We are a ads company, and we have a page on FB. We are trying to use ads API to create tons of newsfeed ads. In my experiment a newsfeed ad is created successfully, but it's displayed on our page as well. When there're tons of ads, our page will be flooded. I know I can change the post to be hidden, or use unpublished post, but will FB users be able to view such ads? I mean, I want these ads to be advertised by FB on user's wall but not on our company's wall.
I know I can change the post to be hidden, or use unpublished post,
That is how you create news feed ad for a post from your page which is not not on the Page's timeline. It's documented here and the feature exists for the exact use-case you've outlined in your question : https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/page/#unpub_scheduled_posts
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Facebook comments plugin - as far as I understand, if I have put the facebook comments plugin on a post web page, and the permalink of the post being commented on matches the base URL, then comments are stored via facebook using my post permalink.
Lets say if I post the permalink onto my facebook page wall (which I am the admin of), the open graph tags come into play, all the relavant data is pulled in, fb:admins, fb:app etc.
But is it possible to connect my facebook page (using my facebook page ID) to that permalink - so that comments posted on the page using comment plugin, connect/link with the post comments on my facebook page wall?
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This is currently not possible. We've implemented custom solution using Facebook Application and Facebook Javascript SDK on the website itself. You need to query the comments table of a specific Page post via FQL using your app access token from your server to retrieve all comments and render them on the page.
Then you need to provide user with several entry points for several states in order to enable posting for them. You need to solve four cases:
User doesn't like the page and didn't authorize your app
User doesn't like the page and authorized your app
User likes the page and didn't authorize your app
User likes the page and authorized your app
User needs to like your page and authorize your app with publish_stream permission in order to be able to comment on your page posts via your website. Of course you need to maintain reference between posts on your page and posts on your website.
The website where we did this a few years ago is BIGGBOSS click on "Komentáře" and find the same post on Facebook with the same comments.
As far as I understand your question its not possible to connect the comments from the commentbox, integrated in your non-facebook page (e.g a blog of yours), to the comments which are posted to a post on your fanpage.
The only solution would be to build an custom commentbox with the open-graph and publish the comments to the fanpagepost and additionally extract the comments out of the fanpage to display them on your blog.
But this requires accepting permission dialog before people are able to comment on your blog which would probably decrease the comments made. You would lose the benefit of the built-in commentbox.
Is there anything I need to do to make posts users make on their wall via a custom ios application using it's own facebook app id, also appear on app's (facebook app it uses I mean) own facebook page?
I would expect this to appear automatically but it doesn't seem to be the case.
In order to read one's Facebook wall, you need the access token to authenticate reading. This will give you access to all non-public wall posts. From this, you can pass the newly posted content to your page through the feed action.
Reference: http://php-academy.blogspot.com/2011/04/how-to-post-from-facebook-app-to.html
Enjoy and good luck!
I created a Facebook APP which is being used for FB Connect Feature... everything is working fine.
But now I would like to display my APP on the Wall and News Feed, and also give the user the opportunity to share my APP.
How can I do this? I searched on Google and checked the Facebook API but couldn't make it.
Check out the Facebook Social Plugins...
Here you will find methods to embed share and like buttons on your site. When users interact with these social plugins, stories will be created on their feed and their friends will see this activity.
I'm tring to send customized news to my users via Facebook.
I've tried posting private posts to their walls, so they show up on their news feed, but people got upset by the new posts on their wall (even though noone else can see them)
Is there a way to do this?
I considered building a page per user and suggest to the user to follow it - can this be done via API?
Can a user follow updates on just any page (non fan page) that he Liked, or that has a FB comments box?
Alternatively, can I programatically send Facebook notifications?
You can try creating a single Page for your app. Then when a user connects with your app, auto-follow that page so that all posts to that page show up in the user's feed.
Now just add new posts to that Page with privacy settings targetted at just that user.
Thats my off the cuff answer.
I have a web app that is connected to facebook graph, and thus have a corresponding facebook app. I'm looking for a means of communicating with the users of my app through their facebook feed.
So far I've asked the users to like the facebook application profile page for my app, so that when I post news on that wall, the users get it. This causes some confusion since the application profile page is a bit of a peripheral component in the webapp-facebook relationship.
Ideally I would be able to post on facebook either as the app, so that I reach all the registered users, or as the app url (www.myapp.url) so that users who like that url will get the posts. Alternatively somehow link the application profile page and the url/app, so that likers of the url or users of the app get the profile page posts.
Note that I'm not looking to post to users walls (just their feeds) and I'd prefer to post manually, using facebooks interface for posting.
The only ways you can publish into a user's news feed is to use a Facebook Page or a Facebook Open Graph Object. So, you did right by asking users to like your Facebook Application Page. If you've also got a webpage that people like, you can turn that webpage into an Open Graph object by adding an fb:app_id or fb:admins meta tag to the head of the page. Doing this grants you access to publish to your fans' news feeds, and you get access to a Facebook page-like interface (for administration purposes only). You can publish to the user's feed using this feed publisher (just like you would do if your Graph object were any other Facebook Page).
To get to the admin page you just have to make sure your Facebook User ID is in the fb:admins meta tag. Once it is, visit a like button social widget for that object, and you'll get the a link that lets you go to the admin page for the object.
I hope that's clear. You should probably give the Open Graph Protocol Documentation a good read.