts which I can query later on so that I could completely outsource user management from my servers?
If you only need to authorize a User, you don´t need to store anything. You only need to store them in a database if you need to identify returning Users, or if you need to use his data while he is not online.
There is no user management though, you can´t just get a list of all users who authorized your App from Facebook. That´s what you have to store on your own. Make sure to implement the possibility to remove a User from your database, Facebook offers a deauthorization-callback in the App settings for that.
I have a desktop app which uses a user access token to read the me/feed endpoint and I can see all the posts for the logged in user. If I wanted to simplify deployment to different users I would need to minimise the amount of setup/configuration they did.
Is there a way to access me/feed for a given userid rather than have to setup every user as a developer account and create an app for it?
I have looked at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/using-graph-api/v2.0 and it is not obvious to me how to do this.
What configuration / permissions does the user in question need to do to activate this. Which access token should I be using, and will it give access to all the posts in the same way the user access token does.
[EDIT] I have looked at this again and the problem I am having is that when a user (who has a facebook account but is NOT a developer) tries to login to my App (which is in development mode) I get the following error
"App Not Setup: The developers of this app have not set up this app properly for Facebook Login."
Thanks in advance
Is it required by Facebook that if a user deletes your app from their account settings, that you must remove their account/data from your database? Or if a user deletes their Facebook account you must delete their account from your database as well...I have heard this before, but can't find anything in Facebook's documentation that explicitly states this.
Quoting from Facebook's Platform Policies
You will delete all data you receive from us concerning a user if the user asks you to do so, and will provide an easily accessible mechanism for users to make such a request. We may require you to delete data you receive from the Facebook API if you violate our terms.
Also, from Facebook's Help about App Basics
Does deleting an app from my timeline mean that the developers no longer have access to my information? No. Deleting an app from your timeline simply means that it will no longer have access to any new information that you share. If you would like a developer to permanently delete all of your information, you will need to contact the developer directly.
So deriving from above two information we can say that it is up to you to either delete or not delete the User's data if the User has unauthorized or deleted your app but you should delete it when asked to delete the data by the User explicitly.
Also, there is no policy over the deletion of User's data on deactivation of the account and it is up to you to either delete it or not, but I would suggest in keeping as Facebook itself preserves all the User's data so that he may have his data intact when he reactivates.
I have a scenario, where an authorised user through my application is posting status/uploading pictures via my application by granting required permissions. My application uses graph APIs.
Now, as app administrator if I want to see the content of the post, that the user has uploaded via my application. How do i do it?
I know in graph APIs, I have INSIGHTS api. But, it just gives us the statistics of the posts done via my app or user.
Can i really see the posts?
Assuming as an app admin I only have app access token and app ID. I dont store user access tokens with me.
Actually, I worked on the problem with every possible way. Found out that, even being an APP administrator I will need user access token (stored with me), without which these data shall not be retrieved via APIs.
My need was not to use user access token; But, no Its not possible via APIs as of now.