there's only one similar question and it's not been answered. not for me at least.
There are public pages on Facebook, suppose i want to get their photostream ? their album pictures ?
I don't see how the Graph API allows me access since i can't get an access token, if i browse from my browser, NOT LOGGED IN, i can still see this public information, so how do i use the AI to access it.
BTW, i tried scrapping with python+mechanize and it's no go as if u get the regular we photo stream u get only partial, no all of it and the rest you need to scroll or to know how to build the same request the browser is building, but suprise suprise the JS doing the request is obfuscated pretty well...
Any help ?
in short it's not possible to do what i wanted annonymously, moreover at the moment, only some of the API works in the web site by accident only, if u are not logged in FB do not want to let u see any page and anyone, considering the last article about their cooperation with the US gov. it's not surprising.
In any case i just use grease money and FF to get a full page\album and then download the whole thing and i i need scrapping i'll do it on those pages with a script.
basically if i log in i can get a full page using the scripts in script monkey.... though script monkey is easier since he has the browser to parse all the data and works inside the browser...
I gave up after 3 weeks...
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I am using the Instagram Rest API for a simple application and I've hit a bumb.
The call https://api.instagram.com/v1/tags/{tag-name} works fine (I also have the ?accesstoken=XXXXX... appended).
But the call for basic user information is not working. Not in the developer console and not in the browser when modifying my own URL.
Has the method been removed? Is it broken? If no one has an answer for that; How do you contact Instagram to report the broken link?
Thanks to #CnapoB I managed to realise the call wasnt what I was looking for! And also he showed me the Instagram Endpoints doesn't show the easy way!
https://api.instagram.com/v1/tags/{tag-name}?access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN
might as well be
https://api.instagram.com/v1/tags/{tag-name}?client_id=CLIENT_ID
which means you don't have to have the user login to the application etc.
Thank you so much for this!
What I wanted to do was instead this: (example: tyrabanks)
https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/search?q=tyrabanks&client_id=CLIENT_ID&count=1
I tried using this Google Analytics Embed API Demo, of course with my own ClientID (49803909):
Embed API Demo
However, instead of the graphic I should be getting, I only get a blank page. I did follow the instructions quite carefully. Does this work for others? Any ideas of what may be wrong?
PS: Here's the screenshot of where I am getting the id from. #DaImTo was right that just 49803909 wasn't it, but I also tried to full long string and even the service id below (the one with #), all to the same effect (a blank screen). So, is this the wrong screen then?
I think #DalmTo is correct. You're most likely using one of the many other Google Analytics IDs instead of using a valid Client ID (which is not Google Analytics-specific, it's a general ID used for accessing Google APIs), and you're probably getting errors logged to the JavaScript console that say something to that affect.
If you follow the steps in this Embed API Developer Guide, you'll see instructions on how to create a Client ID to use with the Embed API.
I hope I am not duplicating a question. I am banging my head against a wall for several days now. I am adding the Dailymotion PHP SDK to our site, I am using the Dailymotion::GRANT_TYPE_AUTHORIZATION, I am able to authenticate using a static call back url in my API on Dailymotion.
I want to be able to use this from several different scripts on the site. The first will be to call a link up page, so we can capture that a person has linked to Dailymotion. The second will be to upload video's through our system to Dailymotion, to that users account, not mine. I know I could do this with the authentication type of password, but I want to use the API and not have to have the visitor sign in or enter their credentials every time.
Back to the question, I see that the API can have a dynamic url, but I can not figure out how to make this work. If I someone could send me an example of how to enter this in the API section I would appreciate it. This does not work:
http://example.com/dailymotion/[dailymotion_checklogin.php]
nor does something like this:
http://example.com/callback/[dailymotion_upload.php][dailymotion_checklogin.php]
I would appreciate any help.
Thanks
Mrpepik
Replace the [dynamic] part with your dynamic part.
If your redirect URI on your API key is http://example.com/dailymotion/[dynamic], then your real redirect URI could be http://example.com/dailymotion/dailymotion_checklogin.php
In trying to create an "object" page for my first facebook app, I've run into some difficulty. I followed Facebook's Open Graph Tutorial nearly exactly.
After creating an "object" html page with the appropriate <meta property="og:... tags I tried running the URL through the Debugger Tool as suggested in the tutorial but I'm given the following error:
"Facebook URLs aren't scrapable by this Debugger. Try your own."
This page is in the same directory on my company's linux box as the canvas page, and is certainly not a "Facebook URL". If it matters, I'm using an IP instead of a domain name: xx.x.x.xxx/app/obj.html
...
I continued the tutorial anyway, but ultimately it does not seem to want to post a new action/object (is this even right?). I did however manage to get something to work, as in the app timeline view I apparently actioned one of those objects a couple hours ago. I assume this happened when I was pasting curl POST commands into the terminal.
I'm pretty new to the whole open graph, and facebook APIs, etc., so I'm probably operating under false assumptions of some sort, and I've been all over trying different things, but this error seems pretty bizarre to me and I can't seem to resolve it.
UPDATE
I just took the object page and put it on my own personal shared hosting acct. The debugger worked (inexplicably) fine on it, but I couldn't go too far since it's a different domain than the one authorized by my app.
Make sure og:url inside your html page does not point to facebook.
Also, make sure to look at the open graph protocol page (to see you formatted the og tags correctly.
Also, make sure the page is accessible to everyone, not just yourself.
Without knowing the URL it's hard to be sure, but it's most likely that your URL is either including a og:url tag pointing to a facebook.com address, or a HTTP 301/302 redirect to Facebook instead
I have a page I cannot fetch the public profile image from. Why is that, and why does it happen?
The page in question is: (WARNING: NSFW-ish images of strippers, real sorry, only example I could find - no need to view the page anyway)
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Texas-Poolhouse/98758030102
I can access the page through the graph API. Notice that the results tell me the ID is 98758030102, as expected:
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/?method=GET&path=98758030102
And even get the image URL this way too:
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/?method=GET&path=98758030102%2Fpicture
However, using the ID, I cannot fetch the image the way I normally do. I just get a blue question mark:
http://graph.facebook.com/98758030102/picture
Are you sure you're using an access token from a user who can see the page? I can see the correct image when using my own access token - if you're not using an access token you're limited to the information which is publicly available and given the nature of the page it's probably limited to adults only because of its alcohol and/or stripper content.
I realize that this is an old question but I will add my answer for future searchers since this worked for me.
You say that using this as the image URL does not work. http://graph.facebook.com/98758030102/picture
Well I got curious and changed the http:// to https:// and entered my page ID in place of yours and it worked.
I am assuming by turning the connection secure it allows the graphi api to fetch the image.
This URL should work.
https://graph.facebook.com/YOUR_PAGE_ID_NUMBER/picture
Adding the access_token GET parameter to the url makes sure users who are allowed to view the page image will see it (18yo++ in this case). I have, however, not found a way to, through the API, determine when or why pages are not accessible by certain users.