I'm posting on my fanpage but i want to do highlight posts. Any suggestions?
I have to star them one by one on the fanpage. Is there any way to do this? I also read the documentation but there is no examples.
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/page/#posts
Sample of code:
$args = array(
'access_token' => $page_info['access_token'],
'message' => 'MY MESSAGE'
);
$post_id = $facebook->api("/MY PAGE ID/feed","post",$args);
Im using PHP SDK 3.1.x.
Use:
POST /<post_id>/ with param timeline_visibility = starred
timeline_visibility must be one of the following values: hidden, normal, starred.
Also see https://stackoverflow.com/a/19861323/1784062.
Related
I've been crawling through the documentation and found out that it IS possible to achieve a "Boost Post" functionality through the Facebook Ad APIs. However, I have had some trouble finding what exactly the Boost Post does? i.e. Which part of the API corresponds the "Boost Post" functionality of the Facebook UI?
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/marketing-api/adcreative/v2.4
This page outlines several types of ads. What are the types Facebook "Boost Post" button makes? Or is this wrong part of the API?
See the example for creating an ad_campaign here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/marketing-api/reference/ad-campaign#Creating
The object (page post in this case) you're trying to promote is set as the promoted object.
You can also set the lifetime or daily budget of the ad at the campaign level.
From the Facebook docs,
For creating an ad from Page post ( boosting a post ), you will first need to create the creative for that ad from the post.
See the doc page on how to create ad adcreatives. Search for Create an ad from an existing page post
use FacebookAds\Object\AdCreative;
use FacebookAds\Object\Fields\AdCreativeFields;
$creative = new AdCreative(null, 'act_<AD_ACCOUNT_ID>');
$creative->setData(array(
AdCreativeFields::NAME => 'Sample Promoted Post',
AdCreativeFields::OBJECT_STORY_ID => <POST_ID>,
));
$creative->create();
After that you will need to create an ad using that creative ad.
Creating ads from API with creative id
require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';
use FacebookAds\Object\AdAccount;
use FacebookAds\Object\Ad;
use FacebookAds\Api;
use FacebookAds\Logger\CurlLogger;
$access_token = '<ACCESS_TOKEN>';
$app_secret = '<APP_SECRET>';
$app_id = '<APP_ID>';
$id = '<AD_ACCOUNT_ID>';
$api = Api::init($app_id, $app_secret, $access_token);
$api->setLogger(new CurlLogger());
$fields = array(
);
$params = array(
'name' => 'My Ad',
'adset_id' => '<adSetID>',
'creative' => array('creative_id' => '<adCreativeID>'),
'status' => 'PAUSED',
);
echo json_encode((new AdAccount($id))->createAd(
$fields,
$params
)->exportAllData(), JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);
The examples on the above are using Facebook PHP Business SDK, but you can make the calls using the Facebook PHP Graph SDK with the same parameters.
See the respective SDK files for finding the exact API parameters name.
For example : the Business SDK parameter
AdCreativeFields::OBJECT_STORY_ID is object_story_id as the API parameter.
Hope that helps
I think what you want is a "Page Post Ad". My understanding is that this is really what "Boosting a Post" creates, but in a streamlined way. Coming in through the API, there is no such streamline, so the term "Boost" doesn't get used, but there is still some pretty good documentation.
I'd start with the second paragraph of this section:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/marketing-api/buying-api/ad-units#creative
I am building a facebook app, in which I am writing user wall using face book graph api.
Now I would like to include more than 1 links in the message . Is it possible,how can I do it.
This is my code
$facebook->api('/'.$uid.'/feed', 'post', array(
'message' => 'Dear friend, I have given '.$input['rate']." to the movie". $moviedetails['ftitle']. "from ReelReview",
'name' => $moviedetails['ftitle'],
'description' => $moviedetails['description'],
'caption' => 'ReelReview - the best movie review app',
'picture' => 'http://site.com/Movie.jpg',
'link' => 'http://mysite.com'
));
Now I am trying to include some links in the message and description,
Thanks in advance
You can only have one 'link' per wall post , however you could include several links in your description.
The difference is that the 'link' property will be the link that facebook scans for information, and displays images and so forth.
The links in the description will look like in a normal message.
Im using the Facebook SDK Api [PHP] to post automaticly on a timeline wall.
I created a App and requested the access_token with the following permissions: manage_pages,publish_stream,offline_access.
Im using now the access_token to post the message on a page (/PAGEID/feed) where im moderator.
The following is going OKAY and get the post working under the name of the Facebook page:
$attachment = array(
'access_token' => $accessToken,
'message' => $description,
);
$res = $facebook->api('/PAGEID/feed', 'POST', $attachment);
When Im adding some link + name AND/OR picture it will post not as wall post but as "recent message of others" with as name my own user:
$attachment = array(
'access_token' => $accessToken,
'message' => $description,
'link' => 'http://www.google.nl',
'name' => $description,
'picture' => $image,
);
How can I post full messages with link and picture on the wall self?
If I understand you correctly, you are trying to post as the Page but it's showing up as a post by you. Is that correct?
If so, I think you need to post using the Page's access token, rather than your own access token. Look at the section called "Page Access Tokens" on https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/page/. Once you get the page's access token using the technique described there, you can set it to be the token that PHP SDK uses by doing $facebook->setAccessToken(.... access token value ...). Then you can do the post and it should show up as having been created by the page.
This problem troubled me for so long. Everything seemed setup correctly but as soon as I added a link, it would post as Admin instead of Page. The answer above by triangle_man solved my problem. When using the PHP sdk, the specific line of code I needed was:
$page_token = $facebook->api("/$page_id?fields=access_token");
Our company deals with various online contests. As a part of functionality we need to post questions with fixed options to our facebook page periodically. Any idea about how to implement this using facebook api?
You can do it using graph api. The url will be {page_id}/questions. You need to pass the question as a string and options as an array.
Below code helps you to do that using facebook PHP SDK:
$question = $_POST['question'];
$options = array($_POST['option1'], $_POST['option2'], $_POST['option3']);
$api_params = array(
'question' => $question,
'options' => $options,
'allow_new_options' => false
);
$url=$facebook->api($_POST['select-page'] . '/questions', 'POST', $api_params);
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I have a question, It might be found somewhere but I couldnt find a thread for it so if there is one, please post the link.
I admin a page that is a group of several other business areas. I want to post on one page with different icons and names, can that be done? Like different admins but administered by one person/account?
Possible?
What you are going to want to do is use a "Page access_token". To get this you will have to create an application and grant it the manage_pages permission.
You should see in the Authentication Documentation a section called "Page Login".
You can grant your application the manage_pages permission by going to this URL:
https://www.facebook.com/dialog/oauth?client_id=YOUR_APP_ID&redirect_uri=YOUR_URL&scope=manage_pages&response_type=token
Don't forget to substitute YOUR_APP_ID and YOUR_URL with the correct values for you application and URL. (the URL can be any URL - it is where Facebook will send you after you close the Dialog). You will see a dialog that looks something like this :
Once you have the correct permission, you'll want to make a call to this URL :
https://graph.facebook.com/me/accounts?access_token=TOKEN_FROM_ABOVE
You will get a response similar to :
As you can see from the image, you will receive a list of all the pages that the user administers along with an access_token for each page.
You use this access_token to make posts on behalf of the page. Since you have not stated what programming language you are using I will give an example in php.
In php, posting to the page would look something like this :
$facebook->setAccessToken(ACCESS_TOKEN_YOU_RETRIEVED_EARLIER);
$attachment = array('message' => 'this is my message',
'name' => 'This is my demo Facebook application!',
'caption' => "Caption of the Post",
'link' => 'http://mylink.com',
'description' => 'this is a description',
'picture' => 'http://mysite.com/pic.gif',
'actions' => array(array('name' => 'Get Search',
'link' => 'http://www.google.com'))
);
$result = $facebook->api('/PAGE_ID/','post',$attachment);
Hope this helps!
Happy coding!