We are setting up a data flow from Facebook Insight API to a big data platform. We are planning to use Talend. Is there a Talend connector that's fully functional and up-to-date?
I could only find out-of-date components.
The challenge we have is that Facebook authentication mandates a user interaction and we need to automate that.
At the moment there are no fully functional and up-to-date Facebook components for Talend. You have to use the httprequest component.
For a nonexpireing token follow this instructions:
If you use the marketing API from Facebook you can add a SystemUser to the APP ; this will get a non-expiring access token for Facebook Insights.
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I hope not to be duplicating any question, and also not to be asking something too basic.
I´m building a web app in ReactJS, just to get familiar with the framework. I planned to grant access to users using a Facebook login, which I already have working with react-facebook-login. I also have a Spring Boot Rest API, to serve the front-end. But I want to allow access to part of my API just to authenticated users, using the Facebook access token. So in my back-end, I had to do an org.springframework.boot downgrade from 2.0.4.RELEASE to 1.5.10.RELEASE so I can use the Facebook Graph API. Do you guys think this is ok? or should I use a different approach?
And to be honest I´m a little confused on how to achieve a correct validation of the user's request on the restricted areas of my REST API using the access token sent from the front-end, Do you guys have any suggestions on this matter?
Thank you all for your help.
I wish to implement an Instagram feed reader for my website. A reader that will show my Instagram feed in a unique interactive manner without asking the user to login to Instagram. Is there a way for me to do this reliably using Instagram APIs or their new Instagram Business APIs?
Current options and their caveats:
1. The Instagram v1 API found here (https://www.instagram.com/developer/)
requires user to authenticate. There is no way for an application to use grant_type=client_credentials to acquire a token and make API calls.
The tokens generated don't seem to expire but a note says they may expire any time, making a solution that uses a manually generated token unreliable.
https://www.instagram.com/developer/authentication/
2. Instagram Business accounts API found here (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-api/)
requires an Instagram business account, and at the same time the queries to media endpoint seem to require User Access Token, which again requires a user to login for generation/renewal of token. (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-api/reference/media/)
I'm aware of endpoints like https://www.instagram.com/{username}/media/, but this is undocumented and can disappear any moment.
I will highly appreciate any help, or recommendation to implement such a feed that does not require a user to generate authentication tokens.
as it is said in Instagram API doc:
In your application, you should have each user go through an authentication and authorization flow in order to receive a valid access_token.
so I can see just too ways:
use '/media' end-point until it is blocked (i believe it is relatively reliable, because anything can disappear one day, not just undocumented things)
authenticate yourself on instagram, and use your own access_token for API requests, as it is done in several popular tools for getting instagram recent posts
I'm a bit confused about Identity Providers in a project I'm doing with Xamarin Forms.
I configured Facebook as an IP with Azure Mobile Apps following this page
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service-mobile/app-service-mobile-how-to-configure-facebook-authentication
It works, but my doubt is, how can I use the MobileServiceUser result of the authentication process to, for example, post to Facebook or get personal information from Facebook. Is this possible?
Thanks!
This is how I think about it.
Identity providers are used to provide a third party guarantee of WHO a user is.
The Mobile SDK lets you do Authorization. So you can decide WHAT the user can do on YOUR service after you know WHO they are.
Any thing you are doing via facebook would still need to be done through the Facebook API/SDK using the token their Authentication process returned to you.
Finally I found the solution to my problem.
What I was trying to do is get information from Facebook after I have authenticated myself.
All I had to do was invoke
await client.InvokeApiAsync("/.auth/me");
After authentication and thats all, the response of that request has the token to access the Facebook API. These tokens are saved in Azure.
For more information:
https://cgillum.tech/2016/03/07/app-service-token-store/
Thanks!
not sure if this is strictly programming question (apologies in advance).
We have windows service which is responsible for downloading data from different API's on regular basis, it's just internal tool we are using on our server.
For purposes of oauth2 authentication we use our another tool, which can
handle multiple Oauth logins through different API's, then we just ask this tool for access token and use it in our calls. This works perfectly with e.g. AdWords, BingAds, etc.
Now we have a task to download data from Facebook API. But the problem here is that according to FB we need to apply application for approval in order to get permission to "ads_read" source, which can allow us to download ad insights.
But the problem is that our tool is not an application it does not have any icon, screenshots or Privacy Policy URL. Is there any possibility to get these data without application to FB? Maybe is there another way to login and get the data from user without using oauth2, thus no need for using the oauth2 and scope permissions?
Thanks in advance
As long as you're only using your app with admins/testers/developers of the same app, you don't need to go under Login Review. Only if you also want to authenticate "other" users as well.
For this task I have already created my own facebook application to get the API key and secret key. Can anyone explain the next steps that should be done to
1) Read from facebook API
2) Write my own database
by using web services
Thanks in advance!
A high level answer:
I'm assuming you want to use the authorization code OAuth flow (this means you want Facebook users to give you access to their profiles so you can grab data from there). If so, you need to bring up a web server and an application that will run your users through the Facebook OAuth flow. In case you just want to access Facebook with your own credentials you don't have to have a web server, simply use the client credentials OAuth flow.
So, Once you have a valid access token, you simply make calls to Facebook API using this token. using Facebook Graph API is simply a matter of calling URLs and getting the data as JSON.
You can test-drive the API here.
BTW, according to Facebook's platform policy, you're only allowed to store Facebook data for caching purposes.
Let me know if this helps.