I wonder if it is possible to know whether the user likes facebook page determined without using oauth and using javascript
Hi, I finally found the solution:
Simply make a GET to the following URL:
http://api.facebook.com/restserver.php?method=links.getStats&format=json&urls=https://www.facebook.com/MyFacebookPage
No it is not possible. It was before but it is not allowed or possible anymore
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I have created a Facebook Application which will be used as a Facebook Tab Page. My problem is that I am unable to get the page id.
I want to use this single application for multiple Facebook Page Tabs but the content will vary based on the Page Id.
The code I am trying to use to get the signed_request is using the JavaScript SDK.
FB.getLoginStatus(function(response) {
console.log(response);
})
This can be done with the signed_request parameter, which is passed on to your URL.
The easiest solution is to use the PHP SDK. It offers a function called "getSignedRequest": https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/php/facebook-getSignedRequest
Those are the fields of the signed_request parameter: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/login/signed-request
If you don´t want to use the PHP, you need to parse the parameter on your own. Check out this link for more information and search for "Parsing the Signed Request": https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/using-login-with-games
Edit: you will not get the correct signed_request using the JavaScript SDK. Use PHP (or your server language) for this.
The mistake was that the URL added in the Facebook page tab settings was getting redirected as it did not have a "/"; there was a redirect for SEO added and the URL in the Facebook APP sittings did not have the "/".
So as it was getting redirected Facebook sent the POST variable but we have not handled it. Now it is fixed.
Special thanks to #luschn and #Fran Barbero for all your efforts in this.
I've successfully integrated the comments plugin on a site that requires our own custom login. However, when the user leaves a comment with the option "Post to Facebook" checked, the update on the user's news feed displays "Object moved" as the title of the page instead of the actual title.
Is there a way to specify the title in a metatag or an attribute or some other way that doesn't require the plugin to access the page directly?
No, there really isn't a way to do that. The opengraph tags SHOULD do this, but as far as I can tell Facebook always hits the link in the comment. One thing you may want to do is look out for Facebook's crawler User-Agent string and return an abbreviated form of the page content (but this may run afoul of their rules, so I'm not sure you want to do that without some thought about Facebook's possible reaction).
You can use the Facebook URL Linter (at http://developers.facebook.com/tools/lint) to see what's happening when they try and reach out to your page.
If you're using Open Graph, the page needs to be accessible either publicly -or- you could whitelist the facebook user agent for access - facebookexternalhit/1.1
Actually it's facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php).
See http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-user-agent-string-for-the-Facebook-like-share-crawler.
Firstly i know that the documentation provided by Facebook says that fb:multi-friend-selector can be used in pair with fb:request-form and that it could only sends inviations or requests.
I have more specific need and that is not only to make invitations/requests but also along with the previous to post something on selected friends walls.
I've tried everything but i cant take the id's selected from the fb:multi-friend-selector, so i'm unable to make this posts.
The doucmentation for fb:multi-friend-selector says: This interface includes a series of which are included for selected users in the form that gets submitted to your action URL.
Is it somehow possible to catch this id's?
I'm working on my app in C# .net.
I read in some of the previous posts that is treating problematics similar to mine that is impossible to do this, but i found application that works perfectly in way that i want to make my application.
Thanks in advance,
Ivan
You can access the selected friend's id in the page that you are providing in "action" of fb:request-form.I am working with PHP so i am able to get those selected friend's id as $_REQUEST['ids'].So try some equivalent methods in c# for this.And if you get the friend's id you can publish to their wall.
I need to find a way to know if the reader already liked my page. Is there a method in Facebook API to know this?
The like button handles this for you. It automatically toggles the state of the button depending on whether the user has already liked the page.
If you need this outside the use of the like button, then if your page is not of the type news article, then you should be able to look up whether the user has liked it by using a combination of the graph api and an FQL query to pull out the object id as defined in the documentation
Also, if you're working with an app in an iFrame, Facebook already passes in the signed_request ( https://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/signed_request/ ) a 'page' parameter which among other things lets you know if the current user already likes your page
I know that it was previously possible to display your most recent Facebook statuses on your website as an RSS feed, but it seems they've changed their setup and I can't figure out where to find the feed anymore....
I saw some people searching for this a while ago, but since Facebook just released their new layout, I didn't know if this might have changed again.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Try this for a feed in JSON-format.
http://graph.facebook.com/[uid]/feed
Facebook appears to have killed all the public status feeds in the name of user privacy. The only way to fetch it is to build a facebook application that gets your status updates, and then associating your facebook account with that application to give it permission to access your status updates so it can put them somewhere else.
Thankfully, someone has already done that for us. Just go to http://apps.facebook.com/statusexport/ while logged in to facebook and grant the app permission. Then it will give you a public URL to an RSS feed of your status updates.
Just keep it simple... This is an easy way to load your latest status(es) using graph.facebook.com through curl / php. Includes a quick simple function.
Easiest way to load your latest facebook status
I found this site which you authenticate, and it will then give you a working rss feed.
I have found that it does have some limitations, but you can see it here:
http://www.fbrss.com
If you wan't to display status updates only, you can use:
https://graph.facebook.com/[uid]/posts
This URL will return a JSON string of user [uid]:s status updates.
To get your status feed, follow these instructions:
Log into Facebook
Go to http://www.facebook.com/notifications.php
Click the link titled "Your Notifications" at the bottom of the box to the right of the list of notifications
That will bring you to a feed of your notifications, which is not what you asked for. This url will be something like feed://www.facebook.com/feeds/notifications.php?id=XXXXXX&viewer= XXXXXX&key=YYYYYYYY&format=rss20
Change notifications.php to status.php in the URL (preserving all the URL parameters).
That should be a feed of your status updates.
Start at http://www.facebook.com/notes.php and click on the "My Friend's Notes" link. Change the friends_notes part of the url to friends_status, and you should be good to go.
Programmatically specifying user to query status updates for
(Note: This is a server-side solution)
It's possible the feed you're looking for has been deprecated for security purposes.
Alternatively facebook FQL on the Status table might provide an answer because it allows you to specify the user ID (for example, your own) for which to retrieve status updates, and a time frame can be specified to limit them as desired.
A raw fb FQL query example, for status updates:
select uid,status_id,message
from status
where uid in
(select uid2 from friend where uid1= uid)
AND time > {time in the last week}
The main FQL guide starts here.
Sample
Poking around the Internet you can pick up sample code of FQL code being called from PHP and other platforms.
PHP example:
<?php
$q = "SELECT name FROM user WHERE uid='$id'";
$query = $facebook->api_client->fql_query($q);
?>
The facebook client API library for your platform of choice can be downloaded and used to issue FQL statements.
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There is also a Test Console hosted online for facebook developers to test API statements against their own account.
You can also use a RSS feed generator for your Facebook Statuses (or Photos) like the RSS Feeds application on Facebook.
It will help you generate a RSS feed for all your statuses and photos while maintaining the privacy modes.
Although, I am not a fan of the user interface the application has, but the functionality is what is awesome :)
Theres also anther way to do it..Which is simple and easy...its not an rss feed but a plugin can be developed to output as an rss...Theres a tutorial of it on http://Fourgefeed.com