Posts made to page wall using graph api displayed in user newsfeed without "via ".
You can see axample here http://www.insidefacebook.com/2012/11/12/new-link-shows-users-more-page-posts-and-friend-activity-in-news-feed/.
Is it possible to see what application shared this post to page?
Actually you can use Graph API to find out what application created the post. Although Michael is correct in pointing that via- tag is removed by Facebook on post's display.
The "via"-attribution for posts done by apps on pages was recently dropped by Facebook.
I'm pretty sure there's no way to tell from the outside, if a post was made through an app, and which app in particular.
Compare this screenshot of what the Graph API exposes about a post (its a post we've published on http://fb.com/diesocialisten via http://www.swat.io)
Post: https://www.facebook.com/129842310398883/posts/350825491682109
There's no hint of the used app here:
Anvesh is right: you actually can get the "application"-field, but you have to query the feed itself (/diesocialisten/feed), not the particular post. Cool, didn't know that!
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I've searched a lot, but I did not get any full information.
I need to get all images which are posted to a specific fb page by users. And do I really ned to get that app reviewed? I only need this application during an exhibition over a weekend.
The fans take a picture at our booth and post it on our timeline. These images are to be displayed automatically on a screen.
How do I get to the pictures via the Facebook API?
update:
My first move was with the following:
graph.facebook.com/v3.1/[pageid]/feed?fields=picture,message,from
Since I need only the posts from others, I'm going to filter the response object.
Is there a better solution?
Okay, so PAGE-ID/visitor_posts?fields=picture,message did the trick!
The problem is to get the link to menu from a Facebook official page of a restaurant.
Here is an example of such page: https://www.facebook.com/freshchoice.bb — there is a link to menu of the restaurant which leads to https://www.facebook.com/download/216155385221332/Facebook%20menu.pdf.
Actually, this link works well even if I remove the name of the file from it, and I understand, that 216155385221332 is an ID of some object. But how can I obtain this ID from the API?
I have already spent two days trying to find a solution for this task and have had no luck.
When I request data from Facebook Graph API, I get tons of information, and I can request any of the fields listed here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/page but there is no 'menu', or 'downloads' field, and I have almost broke my brain trying to find out a way to solve this puzzle.
I don't think there's a way to reach this object if you didn't create it yourself.
There's the restaurant.menu OpenGraph object:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/opengraph/object-type/restaurant.menu/
but I think only the user who created it can access it programatically.
The page you're referring to probably just uploaded the menu via the Facebook website, and didn't create an OpenGraph object.
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https://www.facebook.com/help/533179700126832
We're able to post to user's FB timeline/page as the page, no problem. The issue is the post that our app is posting is way smaller than post that a page/user can post to the feed manually.
We've tried to change status_type to one of mobile_status_update, created_note, added_photos, added_video, shared_story, created_group, created_event, wall_post, app_created_story, published_story, tagged_in_photo, approved_friend according to the API (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/post/) but neither of these change how the post looks in the feed.
Has anyone been able to post content to timeline/page wall through an APP that looks as if it was posted manually - specifically size of the image?
Sample page post that was posted through our app as page owner - image is small:
Sample page post that was posted manually - large image. We'd like the one above to look like this as well when posted through the app:
status_type is set automatically. You can't set it yourself.
In the case of the manual post, you added a photo. To do that in the API, you have to query /PROFILE_ID/photos.
What you did through the API most probably is a post with a link, with the use of /PROFILE_ID/post with the link field filled. Hence, Daniel & Co shared a link.
That's why it doesn't look the same.
Some help for you to succeed at posting a photo:
How-To: Use the Graph API to Upload Photos to a user’s profile
Adding Photos to Stories
Disable grouping of photos on the timeline
Also note that you won't be able to post a photo with the link to image which is hosted on Facebook.
I have an app app1 which defines a custom Facebook action act1.
When a user performs this action to an entity (ntt1) in my app, I post to API /me/app1:act1 with URL to ntt1 as its param, so that a post is generated on user's wall saying User act1'ed ntt1 where ntt1 is a link to ntt1's view page (with open graph meta data on its header).
Users can comment or like on this wall post regularly.
Now I want to show users' comments on ntt1's web page as well to share the comments and likes between the Facebook wall and ntt1's view page.
I tried using the Comments social plug-in, but don't know what to put in the data-href to point to the action_instance_id of the wall post.
I know I can simulate a comments box on my page using the graph API (and I've already done so), but this is not making a good ux, because the users need to authorize to my application to view this page (so that the java script API can fetch the comments from the Facebook).
Have you tried just pointing the data-href attribute to
https://www.facebook.com/{user_name_or_id}/activity/{action-instance-id}
…? The docs for using actions say this is the URL you can use to “preview” the news feed story that this published action will generate (or rather has already generated, because without publishing the action first, you would not have an action-instance-id).
If you click on the “x minutes/hours/… ago” link for the feed story for one of your published actions, it should take you to a link that’s build using the same scheme.
We are trying to publish to the feed resource of an event using the Graph API. What happens is it seems to ignore any link that we post. It also does not seem the Graph API supports any option for posting a photo to the wall of an event.
We make the call to the event feed using the following parameters:
link='http://rfid-social-media.odinrfid.com/photo?photoId=000000000000000000102107'
name='John at Facebook Party'
message='Test Message 2'
caption='What a great time'
And we publish against the url:
https://graph.facebook.com/EVENT_ID/feed
The request response does go through successfully, but the link does not show up in the UI.
We can post a link to a regular page using the Graph API without issue. It does show in the UI with the link, thumbnail, caption, etc, all as it should.
Thanks..
This is a Bug and its reported and marked as confidential
With the below text and its also contain security hole
bug report link
Below is my bug report text.
Other details on this report are shown to Facebook employees only
I recently attempted to post on an event's wall using the Graph API, but only the message is posted; Everything else is not showing. e.g.
Link
Picture
etc
There is one more big thing that the post doesn't show; That this post is post "via a Facebook app"
Note: posting on a page or user wall worked and also normal messages posted on an event 's wall.
The most important thing is when the post is shown on the event's wall "it does not show that its posted by a Facebook Application".
This is very dangerous; For example I can make an application and post nonsense on a user's wall. People will think that this is posted by the user.
Thank you so much for creating this question
For posting a photo to an event it seems to be a FB bug, subscribe and up the repo count so it gets attention
https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/225316074217855?browse=search_4f2f7576c5bc32d87041759