So in order to get the insight data for my application I need the access_token with read_insight_data permission. However I don't want a user interaction during the process. Can I get my application's insight data with just application ID and secret?
thanks,
Green
Okay I got it.
First, get client(AKA application) access token:
https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?client_id=${client_id}&client_secret=${client_secret}&grant_type=client_credentials
facebook will return something looks like:
access_token=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Second Use that returned token you can get the application insight data:
https://graph.facebook.com/${client_id}/insights/?access_token=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
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I have the following rest url:
facebook.com/4?fields=about,birthday,education,bio,age_range,email,first_name,gender
I don't understand why it shows only the name and id? I thought that those fields are public, or am I wrong ?
Thanks
No, of course you have to get permission from the user before getting any data: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/permissions
"Public" does not mean you can grab everything with an App. And you should always use /me instead of /user-id. /me points to the authorized user, there is no need to use the id.
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>';
}
Ok, so what I am trying to do is a bit odd, so I can't find anything that gives me even a remote idea about how to do this.
I need to access my personal profile posts:
FB.api("/" + myPersonalUserId + "/feed", {limit: 5}, function(data){
console.log(data);
// do stuff with my user info
});
in order to display them on my personal webite, similar to a dynamic blog. But I want it to automatically retrieve these posts without my having to be signed in on each computer that wants to view my site.
Before you get sidetracked on the init, I am using an app and app id that my personal user account has verified access to all permissions.
I know it will require the use of an access token, but how do I get a valid access token without being logged into that computer?
Honestly, I'm starting to question if it is even possible, but if anyone knows how I could accomplish this, that would be awesome!
The best way to achieve this is to just cache the data in your own database and refresh it whenver the user uses your App again.
If that´s not good enough, you have to generate and store an Extended User Token. How to create one is explained in the docs:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/access-tokens
http://www.devils-heaven.com/facebook-access-tokens/
Extended User Tokens are valid for 60 days, there is no User Token that is valid forever. And you should never use Tokens directly on the client, because some user could just copy it from the source. Tokens are meant to be secret, so use it on the server only. You don´t need to use the PHP SDK, a simple CURL call to the Graph API will do it:
https://graph.facebook.com/[your-app-scoped-id]/feed?access_token=[extended-user-token]
Ok, so I found a solution similar to the one above, but offers a permanent access token.
first, build a url:
url = 'https://graph.facebook.com/v2.5/' + {app user Id, not public Id} + '/feed';
url += '?access_token=' + {app Id} + '|' + {app secret};
url += '&fields=id,name,message,full_picture,created_time'; // these scopes should be approved by corresponding user
url += '&limit=5';
then run it by calling a simple ajax request. These variables should be served from the server through ajax, not hardcoded on the client
I have a Facebook app that works fine when I call $facebook->api('/me'), it returns all the user information, but it fails when I call $facebook->api('/100006737731259'). The error I get is:
array("error" => array("message" => "Unsupported get request.", "type" => "GraphMethodException", "code" => 100))
And the strange thing is that if I open my browser and go to http://graph.facebook.com/100006737731259 it returns all the information with no problem (it is one test user for my app).
Have you ever had a problem like it? I do not know what can I be doing wrong.
Thank you very much
When call this API for test user, you can put empty access token OR just don't put access_token parameter at all, then you can solve it.
If you really want to put the access_token, there's the rule you have to follow:
Prohibited access_token:
Normal user's access token
Other app's test user access token
Other app access token
Allowed access_token:
Test user's access token(Either the test user is current app's other test user or this test user 100006737731259, both is allowed!) retrieved from https://graph.facebook.com/APP_ID/accounts/test-users?installed=true&name=TEST_USER_NAME&locale=en_US&permissions=read_stream&method=post&access_token=APP_ACCESS_TOKEN (Replace the relevant APP_ID, TEST_USER_NAME, and APP_ACCESS_TOKEN)
Current App Access token
*APP_ACCESS_TOKEN can be retrieved from https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?client_id=APP_ID&client_secret=APP_SECRET&grant_type=client_credentials (Replace the relevant APP_SECRET)
**App Secret can be get from https://developers.facebook.com/x/apps/APP_ID/settings/ (Replace relevant APP_ID)
The proof is, if you request with other user access token, https://graph.facebook.com/100006737731259?access_token=PROHIBITED_ACCESS_TOKEN at web browser, you would get error eventually.
But if you do https://graph.facebook.com/100006737731259?access_token=Allowed_ACCESS_TOKEN OR https://graph.facebook.com/100006737731259?access_token= (left the access_token value empty) with your web browser, then you can get the data.
This is a problem that only occurs with test users. I don't know why, but it is. If you use a real user, this will not happen.
Is there a way to get the location/hometown (whichever available) using the facebook graph API?
The catch here is I do not want the user to go through an authentication process, meaning I want to get the location/hometown without having the access_token
Therefore, the following case would be void
https://graph.facebook.com/USERID?fields=location,hometown&access_token=USER_ACCESS_TOKEN
Please help
Regards
access token is required with the following permissions
user_hometown
user_location
use hometown_location field of a user table to get location details. We get this info. only if a user shares it's location detail public.
If you have the permissions to access this user data, you just have to parse the key-value dict to your model, eg:
self.user.location = [user objectForKey:#"location"][#"name"];
same for hometown:
self.user.hometown = [user objectForKey:#"hometown"][#"name"];
Regards.