I may be messing up with some ethics of asking here, and I apologize for that but I have a project in mind and to target new users I have an approach. Please read below, and allow my amateurity some leeway.
Suppose user1 gets on my site and enters the facebook profile URL of user2. Now user2, who has never visited my site, doesnt know of it, doesnt have an accoutn on it or anything, gets a notificatoin on his facebook that user1 has entered his profile url or has involved user2 in osme activity.
Does the faceabook API allows this? I've a friend who has used facebook GRAPH but he's unsure about this. Can any of you please direct me?
Secondly, if that requires me to create** a facebook app of the website(the app will grab the notification first and then forward it to target's facebook notifications), do facebook apps/developer cert. cost something?
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We have a platform where users get logged in with Facebook. Now on customers demand, we want to provide a feature where we will request logged in users profile link at the time of login via user_link permission and user can share that link to anyone with just one tap. And on the other end, the other user who will receive this link will able to see (on facebook app or on Web) the sender's profile and if interested they can get connected.
But the issue is, I am not able to see user profile got as user_link. Its seems like I can only use this link if he or she is already my friend. If so then how can I implement this feature in my app? also if I am wrong at any point please correct me.
Its seems like I can only use this link if he or she is already my friend.
That’s exactly what the documentation says, https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/user:
link: A link to the person's Timeline. The link will only resolve if the person clicking the link is logged into Facebook and is a friend of the person whose profile is being viewed.
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If so then how can I implement this feature in my app?
You can’t; Facebook has deliberately designed this feature with this restriction, to better protect people’s privacy.
I'm working on a Facebook app that requires a few basic permissions (email, birthday, etc) as well as publish_actions (so I can create stories about user interaction).
When I ask for these permissions, the end user is presented with one screen for the basic permissions and yet another for the publish_actions permission.
However, when I looked at the following app from Amazon:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/socialmedia/promotions/SprngSweep
When I click on the enter button, I am redirected to Facebook to ask for permissions (as expected), however, they have all their permissions one page (Amazon would like to access your public profile, friend list, email address, birthday, photos, videos, personal description, likes and your friends' birthdays and likes. Amazon would like to post on your behalf. Amazon would like to access your data at any time.)
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The url that I'm redirect to is this:
https://www.facebook.com/dialog/oauth?client_id=164734381262&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2Fgp%2Fsocialmedia%2Ffbr%2Fconnect-handler.html%2Fref%3Dfbr_hn_SprngSweep%3Fie%3DUTF8%26appName%3DAmazon%26externalApp%3DKindle%26onSuccess%3D%252Fgp%252Fsocialmedia%252Fpromotions%252FSprngSweep%253Fie%253DUTF8%2526sm-sweeps_submit%253D1%2526sm-sweeps_submit.x%253D66%2526sm-sweeps_submit.y%253D20%2526sweepsConnect%253D1%2526sweepsEligibility%253D1%26ref%3DSprngSweep%26token%3D6CBF36BD25311891B2F205333EFA3AA78E561AB9&scope=
While attempting to investigate this myself, I noticed that they aren't even passing a value for scope in the url.
How the hell are they doing this?
Most likely they are using an old API (FB changed the behavior over there recently, read their blogs please) or they are using hidden features which FB created for them (as this has an impact on there advertising revenue obviously, and even these guys are "coin operated").
The "two pager" is normal, FB API and FB advertising API quit the same. I wouldn't worry.
I have the task to integrate some commercial sharing stuff into a website.
The idea is that the user a) logs in/registers in the website, b) the user connects his user account with his facebook account - by adding and accepting the website application.
Here comes the interesting part - is there a way of linking the facebook account with my website's account so that I can send them updates and promotions directly to their walls programatically?
In the application dialog, it's clearly noted that the user allows the application to write to the user wall so they accept and agree this. Then, for example, if I want to send them a promotion or update directly on their wall using the fb application api, how can I achieve this? All the tutorials I've read consider the user using the Facebook Login
The concrete idea is something like weekly promotion feed that my clients want to allow customers to allow being posted directly on their walls. As I don't have any experience with facebook development, I'd appreciate knowing how, if at all possible, this can be achieved?
Most of what you're suggesting is against policy, and isnt' technically possible either as users need to come back to the app once every 60 days for you to have a valid access_token for them.
The Authentication docs explain how to get access to a user's information with their permission, and the Permission documentation explains which permissions grant access to which functions or fields.
I have a wp7 app that connect with facebook and lets assume i have the users access token
I am wondering if it is possible to write on the wall of some company facebook page as the user. (i have no ownership of the facebook page and not affiliated with it in any way)
If it is, do you know which permission do i need to obtain ? would love to get any kind of code snippet or a direction i should follow.
Thanks.
it's not possible to write on the wall on behave of the user. You always get a token in the context of a Facebook application - so it will be the app posting on the wall, not the user. And the maximum permission app can ask a user for is publish_stream which allows you (your app actually) to:
Enables your app to post content, comments, and likes to a user's
stream and to the streams of the user's friends.
so in order to post to the company wall, you need to:
Request publish_stream permission from the user
Issue a post request to https://graph.facebook.com/<>/feed url with your message
It's really easy to test. Go to https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer, click on "Get access token", select "publish_stream" permission in "Extended" tab, set action to POST, enter "LGUSA/feed" into URL field, click on "Add a field", enter "message: test" and click POST. You will get ID of your post back. See screenshot attached
Sorry this is going to be a bit vauge, but here goes:
First the user is going to have to be authenticated to facebook. There is a good example here. This will give you an authentication tolken to allow you to interact with the API.
The user is going to need facebook permissions to write to the wall. Facebook permissions are described here. I don't know about the specifics of your problem, but with more details I may be able to help more.
then you shoud be able to post to the appropiate wall using the facebook graph api (you'll probably need to be signed up to facebook with a developer account to get to this page).
I'd like to know if there is a possibility to check (using Graph API or any other way) whether given user likes / shares a specific link. Probably I'll have this user's facebook ID or facebook login, but my site is non-Facebook application. Actually it's Dot Net Nuke portal (target: .NET with MS SQL Server) with part of it being avaliable as Facebook app, but certainly not greater part of it, so the solution should be out of Facebook Connect, although it's not a showstopper if it's necessary.
We'll be giving points to users who share/like most of links that we serve in our portal and such possibility would be a great help to make a ranking.
Another option we consider is making some kind of "wrapper" or proxy for FB like / share buttons which will at first save some data in our database (probably - this user clicked on like for this link) and then go on with standard FB like / share route. Did anybody of You tried such solution?
If You have any other suggestion on the subject, please, post them, we'll be really thankful.
It is possible to know if a user has LIKED a site or not. You can get all user's likes with Graph API (you need user_likes permission). Take a look at the docs: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/user/
I'm not sure if you can know if he has shared your site, but you could try by parsing his wall with the read_stream permission and then look for your site name/URL post by post.
For just general liking of items on your site, you can use a Facebook Social Plugin. However, you won't be able to associate (or really even access) user activity with users on your site without integrating Facebook Connect and creating a Facebook application for your site. At that point you can design with greater control all the possible user activity and interleave with your facebook calls other calls that affect users' accounts on your site.