I created simple facebook app which asks user for user_about_me, user_activites and user_status privilages. Now I want to get all my wall posts, so I make a request and receive only some of my profile data, but without wall posts. I noticed that my access_token is different from the one I can get in documentation: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/.
What should I change?
You need read_stream permission.
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/permissions/
read_stream Provides access to all the posts in the user's News Feed and
enables your application to perform searches against the user's
News Feed
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One of our feature is to display the posts of our facebook friend. And that is made possible by Facebook Query Langauge FQL. Unfortunately FQL has been deprecated by FB in favor of Graph API which has stricter permissions. A possible replacement is the Graphs API user_posts permission where we can query user posts via user feed.
However the docs says:
"Your app needs user_posts permission from the person who created the post or the person tagged in the post."
Are there still alternative to get get user posts even without users permissions?
You only should be able to access friend's posts if your friends gave at least user_friends and user_posts permission to the same app.
If so, you'll only have access to those friend's posts, not to all your friends. An no, there's no workyround. Facebook did this on purpose with the introduction of the Graph API v2.0.
I have never used facebook API.As part of my research project, I need to get activity data (the posts made, the links shared etc.) of a user's friends. Is it possible to get this data via facebook API? Do i need permission from user only or i need permission from user's friends too for accessing that data? I am assuming that since a user can see wall posts of his friends when he visits his friend's facebook profile, the same thing is possible using the API too.
I'm trying to figure out how, after a user has opted into my Facebook Application, to retain their credentials so as to post to their wall at a later time. I see apps doing this all the time, but I'm unclear where/how they store the user's login (I'm guessing they're not actually holding on to U/P but rather just have some key to post to the user's wall), and then do the post at some later time.
I'm unable to find the documentation for how to do this at the facebook developer site and am hoping someone can point me in the right direction.
TIA
Ask for publish_stream permissions then post to that user's wall using your "app" access token if the user access token has expired.
Facebook documentation here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/permissions/
publish_stream
Enables your app to post content, comments, and likes to a user's
stream and to the streams of the user's friends. With this permission,
you can publish content to a user's feed at any time. However, please
note that Facebook recommends a user-initiated sharing model.
I can post on my friends wall after authenticating the Facebook Graph Explorer (or any app with publish_stream permission for that matter).
Facebook Graph Explorer
However, how can I validate in my app that the message has actually posted successfully to my friends wall? In some cases, I can go to my friends page and see my message appear, however, in other cases, I notice that there is no message on their wall.
In either case, Facebook returns an object id, like:
100002349949136_184284371659893
Yet, when I view these posts on the graph (link above), they both return false... The rules of my app require that a message is posted on another user's wall.
How can I validate that a message appears on a Facebook wall? Or how can I filter user's who have restricted 3rd party apps from posting on their walls?
The post must be publicly viewable if you're attempting to read the post without an app access token. If it is not publicly viewable, then you must have read_stream permission set in the app you're attempting to read the post with.
Here is the documentation. https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/post/
I have a facebook application that I use to post messages on user's wall. I save the post id. I want to know the number of likes and comments on each of these posts?
Do I need a read_stream permission to access my own posts?
What is the best way to do this?
You will need read_stream permission from the user to be able to read the post since the user owns their own status update (and its likes/comments), not your application. If you have read_stream, you can then just access /postID via the Graph API.