I'm developing a website using Facebook Connect as the only membership/authentication mechanism.
So far authentication and inviting friends work.
Now I'd like to display a list of users registered with my Facebook application. Something like : "There are 1234 members in the AppName community" + a list of profile pictures.
How would I do that ?
Thanks !
This is actually pretty easy to do. After each user connects with your site through Facebook Connect, create an entry for them in some user table (which you're probably already doing). Then when a user logs in simply display the total number from your users table and randomly select 10 user IDs (or whatever number of pictures you want to display) and show them using the FBML <fb:profile_pic> tag http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Fb:profile-pic.
There is some metric information available about your application via the Admin.getMetrics API call. I believe it only provides the number of active users within a certain time period however.
The actual total number of users is difficult to track due to people who remove the application, or might have it installed but blocked. I don't think it's available as a specific property anywhere. The information pages about Facebook apps never show the total number of users, only the monthly active users, which is what Admin.getMetrics() can tell you.
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My company launched several Facebook ads campaign to drive page likes. Once the campaigns have run for several days, Facebook was able to generate a report of the result of the campaign, showing the number of users that are reached by the campaign aggregated by various dimensions (gender, age, etc).
Given that FB is able to show such aggregate value, I imagine internally FB ads attribution already associated the FB accounts that were reached by said campaign. But no matter what kind of report I try to create, there seems to be no way to download this list of individual accounts that were reached by a campaign, either via API nor GUI.
Is there a way to get this list? Or is it deliberately made not possible due to some regulations or privacy policy?
Facebook deliberately made it this way. You can access the performance data as granular as the ad level, but no further than that. I think attribution solution companies that collaborate with FB have access to the user level information, so the data are definitely collected and stored.
I would like to run a contest among the users of my Facebook app and provide a prize to the users who share it the most time.
How do I get the number of shares performed PER user to my FB app? I will probably do it via PHP, but I'm pretty flexible with other platforms.
I know that I can use something like: http://graph.facebook.com/?id=YOUR_URL, but I want the number of shares per user and not the total shares of my app.
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I have a page that links to my app. and this page has an increasing number of "likes".
We want to know how many of the FB users who have "liked" our page have authorized our app.
Per Querying Users who 'like' my Facebook Page, it doesn't appear that I can get the list of "likers" of my page in order to correlate the FB ids against my user base for the app.
Two questions:
1) Is there an existing Insights metric that I should be using to get this information? This does seem like a special kind of "conversion" (from page - liker to app - user).
2) The only other option I see is scraping the output of
https://www.facebook.com/browse?type=page_fans&page_id=PAGE_ID
which some have suggested violates the FB TOS (why is that, btw?). Does anyone have any other suggestions?
3) Upon further reflection, it occurs to me that I can come at this problem from the app instead. I should be able to get likes for my app users and see if my page is among them. Can anyone verify if this will work?
Many thanks,
Wes
No, you'd need to manually calculate this by using the user's access token when they're using your app to see if they like the page - Facebook's API will not give you a list of users of your app or a list of likers of a page
For my iPhone app, an user can logged in using Facebook, then the app can get list of friends that already on the app. Now I am wondering - when should the user's Facebook friends be pulled down. Should it be the time when the user start using the app and login with Facebook? Or should it be done periodically in the background thread? Or should it actually be done on my apps' web service side (with the access token received and sent over from the iPhone app) What's the best practice to go with?
The main concerns are
total # of friends could be a large number, which would require a lot of network traffic
time processing
A couple of options:
From your comments below your question, cache friends lists for a minimum of 24 hours. Friend listings rarely change often (unless the user is under 25 years of age, then it might change more frequently...statistically speaking).
Another option you can also subscribe to a user using the Real Time API. Store their friend information on your server and when Facebook tells you they've added a new friend you add it to your data store. Then you can query your own server rather that hitting the Graph API.
I have a website that uses facebook connect to allow users to login to the site's login system. If I want to verify that the facebook user id's captured by our database match those who are authorized by facebook to our application by facebook and vice-versa, how would I do that?
For example, if I log in the facebook developer application and it tells me that we have 7 users (I assume this means 7 people who have "connected" to our application), where would I find a list of those 7 users.
I assume their facebook user id's are public information, yet I would like a way to obtain them in a list pertaining to our application.
I assume that this is common for the purposes of database maintenance (and in my case just to verify that everything is working properly).
Looks to me based on the dev console that you can't get a list like this. The best you can do is get friend.getAppUsers() which gives you a list of your friends that have the app installed. Bummer; I actually really need this too for an application I'm working on. I guess just use the post-authorize, deauthorize callback urls to manage the list of users on your end.
I missed first lot of application users too.
Then I start to add username and ID to database as soon as they visit the first page of application after authorizing the application.
Now anybody new comes to my application they are added to 'appusers' table