Say, I wrote a flash game for the Facebook and I want the user to be able to view his playing history (dates, points, highscores...). Do I necessarily have to build my own database for that? Are there any other options? I mean, ANY?
Facebook will provide some general statistics about your app (like the number of views), but if you want something as specific as points and high-score statistics, you will have to use your own database.
You could have your app publishing scores to Facebook, and also read them back from the API: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/scores/
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I have developed an app that retargets customers when browsing a website and I have some problem with UTM tracking and Google Analytics.
For example if a client gets a customer to click on a FB ad and lands on their website they will have a custom FB utm. After browsing the website my app will display a pop-up and when a client clicks on it he receives my custom UTM.
The problem is that clients loose conversion rate data for the original traffic source and I need to figure out a solution.
Help is very much appreciate
It's not a good practices track with utm inside your site, if the pop-up is on the same domain, dont do it?
In you example, if the user comes from FB, yes, you need to tack with the utm, but the pop up is on your site... lets check the option?
If the asnwer is yes, try to track the user with a Custom Dimention on a Session Level, that will solve almost all your problems.
If the answer is no, you can only store a single UTM per sessions, that means that there is no option to avoid the overwriting the UTM, even consider the referal exclusion.
More about Custom dimentions:
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2709828?hl=en
I want to know if I can access a user's play history (more specifically what songs they listen to the most) for an app. The app I am building can perform the same goal with iTunes using their built-in play counter. I know Spotify uses a similar counter, but I assume for privacy concerns they don't want to deal with privacy concerns from concerned users. However, I saw a few instances where it was suggested that this task could be accomplished using Facebook's API, or Echo Nest's API. Please let me know if anyone has some constructive suggestions toward finding a way to legally obtain a particular users 'most listened to songs', or something to that effect.
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There's some documentation about Open Graph Music on the Facebook Developer homepage:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/music/
Baseline is that you only can request a User's play history if he gave you app the explicit right to read his data.
The relevant permissions would be
user_actions.music https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/permissions/v2.1#reference-user_actions_music
user_actions:{app_namespace} https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/permissions/v2.1#reference-user_actions__app_namespace_
Then, you should be able to request
GET /me/music.listens
according to https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/opengraph/action-type/music.listens/ You'll need to perform the aggregation of the most played songs/artists yourself, because there's no endpoint for that.
I want to ask a question:
When a Facebook user use my apps, can I retrieve their application list?
I have a scenario that will require this:
People play my game.
If they have already play another game of mine, then they will have a bonus gift.
So I need to know if they've already used that another app or not. :)
You can use "me/accounts" for see all app of current user
(example : https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/?method=GET&path=me%2Faccounts )
So I need to know if they've already used that another app or not.
Then you’ll have to save the user ids of people playing your games into your own database.
I am currently starting to research a project that wants to use Facebook instead of a log in system.
the brief needs to be able to allow users to have their own customisation settings in a user panel, and also be able to connect with facebook friends within the context of the site.
Am I barking up the wrong tree?
Also, how much of the elements we pull from facebook can be styles our way. My designers is starting concepts before I get to that point of development and I don't want to waste their time designing layouts that can not be achieved.
Facebook allows you to pull a wealth of information. The user has to OK the permission for you app to access his/her Facebook profile, but you can get friends lists and their thumbnail pictures too!
Take a look here for a start:
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/
Its a bit of work, but worth it. You can pull straight data and store it on your server. According to Facebook, you can only keep the data for 24 hours or so (If I remember correctly) so you will need to "refresh" the data every day or so.
I'm doing a game that will connect to facebook
once conected the game uploads your score and shows you a table with the score of your friends.
I try to create an object to store data, but i couldn't do it.
then I read this on the Data Store API documentation:
Except for the User Preference API methods, all Data Store API methods have been disabled for desktop applications.
Is my game an desktop application?
if not, how can i do for store the points of the players in the facebook application?
I'm so sorry for mi english, I speak spanish.
If you want to store your game data, you have to create your own database and a webservice to connect your clients with that database. There's no way around it. But there're several helpful question on that topic on stackoverflow.
An alternative be would using online services like http://iphonelb.com/
Good Luck!