I'm totally stumped here. I'm trying to get access to the data that appears under the reviews tab in the Facebook Page http://facebook.com/freemanfoxx (Page ID=149530265092626).
I've figured out that all data in a Facebook profile can be retrieved as JSON using the Graph API but I'm totally stumped about the data populated on the "Reviews" tab. It appears to be it's own Application separate from the Facebook core and this is probably why I'm lost.
Any leads/tips/experts out there? Here are some of the links I've been searching for Help.
developers.facebook.com/docs/api
developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/
developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/application/
My overall goal is to take this data into Yahoo! Pipes and then combine it with data from a Google Form to create an RSS feed to be output to a webpage I'm building.
Your thoughts and help would be GREATLY appreciated!
Ryan
Let's say your reviews tab on the facebook page is:
http://www.facebook.com/easyinspection?sk=app_6261817190.
6261817190 is the application id (not page id), and that is what you will be using next.
You can get all reviews by a request to:
http://graph.facebook.com/6261817190/reviews. If you do not want to go page by page, retrieving 25 reviews at a time (take a look at next page url), you can get it all in a single request, like this:
http://graph.facebook.com/6261817190/reviews?limit=100000000&offset=0
There is no API for this data. Your only chance will be a web page crawl ov your reviews and grab the content from there.
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I made a website where people can post links for other websites and then the backend generates a preview of the link (by using curl and parsing out the open graph tags available on most websites / by picking the first image, html title etc). Now, fine after some tweaking but sometimes I get some kind of rate limit.
Here is one example of a link I want to parse: https://www.facebook.com/HBR/posts/10157131816732787
I can parse it 4 ou 5 times and get a title, image etc but then if I repeat it I get sent to the login page of facebook. How can I avoid this?
I tried to parse the link at https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/sharing however it says "Facebook URLs cannot be crawled". So my question is: how am I even supposed to parse those links if they don't even allow it on their debugger?
Is there any kind of API that allows me to get this information without user login? I don't want to parse entire facebook pages, profiles etc, just get a preview for a link that my users might post on the website.
You MUST use the Facebook Graph API if you want to get data of Facebook Pages (or anything else on Facebook), scraping is not allowed.
In order to get data of Pages you do not own, you need to apply for Page Public Content Access: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/review/feature/#reference-PAGES_ACCESS
An App Access Token (without Login) is sufficient in that case.
API Reference for Pages: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/page/
I dont think show.You can crawl post on public group using python selenium and beautiful soup
The problem is to get the link to menu from a Facebook official page of a restaurant.
Here is an example of such page: https://www.facebook.com/freshchoice.bb — there is a link to menu of the restaurant which leads to https://www.facebook.com/download/216155385221332/Facebook%20menu.pdf.
Actually, this link works well even if I remove the name of the file from it, and I understand, that 216155385221332 is an ID of some object. But how can I obtain this ID from the API?
I have already spent two days trying to find a solution for this task and have had no luck.
When I request data from Facebook Graph API, I get tons of information, and I can request any of the fields listed here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/page but there is no 'menu', or 'downloads' field, and I have almost broke my brain trying to find out a way to solve this puzzle.
I don't think there's a way to reach this object if you didn't create it yourself.
There's the restaurant.menu OpenGraph object:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/opengraph/object-type/restaurant.menu/
but I think only the user who created it can access it programatically.
The page you're referring to probably just uploaded the menu via the Facebook website, and didn't create an OpenGraph object.
Se
https://www.facebook.com/help/533179700126832
As I am learning and getting familiar with the FB OG API I am finding that I am lacking some of the basics. For example I see here that I use the action type news.publishes to post an article. However the access_token is for the user owning the page and thus it will go to their news feed and not the page (in this case their company page). Correct?
If I understand correctly then how does one get it to post to a specific page. Is there an access_token collection you iterate through till you find the one for the company page?
TIA
JB
You should be able to use /PAGE_ID/feed? Where page id is the numerical assigned by facebook..or the text friendly name you used.
I am building a website for a client. He has a Facebook page for his business. On the homepage of his site, he wants a feed that will pull in all the updates from his business' Facebook page.
Now, I felt this would be very easy to implement (maybe it is) but I have scoured the Facebook API for any simple way to do this. I am having a lot of trouble understanding which way I should do this. I've settled on using JS to access it, but have no idea where to go from there.
Do I need to create an app? If so, which options do I select so I can access the clients facebook page?
How do I get my app that I've created to show up so a user can authorize it? I have so many questions, and Facebook isn't very good at giving me answers.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
I would suggest you just use the facebook page's RSS feed.
Example
Take his page URL e.g.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lazery-Attack/6001014870
Take the number at the end of the url off, and plug it into the facebook feeds URL e.g.
https://www.facebook.com/feeds/page.php?format=rss20&id=6001014870
Voila, you now have an RSS feed you can integrate into the website you are building.
URL Breakdown
The URL is broken down the following way:
https://www.facebook.com/feeds/page.php?format={feedFormat}&id={PageID}
Vaid feed formats are:
RSS - rss20
Atom - atom10
JSON - json
Other Examples
Atom
https://www.facebook.com/feeds/page.php?format=atom10&id=6001014870
JSON
https://www.facebook.com/feeds/page.php?format=json&id=6001014870
Take a look at the facebook API, right here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/page/
You can give it a try here:
http://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/?method=GET&path=19292868552%2Fposts
The like box: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like-box/ also has the latest posts available
The simplest way is to add a Like Button to the page and make sure "show Stream" is checked on as this will show all recent posts. You can customise the appearance also (e.g. width, height etc).
No App or messy API calls needed!
Try it out here and simply paste the resulting code into your webpage:
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like-box/
Not an app, but the Facebook Social Plugins over here at Facebook For Pages
I am trying to achieve similar functionality to the one shown here...http://blackmilkclothing.com/collections/leggings/products/circuit-board-grey-leggings
there fan page https://www.facebook.com/blackmilkclothing allows people to hash tag a photo and then populate it on their website like the link above.
Loading a series of tagged images from my facebook fan page to my website. I am not positive how this is acheived? I am assuming some kind of api process but any help in the right direction would be appreciated.
Thanks! All help is appreciated
See the 'tagged' connection of a Page in the Graph API: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/page/
It returns a list of objects the page is tagged in, including photos
If you need background knowledge I suggest these links in particular:
Graph API overview: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/
Page login: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/pages/
After a good bit of trial and error I've found the most efficient way to query photos tagged to a particular Facebook page is to use Facebook's FQL interface to retrieve a list of stream posts.
With FQL you can limit the queried objects to only those posts containing images (unlike with the higher-level Graph API calls which will return all posts, many of which may not have associated photos), and you'll also have more granular control over composition of the result set.
Keep in mind that Facebook doesn't have true hashtag support (only Facebook pages can be tagged), so to simulate the hashtag support that Black Milk Clothing encourages, you'll need to parse and filter the photo message text yourself.
As an alternative quick and easy solution, I've rolled the results of my efforts into a free online service called TagTray -- with TagTray I've added an interface for building and curating hashtag based galleries from Facebook, Instagram, and TwitPic (including application-level Facebook hashtag filtering) that can be framelessly embedded into a site with a few lines of JavaScript.