I am currently getting user events in the following way:
[[[FBSDKGraphRequest alloc] initWithGraphPath:#"me" parameters:#{#"fields": #"events.since(now)"....
I need one more specific detail: I only want the user's public event, not his private events. When querying the Graph API, I can add: me/events?fields=type and this allows me to see the type (private or public) of each event. But I can't find a way to add this parameter in my FBSDKGraphRequest.
The way to go is the following. Change the parameters to this:
events.since(now).fields(type)
This will display the "type" field in the resulting data. I was then able to filter and use only the public events!
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The Facebook SDK has the ability to record both custom events and standard events. The standard events are things like "Purchases" "Add to cart" "Completed Registration" etc...
Recording these standard events gives you access to specific bidding features on Facebook ads that you don't get without the events.
I have an app that has the React Native FBSDK
There are two methods for defining an event - one for purchases and one for everything else as seen here
There is zero documentation for standard events on react within the SDK on Github or on the event tracking docs on Facebook's developer platform.
Right now I'm trying to track the standard events by using their various names, as recorded across FB's documentation. I've tried the following:
AppEventsLogger.logEvent('FBSDKAppEventNameCompletedRegistration');
AppEventsLogger.logEvent('CompletedRegistration');
AppEventsLogger.logEvent('Completed Registration');
All of these just create custom events with those names, but aren't recognized as standard events.
Has anyone gotten standard events to work using the React Native wrapper for the FB SDK? If so how do you name the events to get FB to recognize them?
Update: As the comment below highlights, the more recent link is https://developers.facebook.com/docs/marketing-api/app-event-api/
It looks like you'll have to pass the strings that those standard events get evaluated to, i.e. instead of 'FBSDKAppEventNameCompletedRegistration', you'll have to use: 'fb_mobile_complete_registration'.
Here's the source:
Sorry if this is a bit late. Hope this helps.
I managed to find the actual event name by generating standard event code using tool on Facebook's documentation, run the code in AppDelegate.m, and get the exact key-values from Events Manager. With this roundabout way, I realized the actual name of Add to Cart event was fb_mobile_add_to_cart. From there I googled for the name and found the list documented in Marketing API (why not App Events?).
I don't know if it is the right place, but you can refer to https://developers.facebook.com/docs/marketing-api/app-event-api/ for actual standard event names and parameter names. At least it worked in my case. Here's my Add to Cart event code:
function logAddToCart(totalPrice, contentType, contentId, currency) {
const params = {
'fb_content_type': contentType,
'fb_content_id': contentId,
'fb_currency': currency
};
AppEventsLogger.logEvent('fb_mobile_add_to_cart', totalPrice, params);
}
I made a simple package with all events. Just import like
import FBEvents from "react-native-fbsdk-events";
// ...
AppEventsLogger(FBEvents.COMPLETE_REGISTRATITON, params);
I would like to know which objects returned from /me/likes are public ie. don't require authorization.
So far, I haven't found a better solution than making another request to /?ids=<IDs> without the access token, where <IDs> is a comma-separated list of IDs obtained from the previous request.
Is there any field indicating whether an object is public? Any help will be highly appreciated!
This is a matter of what you're asking for when you get the auth toke. If you have all boxes unchecked you will get just public information from the request. You'll know this by the pop-up asking for authorization saying
"Graph API Explorer will receive the following info: your public profile."
How ever if you have the box checked that says "user_likes" you'll get a list of all the likes. The authorization will say.
"Graph API Explorer will receive the following info: your public profile and likes."
If you just want to return the id of the things you like you can use this.
me?fields=likes{id}
I know I can call each individual field via something like
/---ID----?fields=gender,languages,age_range,bio,birthday,education,email,hometown
Is there a quicker way than listing every single field?
It is ok if the user has most of these fields locked down with their privacy settings, I just want it to pull what is available.
just try:
https://graph.facebook.com/{{ username or uid }}?access_token={{access token goes here}}
Example:
https://graph.facebook.com/zuck?access_token=###
will give all the public information available for that user.
tl;dr: No, there isn't a way.
Calling publish_action using the JS SDK is actually pretty straightforward. However (from the little info I gleaned from reading the documentation), there's no way for me to query facebook to have it return the action instance ID for an object that I have already published... is there?
Example:
User A loads the page, and the page sends an FB.api call to /me/news.reads, which returns an action instance ID.
User A reloads the page, and the page again sends an FB.api call to /me/news.reads, but this time, the Graph API returns:
{
error: {
code: 3501,
message: 'blahblahblah... already associated... blah blah'
type: 'OAuthException'
}
}
Pretty standard stuff, and expected, since I turned off the ability to publish the same URL multiple times.
Now then, is there any way for me to retrieve a previously published action instance ID from the Graph API by passing in the URL, or is it up to me to handle the returned action instance ID (from the original publication attempt) and save it to a database? I was hoping I wouldn't have to do that...
No, there is no way to retrieve instances of published actions other than:
Accessing action by id:
http://graph.facebook.com/ACTION_ID
Accessing all instances published by specific user:
http://graph.facebook.com/USER_ID/NAMESPACE:ACTION (NAMESPACE:ACTION may be replaces by the name of one of built-in actions like news.reads, music.listend, etc.
If you want to access details of published actions connected/referencing specific object you'll need to save that data on your end for later usage.
I have built a Facebook app using OpenGraph that permits the users to write reviews on concerts, so that I've defined a concert_id attribute on which the user can insert a review.
Now I would like to show all the reviews inserted for a certain concert_id but cannot find a way. If I do (in JS)
FB.api('/me/MY_APP:action', { limit: 0}, function(response) {
console.log(response);
});
I get all items. This app has to be consumed by mobile, I think it is bad to get all items and, then, filtering only the concert_id i need. What do I have to do to apply a where condition in OpenGraph to a custom action?
As far as I can tell from the API and the Facebook developer pages, it's not possible to filter a call by custom action property using the public Open Graph API.
Two options I can think of:
Option 1:
Implement the category filter by creating custom category objects:
if "review" is a custom action and
GET https://graph.facebook.com/me/[name_space]:review
returns all review actions then
GET https://graph.facebook.com/me/[name_space]:review/scifi_movie
GET https://graph.facebook.com/me/[name_space]:review/action_movie
return actions specific to movie type, where scifi_movie and action_movie are custom objects. You would need to create one object type for each category.
Option 2:
Implement a custom action for each category, e.g.
review_scifi_movie
review_action_movie
These are not particularly elegant solutions but perhaps useful as a hack if nothing else works and you really don't want to do filtering on client side.
The Facebook API will not return individual published objects for a particular action, but that's not your only problem. By the look of it, you're trying to bring in ALL the reviews given for a concert, right? (Meaning those by other users too).
The "/me/" part of the Facebook API call will only return those published actions made by the user that is currently logged in. That won't work for you, as you want those of all your users
The only suggestion I can give is to create a simple web service, where you store all the reviews given for the various concerts. Use this service to pull in reviews given for a particular concert. (I use a similar methodology for reviews in an app of my own).
I dont understand javascript or opengraph..
But when I required in JAVA to fetch reviews made by any user I have used FQL for that and It retrived me all the reviews and FQL also used to fetch all the tables related to Facebook.
I don't think that you can pull that off with the JS SDK.
You can do that in your server though, and since this is a mobile app (or has a mobile version) then that's another good reason to remove this from the client responsibility.
In the server side you can ask facebook for the published actions as you posted, filter them and then return the response.
Another thing that you can do is to save each published action in your db (on each action post you should get an id back from facebook, just persist that) and then you can easily filter the published actions according to what ever criteria you want/need (since you are no longer restricted by the facebook api).
The open graph thing is still pretty new and not tat mature, for example you can't use FQL with it, something that could have been handy for your case.
Regardless though I think that a server solution is best for calculations when mobile is concerned.
i don't know exactly but try this
if (session.authResponse) {
FB.api('/me', {
fields: 'name, picture' // here mention your fields
},
function(response) {
if (!response.error) {
//here response value
});