I need to use Facebook insights more of as analytics tool rather than promotional tool. I dont want to spam my users with lot of notifications on their walls but at the same time I want to gather as much information as I can for users usage on my website.
My website works on facebook data for a user and wanted to check out what features they like most but dont want to publish all these actions on their walls.
Please suggest.
Thanks
Rashmi
Insights can be retrieved only as an array. To read Insights you need
a generic access_token for the publicly available application_active_users metric
a generic app access_token for all Insights for that app
read_insights permissions for all apps, pages and domains owned by this user
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/insights/
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Following are my requirements
created space in website that user can come and sign up with FB or Instagram to integrate their account
Through Graph API for FB and API for Instagram, I can able to view and post the images to FB (post is not possible to instagram)
My requirement would be any activities (like and share ) happened at the FB or Instagram page should receives as notification to my website
I came to know there is no direct APIs available to achieving notifications but I have seen them in "Social Stream" app.
any help would be appreciated on how could achieve this functionality
TIA
You can get likes, comments and posts using API. You can poll them at regular interval, compare new data and create your own notifications.
(You have to get your app approved by Instagram to get API permissions, which may be possible for your usecase, if you do get approval, then its possible to achieve what you are trying to do.)
Please could you help. I have created a website that allows people to upload listings of items they are selling. I want to know how to add the feature where when someone creates a listing, it automatically posts on the user's FB page, with a link to the listing on our website. Is this possible? Would the user have to log into our website using their FB account for this to happen? Thanks everyone for your help.
Martin
You need to create a Facebook App and use Facebook Graph API with publish_actions permissions to do that. Note that the facebook rules prohibit sending fully automated messages that the user has no control, your user must have the ability to edit the message before sending
It's possible to access through Graph API (or any other way) the list of all users logged in the past to my FB app?
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Marcello
There is no way to get that information, unless you store it in your own database.
You can see how many people using Facebook analytics. You cannot see their usernames, email, etc- you might be able to extend the analytics with some development to include those... but they dont come configured out of the box.
Here is a link to Facebook App Analytics:
https://developers.facebook.com/products/analytics
I've got a website I'm doing around a bunch of athletes.
All of these athletes have a Facebook account.
The client wants to show each of these athletes Facebook timelines on their individual profile pages using only their Facebook profile handle that they will provide.
I'm very unfamiliar with the Facebook API but am 99% sure this isn't possible as each of the athletes would have to go to the Facebook developers portal and set up an app right?
Is there any way to achieve this at all?
Nop, you're wrong. Your athletes don't have to setup an app. But, on the other hand, you or the developer responsible for that project, must setup an app at the Facebook developers website.
I'm not going to explain all the process, since the Facebook docs are quite easy to understand.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/
After you setup your facebook app and integrate it with your website, it's time to start asking the athletes authorization you have plenty of ways to do that, you can either use Facebook Login, Dialogs or evenManually Build a Login Flow.
Keep in mind that you have different permissions, here's a full list of the permissions and a small description explaining what's their purpose.
Each athlete would have to grant permissions to your app, then after they do that, you will get an Access Token and the Facebook User ID, usually the Access Token has a short period of life (aprox. 2 hours), but you can trade this Access Token for a long one with a life time of aprox. 60 days. You can read more about Access Tokens here
After your athletes grant permissions to your app, you can access to their timelines. Keep in mind that it won't be exactly as their timeline on Facebook. To grab user info you can either use Graph API nodes, or if need a more complex and detailed info you can query it using FQL
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.