I am using the GoViral ANE for integrating with Facebook, specifically creating a leaderboard to display in my game.
I would like to highlight the current user's score, but I don't appear to have access to the id that is returned via the APP_ID/scores request.
For example, data is returned in the following format:
{"score":123,"user":{"name":"Colin","id":"1234"}}
The id portion is what I am looking to match to the current user to highlight the score.
I have tried GoViral.goViral.getFbAccessToken() but this is clearly the wrong thing.
I have also tried making a call out to get the current user's score, but it also requires a User Id to make the call, so I am a little stumped on this one.
Searching on Google doesn't seem to return any useful results either.
Thank you for your time.
Ah, it seems I don't need a user id to make the call after all.
The call I was attempting was the following:
From the Facebook developer site:
You can read the score for a person playing your game by issuing a
HTTP GET request to /USER_ID/scores with a user access_token.
With this code:
GoViral.goViral.facebookGraphRequest(
GoViral.goViral.getFbAccessToken() + "/scores",
GVHttpMethod.GET);
However the following call works:
GoViral.goViral.facebookGraphRequest(
"me/scores",
GVHttpMethod.GET);
So using "me" works instead of the user id, which returns:
{"score":123,"user":{"name":"Colin","id":"1234"}}
Allowing me to access the user id.
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YouTube API eventType=live not working, does anyone have an idea why?
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=snippet&channelId=UCmyKnNRH0wH-r8I-ceP-dsg&eventType=live&type=video&key=
Without eventType was working fine (but not now):
https://www.youtube.com/embed/live_stream?channel=UCmyKnNRH0wH-r8I-ceP-dsg&autoplay=1
Looks like YouTube changed something in API, search.list really not returning live broadcast since end of last week.
If you have user's access token you can use https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/liveBroadcasts?part=snippet&broadcastStatus=active&broadcastType=all
endpoint to retrieve if any broadcast is live.
If you do not have user's access token, you can try this answer
but i didn't check it if it is working
Anyway this question looks like to be a duplicate of this question
Right now the YouTube API is not working, specifically for retrieving live streams of a specific channelId. In other words if you are setting channelId in the API call, you will get 0 results.
If you're using an API key rather than OAuth (not sure if OAuth works) the only work around at the moment is to use the API to search for a specific title. Here is my query URL below.
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=id%2Csnippet&type=video&maxResults=20&order=date&q=My+Uniquely+Titled+Livestream&key=[apiKey]
The results returned by the API will be from all of YouTube. (Note: the rest is done serverside) Put the results into an array and discard any that don't match your channelId. Then check the titles in an array and only get the video ID of the one that matches your desired title. That is the basic logic and it is sort of a rigid work around that won't work for most. But at least it will get you what you need until Google fixes the API.
I have created a test user for my app under development (not public yet), and using the access token generated for the test user to call graph API.
The graph API I am trying is search place (/search type=place distance=1000).
And I specify my current location as parameter.
However, I only get the following data in return:
{"data":[]}
If I specify distance=10000, I get a few place names, but this result is totally different from my result with ordinal (non-tester) user.
Using access token for non-test-user, I get 100s or more place names.
Question:
Why this difference?
Any setting needed for test user creation so that its graph API search result is the same as the ordinal user's?
(In case it is a limitation of test user, how I can test an app which use graph API, with a test user?)
Any help or clue is highly appreciated!
The unique code is given to whoever clicked like (only the first time he clicks)
in order to make sure that he is not going to have a unique code again. I have to have his fb id in my database, but I read that it is impossible to know the fb id of someone who clicks like. Is there a solution?
If the like button will be on my fun page, is it possible then?
I have already all the process of generating the unique code, and checking in my db if the code was used or know, I only have to keep in my db also the fb id to make sure he will not get more then once.
Create fangate (differentiate likers non-likers).
Is is_liker get user id with basic permissions.
On return after accepting the permission request check if user already got code.
If user never got code give him. Else display error message.
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'm trying to figure out how to get the name of the Facebook user that left a comment in the Comment Social plugin using FB.Event.subscribe and the comment.create event.
I only see 2 properties on the response object:
response.href: URL of the page that the comment was left on
response.commentID: ID of the comment thread
Is it possible to implement client side code to get the name of the facebook user that left the comment? I'm trying to save an extra roundtrip for my server to make a call the graph API to get all the comments then try to figure out who the user was that left the most recent one. I thought that there might be a way to run an FQL query, but I'm at a loss here.
I figured this would be an obvious thing for the facebook event to expose, but their documentation is so poor I haven't been able to see anything.
Update: I've tried using FB.api as suggested by another user and using /me but I can't use that since hte user leaving the comment hasn't granted me any permissions. This was confusing because they logged in to post the comment in the comment box AND the user's name is public info if you go to the user's facebook page. So I need a way to query the commenting user's name without using /me in FB.api.
This method definitely works to get a name.. but there is a race condition issue if it is a thread that is getting a ton of comments, as the request to get the comments might not get sent before another comment is made:
FB.Event.subscribe('comment.create', function(comment) {
FB.api('comments', {'ids': comment.href}, function(res) {
var data = res[comment.href].data;
console.log(data.pop().from.name);
});
});
This works without the user authenticating your app as well.
After reading TMC's comment below I realized that it is not possible without permissions. If you want to this then you will have to ask every commenter to grant you basic permissions.
ORIGINAL ANSWER
You can use Facebook Javascript SDK function FB.api which works the same way as PHP SDK's api function but returns a JSON string. Have a look at this page for documentation. You might also like to have a look at Comment Object Documentation.
Comment has a property from which gives the id and name of the user.