I am trying to add a ticket_uri to the event that I am creating.
I enabled the "Events Timezone" migration in my app settings.
I am posting on behalf of a user that is manager of the page.
Currently it's not working when I create a new event. The new event has no ticket uri.
If I update the new event, just after it's created, the ticket uri works...
Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?
$fbEvent = $facebook->publish('/events', $event);
if(isset($fbEvent['id']))
{
$facebook->publish('/' . $fbEvent['id'], array('ticket_uri' => 'http://lowiebenoot.be'));
}
Updating right after it's created is just stupid...
You must get a "Page access token" and then post to {page_id}/events. Here's a copy of the steps I've posted a couple of places:
Enable the "Events Timezone migration"
Log into FB as a user that has admin rights on the FB Page that we want events posted to
Use the APPLICATION's ID to build this link to authorize the
managing of pages
https://www.facebook.com/dialog/oauth?client_id=MY_APP_ID&redirect_uri=MY_SITE_URL&scope=manage_pages,create_event&response_type=token
Exchange token for perm (longer token)
https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?client_id=MY_APP_ID&client_secret=MY_CLIENT_SECRET&grant_type=fb_exchange_token&fb_exchange_token=(token from step 3)
Visit this page, find the PAGE you want to post and copy the new
access_token https://graph.facebook.com/me/accounts?access_token=
(token from step 4)
Use this last token (from step 5) and the PAGE's ID to post to post
the event per the instructions at
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/page/#events
Note that if you create a lot of events, you will "spam" every user who Like'd the page. FB recently added the 'no_feed_story' option to prevent this.
Related
So I am building a restaurant app and one of the features I want is to allow a user of the app to see photos from a particular restaurant's Instagram account.
And I want a user to be able to see this without having to login to their Instagram account, so they shouldn't even need an Instagram account for this to work.
So I have read this answer How can I get a user's media from Instagram without authenticating as a user?
And I tried what it said and used the client_id(which I recieved when I registered my app using my personal Instagram account), but I still get an error back saying :
{
meta: {
error_type: "OAuthAccessTokenException",
code: 400,
error_message: "The access_token provided is invalid."
}
}
The endpoint I am trying to hit is :
https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/search?q=[USERNAME]&client_id=[CLIENT ID]
So do I absolutely need an access token for this to work(and thus have to enforce a user to log in) ?
If I do, then is there way to generate an access token somehow without forcing the user log in?
I believe there is a way around this, as the popular dating app Tinder has this desired functionality I am looking for, as it allows you to see photos from people's Instagram account without having to log in! (I have just verified this 5 minutes ago!)
Any help on this would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
Edit April 2018: After facebook privacy case this endpoint is immediately put out of service. It seems we need to parse the JSON embedded in <script> tag directly within the profile page:
<script type="text/javascript">window._sharedData = {"activity_counts":...
Any better ideas are welcome.
You can use the most recent link
GET https://www.instagram.com/{username}/?__a=1
to get latest 20 posts in JSON format. Hope you put this to good use.
edit: other ways aren't valid anymore:
https://www.instagram.com/{username}/media/
Instagram used to allow most API requests with just client_id and without access_token, the apps registered back in the day still work with way, thats how some apps are able to show instagram photos without user login.
Instagram has changes the API specification, so new apps will have to get access_token, older apps will have to change before June 2016.
One way you can work around this is by using access_token generated by your account to access photos. Login locally and get access_token, use this for all API calls, it should not change, unless u change password,if it expires, regenerate and update in your server.
Since the endpoints don't exist anymore I switched to a PHP library -
https://github.com/pgrimaud/instagram-user-feed
Installed this lib with composer:
composer require pgrimaud/instagram-user-feed "^4.0"
To get a feed object -
$cache = new Instagram\Storage\CacheManager();
$api = new Instagram\Api($cache);
$api->setUserName('myvetbox');
$feed = $api->getFeed();
Example of how to use that object -
foreach ($feed->medias as $key => $value) {
echo '<li><img src="'.$value->thumbnailSrc.'"></li>';
}
I'm trying to integrate realtime updates for user pages. I have a callback running on a given HOST url. Having this the subscription creation is:
G = facebook.GraphAPI()
app_token = config['FACEBOOK_APP_ID'] + '|' + config['FACEBOOK_SECRET']
path = config['FACEBOOK_APP_ID'] + '/subscriptions'
post_args = {'access_token' : app_token, 'callback_url' : HOST, 'fields' : 'feed', 'object' : 'page', 'verify_token' : 'token'}
G.request(path, post_args=post_args)
This seems to work just fine and a subscription is created. After this, for a given user I get oauth credentials with perms = ["publish_stream", "offline_access", "manage_pages", "publish_actions", "read_stream"]
Using this access token, I do a subscribe by adding the app to the page tabs:
G = facebook.GraphAPI(access_token)
path = "/%s/tabs" % page['id']
G.request(path, post_args={'app_id' : config['FACEBOOK_APP_ID']}
Now things work.... sort of. First thing is I'm not sure exactly how facebook testing should work in practice. Basically I created a bunch of test users using the app settings on developers page. Then using one of these users, I create two separate pages Page1, Page2 and I registered the app as a tab on these pages. Posts issued from the test users, or from the real user I created the app with are picked up. But I try to find one of the pages from some other real user (so not a test one and not the one I created the app with) and I cant. Even if I copy paste the entire URL, I just get a redirect to the first page. Are those pages only visible inside my own test app/users context ? Should I create a page from my real account and test with that? I'm just curious on how would I go around testing this in a real setup. Would I get ALL comments / posts on that page regardless of the user who does the posting or just posts from the Page / Admins of the page ?
Another separate problem I'm having is creating a comment from some user. So I'm using the exact same access token I've got above, and having a post from someone come it, I want to issue a reply in the form of a comment on that post. I have the facebook post id, so I just:
graph = facebook.GraphAPI(access_token)
graph.put_comment(facebook_post_id, message)
Say I issue this command using the access token I got from TestUser1 on a post that came on his own page Page1 . I would expect that the comment be posted on behalf of TestUser1 but instead it gets posted on behalf of Page1 . Is this expected as a side effect of the token I'm using? I've read here https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/access-tokens/ that there are user access tokens and page access tokens; but I've tried the exact same thing with a token without the 'manage_pages' perms and still get the same thing.
Cheers, Bogdan
There is a public Facebook event, for example: http://www.facebook.com/events/197276753679964/
I want to get information about this event using Facebook graph API.
I'm using this query url: http://graph.facebook.com/197276753679964
Facebook returns "false", but event is existing and public, so what's the problem?
There are a few more events with this annoying behaviour, but other ~95% I can read succesfully using FB graph API.
If the event is owned by a group or page which is restricted demographically, you can only access that even with the access token of a user who can see the event / page.
(this appears to be the case with the example in this question)
In general (one current bug excepted), 'false' means a privacy check failed
Facebook's real-time updates docs now say that you can get the feed for a page:
You can subscribe to the page's feed in the same way you subscribe to
a user's feed - the subscription topic should be 'user' and the
subscription field should be 'feed'
My understanding of this is that I need to post to the graph API to subscribe as such:
curl -d \
"object=user&fields=feed&callback_url=$CALLBACKURL&verify_token=$SECRET" \
"https://graph.facebook.com/$PAGEID/subscriptions?access_token=$OAUTHTOKEN"
(This is a bash script.) Here $CALLBACKURL is set up correctly following their example code. (At least I think it's correct -- I can successfully add subscriptions with it.)
The $OAUTHTOKEN is the one for my Facebook App.
And the $PAGEID is the facebook object id of the page I'd like to get realtime updates for.
When I do this, the call appears to work -- no error message. My callback gets called. But I certainly don't get notified when something happens on the page's feed.
So what's missing? Does the page need to install the app whose oauth token I'm using? Or do I somehow need to get an oauth token for the page itself by logging in as the page?
I do not know if this can help you but I'll tell you where I am for real-time update page feed:
(permissions : manage_page,offline_access,read_stream)
your application must be linked to the page (then install the application but not required to have a tab ex. create tab https://graph.facebook.com/PAGE_ID/tabs?app_id=APP_ID&method=POST&access_token=PAGE_ACCESS_TOKEN and delete tab
TAB_ID=PAGE_ID.'/tabs/app_'.APP_ID;
https://graph.facebook.com/TAB_ID?method=DELETE&access_token=PAGE_ACCESS_TOKEN)
function page_access_token($page_id,$access_token){
$page_token_url="https://graph.facebook.com/" .
$page_id . "?fields=access_token&" . $access_token;
$response = file_get_contents($page_token_url);
$resp_obj = json_decode($response,true);
$page_access_token = $resp_obj['access_token'];
return $page_access_token;
}
function page_tabs_create($page_id,$app_id,$page_access_token){
$page_settings_url = "https://graph.facebook.com/" .
$page_id . "/tabs?app_id=".$app_id."&method=POST&access_token=" . $page_access_token;
$response = file_get_contents($page_settings_url);
$resp_obj = json_decode($response,true);
return $resp_obj;
}
function page_tabs_delete($tab_id,$page_access_token){
$page_settings_url = "https://graph.facebook.com/".$tab_id."?method=DELETE&access_token=" . $page_access_token;
$response = file_get_contents($page_settings_url);
$resp_obj = json_decode($response,true);
return $resp_obj;
}
Subscription: to subscribe must be like a "user" and therefore object = user fields = feed but you have to add new fields because otherwise it receives the comments and likes the wall so you must add "status" in order to receive the articles posted (my problem is to get other content such as links I have managed to add "link" as fields but I am not receiving notifications when a link is posted)
$param = array ('access_token' => $ access_token,
'object' => 'user',
'fields' => 'feed, status, link'
'callback_url' => 'http:// ******** fbcallback.php'
'verify_token' =>'***********',
'include_values' => 'true');
POST
https://graph.facebook.com/APP_ID/subscriptions
my English is not very good but I hope it will help you, on my side I'm still looking for really all updates to the wall (links, video ...)
I have been researching on this and i am getting the pushes for pages too.
while subscribing make sure that object = user and fields = feed, status is present.
Make sure that application is added to your page, then only you will receive the update.
Response received from facebook is as below :-
{"entry":[{"id":"*******","uid":"*****","time":1332940650,"changed_fields":["status"]}],"object":"user"}
where **** is my pageId.
The above push is received on adding a new post , as you can see the changed_feild is status , but when we post on wall the changed_fields comes as feed. Below link helped me in receiving pushes for the page.
http://bugs.developers.facebook.net/show_bug.cgi?id=18048
Firstly, subscription to real-time update for page/feed doesn't work.
See: http://bugs.developers.facebook.net/show_bug.cgi?id=18048
Does the page need to install the app whose oauth token I'm using?
Yes
Or do I somehow need to get an oauth token for the page itself by logging in as the page?
If i correctly understand you, you need only app access_token
https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?client_id=your_app_id&client_secret=your_secret&grant_type=client_credentials
I first started reading the docs about real-time updates thinking that it could delivery the actual data. But, as I realized, that's not the purpose.
Real-time updates are just to tell you that something has changed, and once it happens, you can call the api with the conventional method.
Also, seems like there's an error on this part the subscription topic should be 'user' and the subscription field should be 'feed'. The subscription topic, actually, should be 'page'. (Have you thought the same?)
And by subscribe on page feed as the same as user feed, means that you can get update notifications, not the data itself.
Not sure if this is a common mistake, but I'm posting it just in case.
--
Currently I'm working on a data mining tool that will need real-time updates. But first, I'm focused on the data itself, so I can't post any examples yet. (I'll edit this answer when implementing this part)
What I can say about your issue is:
1) Look that your $PAGEID isn't correct. Actually it's your APPID instead.
2) After subscribing, have your subscription appeared on the list when calling https://graph.facebook.com/<app-id>/subscriptions?access_token=... ?
3) With user subscription, does it work? Or is it just with pages?
For this you need to set up an endpoint URL that receives both HTTP GET (for subscription verification) and POST (for actual change data) requests from Facebook.
Then you should make a POST to the graph API url https://graph.facebook.com/<app-id>/subscriptions?access_token=<access_token> to subscribe, and be ready to handle the verification request.
Then to list subscriptions, just perform a GET request on the same url, https://graph.facebook.com/<app-id>/subscriptions?access_token=<access_token>, which returns a JSON-encoded content that lists your subscriptions, up to one per object type.
Before you start waiting for the notifications you should check if the URL is actually being hit or not by FB
Check The Output of Following:
"https://graph.facebook.com/".FACEBOOK_APP_ID."/subscriptions?".$appToken."&client_secret=".FACEBOOK_SECRET;
This shall return the callback_url if set correctly !
In the Facebook UI, you can hit "#" when you update your status and get a list of pages where your status update will be added as a Related Post on the page.
Is there a way to do the same in the Graph API? Assuming all authenticated, calling me/feed with a "message" parameter like this (using .NET Facebook SDK):
var client = new FacebookClient(ACCESS_TOKEN);
var parms = new Dictionary<string, object>();
parms.Add("message", "TEST fb SDK: #whatever");
client.Post("me/feed", parms);
The status update is posted, but the page doesn't doesn't get resolved as a Related Post.
If you GET a feed entry which has a Related Post created from the UI it's shown as a status update with the "to" parameter populated with the page. If you recreate that message as a POST in the API, the Related Post gets created, but:
the Related Post shows on the Info tab of the page, not the Related Posts tab
the status update doesn't have a link to the Related Post
Any thoughts? Thanks!
Someone has posted an undocumented way of tagging users using Facebook Graph API that involves using a #[{user_id}:1:{name}] syntax, eg: #[{4}:1:{Mark Zuckerberg}]. There is an open request with Facebook for full documented support of this method.