Its quite possible I'm missing something obvious here; I hope so.
I have been trying to get a Facebook game that posts to the user's wall after the game has finished working. As I understand it, this should be a pretty simple process (and there appears to be several different approaches).
I have tried most of these, and they all seem to fail for the same reason; I do not have a 'connect' URL (which, as I understand it, is also called a canvas callback URL?) set correctly.
This sounds easy to fix, but it seems like the application settings page has recently changed. Often a 'connect' tab is referred to, but this no longer exists. All I have is a 'Facebook integration' tab and this has only the canvas URL, there doesn't appear to be a connect URL.
You need to set the URL in the Website Section. You'd be best settings the domain as well just to make sure. I find it best practise to set the URL in the Facebook Integration tab as well as then Website tab regardless of the type of Facebook integration I am creating
You are correct that the error message is out of date, the connect URL is the Website URL now (just wanted to clarify)
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I have a phonegap app in iOS and I'm trying to do a login with facebook. I'm using the javascript sdk. When I try to use fb.getlogin status or fb.login, not sure which, it gives me this error:
"Given URL is not allowed by the Application configuration.: One or more of the given URLs is not allowed by the App's settings. It must match the Website URL or Canvas URL, or the domain must be a subdomain of one of the App's domains."
I have searched for this error, obviously, but nothing seems to solve my issue.
I looked in the facebook app settings, and everything seems to be in order.
I'm probably crazy for asking this with so little detail, but, any suggestions, ideas?
I have never used their SDK but I would have to guess that you are making the javascript calls from within your app and the SDK is saying that it doesnt recognize the URL that the call is coming from. Even though your phone doesn't have a URL (though you could give it one but that is a whole different story) it does still have an IP and that IP isnt matching what FB is expecting. I am sure you registered for a FB developer account or something like that and it asked for a URL of where the calls would be coming from. That needs to match. I dont know how you would get around this. I think you need to use the plugin.
I'm having issues configuring my Facebook app to behave as I want when posting information via the Feed Dialog. I've set up an app and created a link that correctly posts my content when clicked, but I can't figure out how to make the link to the app in the resulting post redirect where I want it to.
As an example, here's a post made via Instagram.
If I click on the 'via Instagram' link, I get either prompted or automatically redirected from the destination URL http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=124024574287414 to www.instagram.com.
I've seen other posts suggest you can do something similar using a JavaScript redirect from the App Canvas page, and I've got a proof of concept doing this, but since I've seen Instagram and other apps do this seemingly internally to Facebook I'm convinced it's possible to do more cleanly.
That link goes to your app's canvas URL (apps.facebook.com/something) or website URL as defined in the app settings, it can't be configured with any more granularity.
This seems that it will probably do the trick most easily: http://woobox.com/statichtml
See the redirect radio button in the image they have.
I have installed the vBulletin Facebook app for a client, and am trying to link the app page from within the sidebar on the Fan Page for the site. However, the page returned upon clicking the link is blank. I think this may be a fault on vBulletin's side (which sadly has little to no debugging facilities that I can see), possibly the referrer does not match the App URL. Has anybody come across this problem before?
Any possible workarounds via Facebook? I have tried setting the Page URL to the apps.facebook.com URL but it didn't work and through a search I've found that it's not the right approach anyway.
Edit: I have also tried iframe within an iframe, like setting the page url to a page and having an iframe in that one. It didn't work, but then again it's fairly obvious why it didn't. The last resort I think would be to see if I could reverse engineer the vBulletin code to ignore referrers or allow a different one (if it's even the problem).
Double edit: Perhaps just a way to send a link off to a new window via the app tab??
Thanks
Is it coming from an SSL site? I think now all fan pages have to come from an SSL site or they will error out. -Buddy
I've been trying to get this to work for a while, but I've apparently missed something.
All I want is to have the latest 3 or so posts from my clients Facebook page to populate and animate in a screensaver that I am building using Flash (AS3).
So far, every time I try to bring anything in, it requires a complete oAuth login and account link, but it's only a one way exchange (read-only, absolutely no writing, posting or even linking, since it's a screensaver) I'm not even sure the client wants pictures or anything.
I am currently trying to use the facebook-actionscript-api, but there isn't an option for the "App Login" type of Authentication that would solve most of my problems.
I'm at wits end and about to have to tell my client it can't be done. At least they'll always have twitter...
I don't think it is possible to get facebook feeds without an accesstoken (even if they are public). So I guess you need to define an app within Facebook and add login stuff to your app so users can give permission to your app for basic access.
Maybe this article offers some help: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/facebook/articles/flex_fbgraph_pt1.html
We're trying to develop a widget that uses Facebook APIs and other websites (e.g different domains) could embed. We do not want every website to create it's on Facebook app but we'd like everyone using this widget to be connected to our Facebook app.
The problem is that Facebook seems to authenticate only a specific domain for an app (Canvas URL).
Ideas?
Guy
Update: I just realized that for Facebook server API as long as I set the redirect_uri to a valid URL (as defined by the site url) then everything is OK. So I can let my widget call the login and set the redirect_uri to some page we hold on our server that will communicate with the origin. So far so good. Now the problem that remains is whether there's a way to do it using the Facebook JS sdk rather then having to invent the wheel. From what I see there I could find a way to make the JS SDK not use the window.location.href. Ideas?
you just need to create the app, then from the profile site of your app there is an link to let users add the app to their page. (this is also possible via a special link (see the docs))
but be aware, one page can only include your app once. so if you like your "customers" to have your app multiple times on the same page you have to create multiple apps but point the canvas and tab url to the same script.
The other way would be to add child applications directly for the user, so you can let your customers even set a customized icon. This is hard to code couse you have to use old apis (newer one doesnt support the functions anymore) and there is none to null documentation for it. (I have such an app running, if you want to see some examples drop me a note)