I am bit confused in using checkin api. Every time when I call "me/checkins" the response i get is empty. I have no idea how actually checkin works.
Thanks.
I believe to view checkin's of a user, your application will have to request for "user_checkins" access from the user. This is probably why it is coming back empty.
Just add "user_checkins" as another permission you will need granted.
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/checkin/
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How do I get all events that a user has been invited to or rsvp'd to?
I've tried doing a request to /me/events and /me/events/not_replied but I just get empty responses back.
Does anyone have any idea?
Thanks
It was "noreply", not "not_replied", and it is not available anymore: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/changelog/breaking-changes#events-4-4
In order not to break any existing Apps (not dealing with errors), you don´t get an error, but just an empty response.
I'm trying to use my generated App Access Token with requests to the Graph API, but for some unknown reason it simply will not work. I always get the dreaded Invalid OAuth access token signature error.
Now, let me clarify: I'm pretty sure I know what I'm doing. I did get it to work with a different FB app. I used the /oauth/access_token call to generate the App Access Token, and I can use that Token successfully in further graph calls for that FB app.
But when I try it for my new FB application, it fails. This is the Rails snippet:
app_access_token = URI.escape(ENV["FACEBOOK_APP_ACCESS_TOKEN"])
url = "https://graph.facebook.com/debug_token?input_token=#{user_access_token}&access_token=#{app_access_token}"
response = HTTParty.get(url)
I've also tried not-encoding the token; as expected, it doesn't work (and shouldn't).
I've double- and triple-checked my App ID and App Secret, and re-ran the generation (via curl), and I think it's all correct and copy/pasted without error. The only possibly-notable difference between the generated token of my old app and that of my new one is that the latter has a hyphen in it. Is that relevant?
I am currently working around this by using <App ID>|<App Secret> in place of the generated token, but I'd really like to get back to doing it the right way.
Argh! It turns out that I had a few extra characters that somehow got attached to the end of my generated token!
I don't know how those got there, but that was the problem. Just dumb old human error.
EDIT: Oh my god, every Facebook developer should know this page:
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/accesstoken/
Why isn't that linked from the docs about the access token? It would have saved me so much time and probably prevented my mistake!
I have been hammering away at this problem for the last day. I really hope someone can help me out. I would be very grateful.
What I am trying to do is fetch event data from a Facebook Page. I looked over the documentation, which says this about reading Pages data:
Reading
A Facebook page
Permissions
For pages that are published, you need:
An app or user access token to view fields from fully public pages.
So what I did was I obtained an app access token via:
GET https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?
client_id=YOUR_APP_ID
&client_secret=YOUR_APP_SECRET
&grant_type=client_credentials
which then returned
access_token=MY_APP_ID|MY_APP_ACCESS_TOKEN
After this I followed the documentation and made the following call
https://graph.facebook.com/v2.4/129511477069092/events?fields=id,cover,name,venue,description&access_token=MY_APP_ID|MY_APP_ACCESS_TOKEN
This returned:
{
"data": [
]
}
So after some fiddling around I was able to make the call by switching to version V2.2 and by creating an access key with Facebook API Graph explorer tool(no permissions granted).
GET https://graph.facebook.com/v2.2/129511477069092/events?
fields=id,cover,name,venue,description&
access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN_FROM_FACEBOOK_API_EXPLORER_TOOL
The page I am trying to retrieve data from is public and so are the events, so I can't figure out what is going on. I know I am super close since I am able to retrieve the data with the token provided by the Facebook API Graph Explorer Tool. The thing with using this token is that it only last a few hours and I need something that is going to last longer such as an app access token. I have done some research on Stackoverflow and found similar questions, but none of them solve my problem. Any help will be appreciated to the max! Thanks.
Looks like a bug of v2.4 to me. It works with v2.3 if you remove the deprecated venue field:
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/145634995501895/?method=GET&path=129511477069092%2Fevents%3Ffields%3Did%2Ccover%2Cname%2Cdescription&version=v2.3
If the version is changed to v2.4, it returns an empty result.
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/145634995501895/?method=GET&path=129511477069092%2Fevents%3Ffields%3Did%2Ccover%2Cname%2Cdescription&version=v2.4
There's no documentation about this in the changelog at
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/changelog#v2_4
so I guess it's a bug. There's already a bug report at
https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/443054055873667/
with status assigned. If you have an app that supports v2.3, I'd suggest you prefix your request like this:
GET /v2.3/129511477069092/events?fields=id,cover,name,description
I'm creating a custom module in Drupal, that for part of its functionality must fetch posts from a business page. So for simplicity, I'm using fbapp module as a dependency (drupal.org/project/fbapp), so that I can use it's authentication and request functions (fbapp_app_authenticate() and fbapp_graph_request()) without having to worry about the constant facebook graph updates making my own code obsolete.
I've created a facebook app, so authentication should be app token, using appid and app secret. This seems fine and I'm getting back access_token. However, when I try to read posts from a publicly available page (the clients), I get the response:
"Unsupported get request. Please read the Graph API documentation at https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/docs\/graph-api"
Here's the queries and responses my code produces:
graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?client_id=<redacted>&client_secret=<redacted>&grant_type=client_credentials
array(1) {
["access_token"]=>
string(43) "<redacted>|<redacted>"
}
graph.facebook.com/<page_id>/posts?access_token=<redacted>|<redacted>"
string(183) "{"error":{"message":"Unsupported get request. Please read the Graph API documentation at https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/docs\/graph-api","type":"GraphMethodException","code":100}}"
Can anyone verify a correct way to query a Facebook page programmatically, perhaps there's a setting in the page I'm querying that I need to set (although I can't find anything)?
If page restrictions apply, the page's feed can only be retrieved with an user access token as far as I know (because FB needs to evaluate the visibility criteria, and setting your app to the same restrictions doesn't help here):
See
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.4/page/feed#readperms
It looks like everything you have done is correct. The response you got can be (i am not sure) because you got your clients pageid wrong.
as the title says, I can no longer use friends locations with the graph api explorer any more(in https://developers.facebook.com). Even if I click all access token checkboxes,(trying to get me/friends?fields=locations.fields(place)) I still get error(
{
"error": "Request failed"
}). But me/locations?fields=place works, so it must be someting with "friends" that makes it to crash.
I was able use it 2 weeks ago, and I have not done any changes, it just suddenly stoped working. if I login with my test Account I can get all the parameters I request, but not on my primary account. Is there any one that has any idea what the problem can be? or why it occurred? I have done everything that I can think of, from using diffrent web browers, deleting all history, use diffrent computer. I have compared the settings for both my test account and my main account, both have the same settings.
I am sincerely sorry if i have misspelled anything.
It happens for me as well for any of the locations methods, but the location method with out the s works. I don't know if that data is usable for you.
me/friends?fields=location,hometown
I have figured out the reason to this problem. I has to do with requests from facebook's api, if i lower the Limit per request it works. Then to save the information I use offset.