I just started skimmed over the Facebook API and OpenSocial API. In OpenSocial there is the construct of a gadget that is hosted on the container. You just write the code inside some XML structure and upload somehow to the container. So the code ist hosted by the OpenSocial provider.
I couldn't find a pendent in the Facebook API. It seems that apps on Facebook must always be hosted on a developers system (and not on Facebook). Is that correct? Or did I miss something?
Yes, that's correct. Facebook is busy enough running its own stuff without your stuff keeping their servers busy!
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Hi, I have a question concerning the implementation of Facebook Conversions API via Google Tag Manager Server-Side.
We are using DNN /EVOQ CMS which is a .net application.
Everything else is in place concerning Facebook Pixel and Business manager.
I also tested it on the Graph API and it worked fine.
It’s just the last step that is missing.
I know one way to implement the Facebook Conversions API is with Node.js Business SDK.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/marketing-api/conversions-api/using-the-api
My Question:
If you use Google Tag Manager Server-Side, do you still need to add the Node.js Business SDK ?
Thanks in advance
The Node sdk is to send FB conversions directly to FB.
In your case, you send all the FB conversion info with the hit to your GTM endpoint and then you make a custom http request tag and retranslate all the info you've got from your backend into a proper FB conversion request.
That's pretty much it.
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We have a software developer building a web site with Facebook login for our company. They have told us to register a Facebook application.
For the moment, the beta application is hosted in a development environment. I would like to start testing also the Facebook integration. But when I access to the application page in Facebook, I get an error.
I think it might be related to an attribute I find in the first page of the app configuration. The attribute is called "Hosting URL".
The option seems to be linked to some kind of hosting service provided by Heroku. I don't know exactly what is that, but I would say we do not need it. We will use our own hosting server and, what's more, our application is developed in a language different that the one Heroku supports.
Could somebody confirm us which is the problem and, if it is possible, give us a hint to solve it?
Thank a lot in advance,
-The SportPoket team
The "Hosting URL" is meant to be the public web address of your finished production application. During development however, you only need to provide the URL for the app that is accessible from your web browser. If you are running a local web server on port 5000, http://127.0.0.1:5000/ will work.
Heroku is just one of the suggested hosting services for Facebook and you don't have to use it, but the documentation can be helpful. More about setting up a Facebook app dev env can be found here: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/facebook#1-creating-a-development-facebook-app
I am working on a Soundcloud XBMC add-on. The add-on is open source, and written in Python. I would like to allow users to login to their SoundCloud account via the add-on, however it's possible to have XBMC instances running in an environment without access to a typical web browser (e.g. raspbmc, which provides no window manager or graphical browser by default). Is there a way to still allow users to authenticate with this add-on without requiring use of the 'SoundCloud Connect Screen' and without violating the SoundCloud API TOS?
This is not provided in theirs API, but after some digging into the libraries i figured it out.
Make a POST to: https://api.soundcloud.com/oauth2/token
with these params
grant_type=password&client_id=YOUR_CLIENT_ID&client_secret=YOUR_SECRET_ID&username=USERNAME&password=PASSWORD&scope=non-expiring
this will return non expiring token that you can use for future authenticated requests.
Is there a way to take a existing web application and make it available as a Facebook application or in Google Marketplace without doing recoding. How much effort would that require (10% or 90% of original effort).
What would be the pre-requisites around that within application.
If your application don't use any sort of authentication, you can just link it on Facebook's dev dashboard (as iframe) and it'll work. My guess is that Facebook won't allow any other kind of authentication besides their own, so if your app uses authentication, then you're going to have to implement Facebook's authentication.
With Google Marketplace you'll need a manifest for your app and also a listing manifest. And the authentication thing also applies, but with Google's.
I'm developing a site with something similar to the Digg bar at the top. One of the features requested is a live chat using Facebook. Is it even possible to implement Facebook Chat on my site by using Facebook Connect or other methods? And if so, how?
[update] I've seen that it works with Pidgin and Adium, but what I'm looking for is a site based implementation (think AJAX & HTML living at the top of the page).
It appears that the Facebook team has at least begun, if not finished, implementing an xmpp/jabber interface for Facebook Chat. This would allow you to use any XMPP enabled client to connect to Facebook. That said, there's at least one javascript jabber client library available that I can find. Although, you may have to implement a proxy on your web server to allow the JS client to talk to the Facebook server.
Also, I'm not sure how they're doing it, but Meebo has managed to enable Facebook chat integration on their site with Facebook Connect. I haven't found anything mentioning it, but this functionality may be easily available through the Facebook Connect API (documentation).
To answer your question: Yes, it's possible.