I'm currently building a Social Media Dashboard where I'm doing a huge amount of data analysis for various social media providers. I'm now at the stage of doing analysis for a user's Facebook friends. One thing I'd like to do is analyse how many of a user's friends has passed (meaning their account has become a memorialized account). Does the Facebook Graph API offer any information about this?
I've done a fair amount of research on this topic, but I could only find information regarding the process of declaring an account memorialized:
From Facebook FAQ:
How do I report a deceased user or an account that needs to be
memorialized and deactivated or
deleted?
Memorializing the account:
Please report this information here so
that we can memorialize this person’s
account. Memorializing the account
restricts profile access to confirmed
friends only. Please note that in
order to protect the privacy of the
deceased user, we cannot provide login
information for the account to anyone.
We do honor requests from close family
members to close the account
completely.
Removing the account:
Immediate family
members may request the removal of a
loved one’s account. This will
completely remove the account from
Facebook so that no one can view it.
We will not restore the account or
provide information on its content
unless required by law. If you are
requesting a removal and are not an
immediate family member of the
deceased, your request will not be
processed, but the account will be
memorialized.
To make a request to memorialize or
remove a profile, please do so here.
If you have a special request
regarding a deceased user's account,
please use this form. Please note that
this form is only to be used for
accounts that have already been
memorialized.
Does anyone know if Facebook will ever add support for this within their API? A field called is_memorialized from a Graph API profile response would be enough for my needs at the moment.
Should I contact Facebook about this?
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Hello Facebook Developers Community,
I am trying to go through the 'Request for App Review' process for which I have completed all the steps besides one which is very confusing and literally has no useful guidance anywhere.
The dashboard shows visual checkmarks on all the steps completed besides the 'Your submission must include pages_read_engagement to use instagram_basic'
Just a brief background on what i am trying to do:
I am only trying to get the facebook developer access approved to go live to use 'Instagram Basic Display' and the api's to allow my application users to connect their instagram account and fetch only single images posted on their account to be displayed with in my application.
We have already gone through the 'Business Verification' process and already have that approved as well as having the facebook business account connect to our instagram account.
the only help i came across was on 'Pages Api' docs which mentions that
'The pages_read_engagement permission allows your app to read content (posts, photos, videos, events) posted by the Page, read followers data (including name, PSID), and profile picture, and read metadata and other insights about the Page. The allowed usage for this permission is to help a Page Admin administer and manage a Page. You may also use this permission to request analytics insights to improve your app and for marketing or advertising purposes, through the use of aggregated and de-identified or anonymized information (provided such data cannot be re-identified).'
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/permissions/reference/pages_read_engagement
for which none of those endpoints I am using or plan on using at all and not sure how it even got added.
I am really not sure what else to do and what pages_read_engagement has to do with my app to be approved.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
In some CRM applications, I've seen functionality which looks like it is pulling FaceBook feeds for private profiles of other users/customers... how is this done? One example of this functionality is from Nimble: http://www.nimble.com/how-it-works/contact-management/
From everything I've read about the FaceBook API[s], they can only be used to pull information for the currently authenticated user or their friends, depending on the requested access. Am I simply misunderstanding the product, and it's just a mock-up showing the logged-on user's/friend's information that wouldn't actually be useful in the context of a CRM application? If not, I would like to develop a CRM tool to view the FaceBook details for any user, does anyone know where to start? Does FaceBook allow businesses to pay to access that information?
Any clarification would be appreciated.
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 want to add the 'Log in with Facebook' option to my website, however I'm unsure how to integrate the information gained when someone logs into my website with Facebook with my current Google Analytics.
Is it possible to link up a visit in Google Analytics with a user who has logged into the site with Facebook to enable me to see things like age, gender etc?
Any help you can give me on this would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Ben
you may have to do this via a redirection or possibly a frame.
Google Analytics does nolt track individual users, it provides anonymized data. So at the top level, no you cannot do this. However, there are a few more things avaiable to you. One: Facebook provides facebook insights, their own tracking suite, that will give you demographic information on the users of a facebook app or fan page. You site will effectively become a facebook app when you use their user authenication, so you will be able to get insights tracking on you site. At the present moment, facebook insights and google analyitcs do not itegrate or share data. Facebook insight also provides anonymized data, so you will not be able to identify an individual through the tracking.
The final option is, now that you are tracking users through login, you can implement your own tracking info on your site to see what individual users are doing, and attempt to track their preferences.
Its also entirely legal (in the United States at least) to buy access to marketing data and use use your registered user name pool to get additional information.
If you wanted, you could set up a "funnel" in Google.
When a user logs in through Facebook, you could send them to a specific page and then track their progress from there...
http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?answer=55515
So using this you could get the percentage of users who log in through Facebook... etc.
But to collect information other than that, you would have to get the correct permissions documented here eg. user_birthday (to get the user's Birthday) and query the Graph API from there, thus implementing your own tracking of users.
You can query the Graph API using the various SDKs that Facebook provide explained here.
First of all you should check out this Google document. It explains, how you set a custom unique user id via google analytics.
Further you've to send an event to google analytics (e.g. 'fb_login') via the callback function of your facebook login function.
According to the Facebook Platform Policies:
You must not pre-fill the user_message
parameter or content sent via an
extended permission (such as a status
update or note), unless the user
generated the content earlier in the
workflow.
Does that mean that I can't publish stories to the stream automatically, even if the user agreed to?
I've seen apps (such as PlayStation Network, Foto Diaria) that publish stories automatically.
PlayStation Network publishes stories about actions you did in PS3 games and Foto Diaria publishes a picture from your wall every day. In both cases the attachment is created by the application, and the user message is empty. Could that mean that publishing stories with an empty user message (empty, not absent) is not considered pre-filling?
EDIT: I need to know what is allowed or not by the Facebook Platform Policies, not how to post stories.
If you ask the user for the publish_stream extended permission then you'll be able to post automatically whilst the user is interacting with the application. You can pre-fill the user message only if it's something that the user has entered earlier in the process e.g. if you've asked them to comment on a piece of content and then publish a story about the comment. If in doubt, leave it blank.
If you want to publish automatically even when the user isn't online then you'll also need them to grant the application the offline_access extended permission. In this case you'll also need to store the session key that Facebook gives you for that user.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/guides/policy/examples_and_explanations/stream_stories/
Check this out. The Platform policies section of the FB Dev site has some additional documents to allow you gain a better understanding of the guidelines for sharing.
Please also read the section about User Feedback.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/guides/policy/examples_and_explanations/user_feedback/
Hope this helps.
We can ask user to grain of offline_access permission, which is access to user profile at anytime, even if user is not online. But this permission will no longer available.
I agree that this permission is so harmful to user.
But it still useful if owner app want to post to their own account during user use their app. If you want to post to your self account, you can manually grain offline_access to your app, and select access_token and keep it in your own app, and use it when you need to post your account. It make sense that Facebook should allow developer to do this task.
it is simply forbidden but, there is a catch about it, if is text prepared by user previously, you can post that text later and I think you are able to add your own text to that. But not so sure..
I'm saying this based on McDonald's Canada's yourquestions app, you can ask questions to them, whenever its answered they posting to your wall.
But to clarify that, as a PMD I'll ask to FB personally and let you know what is the answer is.