Get the location id of a fan page - facebook

I have a fan page with an address.
Also, I can get the location details using the facebook API.
However, to create a new post with a review button I need the location id instead of the details.
I am using the following lines to create a share button:
var data = {
message: 'Hi !',
place: location_id
};
FB.api('/me/feed', 'post', data, function(response) {
if (!response || response.error) {
console.error(response.error);
} else {
console.log(response.id);
}
});
And it works if I use a specific location id. But I can't get the location id from a specific page.
Please give me some ideas. Thank you!

I was falling asleep, but I got one idea.
And finally, that idea was the solution:
It is possible to use the fan page id directly in the place parameter. It can be used like a place id.

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Not getting the name and other information of my friend who is also using the same app using facebook login

I am trying to fetch the information about my friends who are also logged in (or using) the app using facebook , for that i am using graph api . But i am not getting relevant information . Can anyone please help me out on that .
I went through the facebook developer docs and tried many option but it didn't helped .
//Request
FB.api(
"/{app-id}", // app-id for the application
{
"fields": "context.fields(friends_using_app)"
},
function (response) {
if (response && !response.error) {
/* handle the result */
}
}
);
Using this when i am trying to fetch the information i am getting output like this
Not getting the name and other information of my friend who is also using the same app using facebook login .
This would be the correct code to get all friends who authorized the App too:
FB.api('/me/friends', (response) => {
if (response && !response.error) {
/* handle the result */
}
}

Post a message on Facebook using FB.api

I write down a code in javascript for posting message on Face-Book. I posted it successfully but it's always showing only me privacy statement.
I really want to post this message publicly.
I try to set privacy = { 'value': 'EVERYONE' }; . still message posting private(only me).
My code is-
var privacy = { 'value': 'EVERYONE' };
var txt = 'my post to test feed post using api';
FB.api('me/feed', 'post', { message: txt, privacy: privacy }, function (response) {
if (!response || response.error) {
alert(JSON.stringify(response.error));
} else {
alert('Post ID: ' + response.id);
}
});
How can i post it publicly ?
thanks a bunch for your valuable help.
Did you manually set the privacy of the application when you added your application? If you go to your Facebook Settings, see what you set your application to. The privacy parameter is restricted to what the user sets on their account.
E.g. If the user has set "Friends", but the app uses "Public", then the user's preference is used. But if the user has set "Public", but the app uses "Friends", then the app's setting is used, as it's more restrictive than the User's settings.
In short, the most restrictive privacy setting between the User and Application will take priority.

How to get the post of the user using javascript sdk

I am creating my first facebook app using javascript sdk. In that i can able to post to the user's wall using(FB.api('me/feed', 'post', )).
Now what I need is, when the user accessing my app, it has to show (or list) the post of that user. The code is
FB.api('/me/posts', function(response) {
for (var i=0, l=response.length; i<l; i++) {
var post = response[i];
alert('The value of post is:'+post);
if (post.message) {
alert('Message: ' + post.message);
} else if (post.attachment && post.attachment.name) {
alert('Attachment: ' + post.attachment.name);
}
}
});
But it is not working. If I remove l=response.length and change the condition as i<5 it is going inside the loop but it gives the value of post is undefined.
I didn't get why it is returning as undefined. It returns same for post.message also.
I am getting the access_token of the user also.
If I want to get the post of my user what code i have to use. Can anyone help me in this.
Thanks in advance
You can use the Facebook Graph API Explorer to better understand what data you will be receiving. https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/
You should have l=response.data.length and var post = response.data[i];. Also, some posts will not have a "message", but will have a "story" instead (mainly posts like "Joe Smith and Tom Someone are now friends."). Make sure you also have the appropriate permissions (e.g. user_status) for the information you're trying to receive.

Facebook Graph API Posting a Comment as User

I am trying to build a comments method within a website without the Facebook comments plugin.
It's a photogallery portion of a website and all the photos are actually hosted on the business Page, I'm doing this to make use of FBs uploading, resizing/rotate etc rather than having to build that myself too.
As a happy bi-product to this I figured I could link comments on the website with comments on FB and have a syncrhonised comments system whereby comments posted on either site (my website or FB) will show equally on either site.
So, I have worked out how to post the comments, but it is always posting as the Business Page, not the logged in user.
This code posts the comment, the variable obj is the ID of the photo on Facebook. msg is obviously the comment text. I have setup methods to get the correct permissions where required which are called if the response from the post states that this is needed.
FB.api('/' + obj + '/comments',
'post',
{ "message": msg,
"access_token": accessToken,
"from": uid
}, // do the post
function (response) { // check the response
if (!response || response.error) { // if there's an error
// DO STUFF WITH ERRORS/REQUEST PERMS ETC
} else {
alert("Msg posted id: " + response.id);
};
});
Everything above works, but when the comment appears, it is always showing from: my Page ID not, what I need which would be from: my user id
accessToken and UID is being retrieved as follows:
FB.getLoginStatus(function (response) {
if (response.status === 'connected') {
uid = response.authResponse.userID;
accessToken = response.authResponse.accessToken;
}
});
The para from in the first function there posts the User ID, NOT the page ID, but whether that para is there or not, it always posts the comment as the Page.
It's frustrating the hell out of me as so far this has been pretty simple to achieve!

Post on Friends' Wall(s) via Facebook Actionscript 3 SDK

I'm absolutely new to programming and just managed to learn the basics of ActionScript 3. Now, I would like to learn how to post on my Friends' Walls via the as3 SDK using the UI class (taken from a nice Tutorial):
This is how I post on my own Wall:
protected function newsFeed ():void
{
// define your caption text
var theCaption:String = "CaptionText";
// define the descrition text
var theDescription:String = "Text for game Achievement";
// We need to follow the FB docs to tell it what sort of input we are sending to FB
// We are trying to set the 'feed'
var methodInput:String = 'feed';
var thePicture:String = "mylink/picture.png";
var theLink:String = "mylink";
var theName:String = "Name of FB Status Setter";
// Create an object that we'll call 'data' and fill it with the actual data we're sending to Facebook
var data:Object = {
caption:theCaption,
description:theDescription,
picture:thePicture,
name:theName,
link:theLink
};
Facebook.ui(methodInput, data, onUICallback);
}
protected function onUICallback(result:Object):void
{
// do something
}
This works perfectly fine. I know that I have to integrate the parameter "to" somewhere. But I don't know where and how. Sorry I'm very very new to this. This is from Facebook Docs
Properties
from: The ID or username of the user posting the message. If this is unspecified, it defaults to the current user. If specified, it must be the ID of the user or of a page >that the user administers.
to: The ID or username of the profile that this story will be published to. If this >is unspecified, it defaults to the the value of from.
Hopefully someone can help me out.
Best Regards,
Amir
P.S.: Is there a way to post only one friend's wall and another way to post on several friends' walls?
I believe you want to use Facebook.api() rather than 'ui'. According to the documentation for the AS3 FB API, 'ui' just opens the share dialog. If you want to create a post on a friends wall, then you'll want to use 'api'.
I haven't tested this in Flash, but I think you can set the method as /PROFILE_ID/feed ... of course replacing "PROFILE_ID" with the FB uid of the friend. Then, include the arguments; message, picture, link, name, caption, description and source in your data object.
So your code would look something like:
var method:String = "/friend_id/feed";
var data:Object = {};
data.message = "Your message";
data.picture = "http://www.google.com/kittens.jpg";
data.link = "http://www.mysite.com/link";
data.caption = "Your caption";
data.description = "Your description";
data.source = "http://www.mysite.com/video.swf";//(optional) source is a video or Flash SWF
Facebook.api(method, yourCallback, data, "POST");
function yourCallback(result:Object, fail:Object):void {
if (result) {
trace(result)
} else if (fail) {
trace(fail);
}
}
If you have multiple friends, you could probably just put the uid's in an array and loop through the method above. The AS3 API has a batch request method that I haven't tried, but you can check out the Documentation.
Facebook has some pretty helpful tools that are somewhat hidden.
Checkout their Debugger and their Graph API Explorer
Hope that's helpful.