unload filepicker from a page - filepicker.io

Is there a way to unload filepicker from a webpage?
I'm building an app using Meteor. I want to give only logged in users to have access to filepicker. Each use gets his own unique key. I want to destroy all references to filepicker once the user logs out.
Apart from the JS and the initialized filepicker object, I noticed there is an iframe being introduced by filepicker. Are there any more artifacts being loaded into browser as part of filepicker? Is there a safe way to unload all the filepicker specific elements from the page?

The iframe is used for cross-domain communication, and will not leak any information, etc. if it remains in. However, if you want to remove all elements introduced by Filepicker.io, then yes deleting the script tag and the filepicker js object, along with the filepicker_comm_iframe should do the trick

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populating an input element within an flt-glass-pane in WebView

I have an Android application that has a WebView in it, it opens an external website that is supposed to be populated by my application. There is no issue populating it using javascript
(document.getElementById('id').value='something')
if it's an ordinary website.
However, the site that I am having trouble with is done in Flutter so it is making use of Dart.js. The form elements are not accessible and will always return null with any selector.
I have tried document.getElementsByTagName, document.querySelector and document.evaluate for xpath but the result is the same.
The goal of the application is to autofill the site with its profile data.
EDIT: I've done some reading and found out that it makes use of Shadow DOM which I am not familiar to, I was able to pull the value but it doesn't accept any changes
(document.firstChild.nextSibling.childNodes[2].childNodes[10].shadowRoot.childNodes[5].value)

Events triggering loading content on Facebook's timeline

I am working on Apache Nutch modification project. We already swapped Nutch's original module with ours built using HtmlUnit. I need to download whole Facebook user site (ex. http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002517096832), which is going to be parsed using our own parser. Unfortunately Facebook is using mechanism called BigPipe (http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=389414033919). That's why most of current website is hidden in <.!-- --> tags.
Usually when we scroll down Facebook page, new content is being unpacked every time we are about to hit bottom of the page. I have tried to use Javascript that scroll my htmlPage (HtmlPage object from HtmlUnit project), but finally I realized that scrolling is not triggering loading new content on Facebook user site.
How can I check, what event on page triggers loading content on current Facebook page? Maybe I should approach problem from different side, for example try to extract BigPipe "things" on my own? Have you ever did that?
Before dealing to your question … what kind of project are you trying to build there?
Since Apache Nutch is an open source web-search software, I think you are trying to build some kind of search engine, that scrapes Facebook user profiles/feeds to get data and make it searchable on some third-party website?
Well, that would be a violoation of Facebook Platform Policies:
I. Features and Functionality
12. You must not include data obtained from us in any search engine or directory without our written permission.
So, do you have that written permission?

webkit .appcache file caches dynamic page

The main page of my mobile web app is a .jsp page. My app requires login (Google App Engine), so there is a Log In button when the user is not logged in and a Log Out button when the user is logged in, all handled by code on the .jsp page.
I load a lot of JS code on the page, so I used a .appcache file to cache that. Unfortunatelly, even though I added my .jsp page to the Network area, the page is being cached in a funny way, ignoring the content server from the server. That means that my Log Out button shows when users are Logged Out and vice-versa.
I tried to add no-cache directives as meta tags, but they are all being ignored.
Ideas?
According to dive into HTML5, the page that references the manifest is automatically included in the manifest.
http://diveintohtml5.ep.io/offline.html
Q: Do I need to list my HTML pages in my cache manifest?
A: Yes and no. If your entire web application is contained in a single page, just make sure that page points to the cache manifest using the manifest attribute. When you navigate to an HTML page with a manifest attribute, the page itself is assumed to be part of the web application, so you don’t need to list it in the manifest file itself. However, if your web application spans multiple pages, you should list all of the HTML pages in the manifest file, otherwise the browser would not know that there are other HTML pages that need to be downloaded and cached.
I have a similar issue, and I think I will end up loading the contents of the page via AJAX.
Caching in appCache is a two stage process: first the cache manifest is checked (in this case, as the page is loading), then if the content of it has changed, that content is reloaded. However, in your case, by that time, the stale page is already loaded and displayed.
The easiest fix would be to specifically exclude the page (but not the .js) from the appCache, so that only the js is cached, and not the page. I sounds like you might have figured that out, as you are trying to do it by putting the page in the network area. Check that that exclusion is correct, as that sounds like the problem, and that html cache attributes are being set correctly on that page.

Facebook app: Random quotes not refreshing on each page load

I have a Facebook app written in php that will display random quotes on your profile.
The box does not appear to update, it looks like it did when it was originally added.
I want to update the profile boxes on each page load (refresh), and not by a user action like clicking a link.
Any idea what is the problem and how to solve it?
This is how I did it for The Office Quotes application:
Put the random quote inside an image (many options to do this in PHP, I used the GD and Image Functions at http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.image.php to create a JPG containing the quote).
Accessing this dynamic image in a browser gives you a different random quote each time you refresh.
On the Facebook profile box or tab, simply link this image.
However, Facebook caches the image the first time it's loaded, so it never updates!
To force Facebook to update, you must update Facebook's image cache for the image's URL using the API function fbml.refreshImgSrc which is now accessed via the URL http://api.facebook.com/methods/fbml.refreshImgSrc and requires the access_token parameter like all other API requests. There was an announcement some time ago that this function was being deprecated, but the decision was reversed!
Setup the cache refresh code to run regularly. You can do this on a scheduled task (i.e. a cron job) or on each pageview in the application, or any other way you can think of that will cause the method to be run with the relative frequency the image will be requested by a user.
I also linked the image in the profile to a page in the app that would continually reload a new random image. Users generally would click to this page (which would refresh the image cache on each load) and they get the illusion that the image updates constantly.
Another illusion that I like even better is to add a 'Refresh' link in the profile box/tab that links to a script that refreshes the image cache and immediately returns to the user's profile, so that it actually appears to just be refreshing the profile box/tab.
Enjoy!
Profile content is cached by Facebook and does not connect to your server on every page load. This has always worked like this. No javascript runs on load/automatically, so you can't have a new quote displayed on page load.
What you can do is put a bunch of quotes in the profile content and us the fb:random tag to display a random quote on page load from the random option list. Periodically you can run a script to update the set of quotes in the user profile. If quotes are not unique to each user, you should use fb:ref handles so you just have to update the handle content, not each user's profile. Just put the ref handle in the user's profile.
I'm confused. Profiles boxes are all but gone. You shouldn't be developing anything for a profile box right now - it's just gonna disappear any day now anyway.
And even when profile boxes were still a suggested integration point, you couldn't update them in the way you are wanting to.

Grabbing data from an iframe embedded Facebook application

Using an iFrame, someone on my website can access their Facebook account, display a list of their photo albums, and then display photos from selected albums.
At the moment, when the user clicks a photo, I display a dialog box that shows the photo's path.
All of the above works perfectly.
My next step is to pass the photo's path info back to my web page, but I'm not sure how to do that because the object, to which I want to pass the data, is outside of the iFrame and therefore unknown to Facebook. I tried going top-down by referencing it through the DOM that contains the iFrame on my website...
parent.client.document.getElementById("FBPhoto").setValue(photoReference);
...but that didn't work.
Passing the argument to a PHP script, on my site, won't work because I don't want to fresh the page on my site (since that would cause the user to lose data).
From what you've provided it looks like your JS might be wrong.
Doing something like this might get you the value you need:
var photoReference = window.frames["iframe-name"].document.getElementById("FBPhoto");
Then you need to assign it to something:
MyObject.setValue(photoReference);
Note: window.frames["iframe-name"].document.getElementById("FBPhoto") will return the DOM element called #FBPhoto and will therefore be a big chunk of HTML. Your setValue() method might not be expecting that.
I suggest you try running your script in Firefox with Firebug installed, which will allow you to dump the value of photoReference to the console to see what you're getting back.
Doy... I realized that since the Facebook connection was running in a dedicated iFrame, it wouldn't be a problem to re-direct that frame because there was no reason to leave it open anyhow.
For anyone interested, here's what I did...
The PHP (inside of index.php) displays the album photos.
The PHP also surrounds each img frame with href tags.
The link points to a PHP file (on my website) and includes an argument with the location of the large version of the photo (since my app is displaying thumbnails). Something like: "< a href="pathToMySite/get-photo.php?photopath=facebook's path ">
When the user clicks on the desired photo, its respective link calls get-photo.php (on my site) and passes the path for the photo.
get-photo.php then inserts a reference to my website's main JS file into the document head, and inserts a script into the body of the HTML document.
The script calls a JS fetch-photo function, and passes the path argument that it received from the embedded iFrame that was running the Facebook app.
The JS function closes the iFrame (since I'm done with Facebook at that point) and grabs the photo from Facebook.