I've been writing a small Facebook app which uses the unified_thread table using FQL. According to the documentation at the unified_thread documentation page the new messaging system is coming to all users. Where is it announced when that will happen? Is there some canonical resource by Facebook where they have some form of roadmap?
It looks like your wish will be granted on Nov 30th, 2011: Steps Toward the New Messaging System
Also, here is a direct link to the Facebook Dev Roadmap: Developer Roadmap
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I'm building an app that has the user log in through instagram, it then reads their feed and uses that information for the app. Instagram has a page that says their API's will be deprecated in 2020 but some things will still work. It's not straightforward as to what is being deprecated and what isn't, and I have not found any way to contact them directly. Does anyone know if the following URL will continue working, and if not if this type of app will even be viable in the future? Why is IG and Facebook becoming much more closed platforms to 3rd party integrations?
https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/self/media/recent/
Deprecation notice:
https://www.instagram.com/developer/
The legacy Instagram API - https://www.instagram.com/developer/ will be deprecated in favor of Instagram Graph API provided by Facebook - https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-api
In order to use https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/self/media/recent/ this endpoint you need Basic permission. As documentation says, it will be deprecated in early 2020, which means that the legacy API will be most probably shut down, since there will be no more capabilities to request for.
You should most definitely start building your app with Graph API. Please keep in mind that it takes some time before you can go live with your app. It requires couple of things like Business Verification, review of requested permissions in App review and it can take some time to be able to go live.
Please keep in mind that the Graph API works only for Instagram Business type of accounts. You can't use it for regular accounts at the moment. It is not clear yet if it will be available for all accounts, but most probably it will be in the future. It was the same as with deprecating Public Content permission on Instagram legacy API. They added similar functionality in Graph API.
If you plan to support all users, you will also have to apply for Basic capability in legacy API. In other words, you need to support both Instagram API and Instagram Graph API if you plan to target all Instagram users, both regulars and Business profiles.
Another thing to keep in mind is that you can't really report bugs or get any help from legacy Instagram API. If you will find the bug you can't report it as they do not accept it due to deprecation.
So start building with Instagram Graph API, once you will be good to go, try to add Instagram legacy API support. If everything will be fine and Facebook will add support for legacy accounts, your Graph API should easily take over Instagram legacy API functionality.
Most probably the reason why they are tightening the integrations and makes it harder for the developers is user privacy. They do not want to have yet another incident like Cambridge Analytica for instance.
It does not make sense to build something with the old API, that old API URL will definitely stop working (with all the old api.instagram.com endpoints). There is a new API though: https://developers.facebook.com/products/instagram/
I want to follow users through Facebook Graph API.There is no documentation available.
That is not possible via API – most likely because it would just be abused to much, and have app developers subscribing user to follow people without the user being aware of it.
For the web, there is a social plugin available, so that the user can actively trigger a subscription: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/follow-button/
We have been developing on the a software.
We were using feature Public Post Search API of Facebook.
However Facebook will be deprecated it at April 30, 2015. Do you have the alternative of this property?
Could we use this feature through Facebook Partners ?
If there is no such a partnership, would you recommended us to any company?
Could we use the Facebook API search feature with media solution partner program offered by facebook?
Thanks.
Do you have the alternative of this property?
No
Could we use this feature through Facebook Partners?
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/mediasolutions There should be an email there, the bar is probably quite high for partnership
If there is no such a partnership, would you recommended us to any company?
See previous
Could we use the Facebook API search feature with media solution partner program offered by Facebook?
No.
Facebook recently added a new feature which allows bookmarking interesting links for reading later. Saved links are available in „Save” tab.
Is there any Facebook API (e.g. Graph API) for retrieving these saved items ?
The documentation of the API endpoint to access Facebook "Saved Links" used to be available at the following link:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/opengraph/action-type/save.saves/
However, Facebook removed the support for it around February/March 2016.
Answer edited on Apr, 15 2016. Thanks for the comments.
No such API feature exists.
If this will change it will be announced here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/changelog
I'm trying to find a source for Facebook Application statistics. I'm most interested in getting a comprehensive list of the applications in the system, and how many monthly active users each app has. I know this information is available on each application's page, but aside from crawling Facebook, is this information available somewhere, or via Facebook's API?
Facebook Applications Leaderboard http://statistics.allfacebook.com/applications/leaderboard/
Check facebook insights
https://developers.facebook.com/apps/{urAppIdHere}/insights