As an Admin of a closed Facebook group, I'm trying to fetch the reactions on the posts contained within. I've tried using the Graph API explorer but I simply cannot get it to return any results using a user token. I'm using these endpoints:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/photo/reactions/
I've tried using the above photo reactions endpoint, and also the insights endpoint with post_reactions_like_total:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v3.2/insights#availmetrics
I've used in the address bar:
20728370730XXXXX_22114053XXXXXX/reactions
But nothing seems to work. Does anyone know the best way to go about this or what I'm doing wrong? Thanks for your help!
You cannot use those APIs on Groups. Groups access via Apps (including APIs) were severely limited after all of the Facebook privacy issues.
The only things you can do via groups are using the Groups API which is a collection of Graph API endpoints for groups.
You can get post information and posts with personal information removed. I’m unsure if you can get reactions on the posts, but you can get the text and ID.
Only the total reactions count seems to be available:
{group-id}/feed?fields=message,reactions.summary(1)
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v3.2/object/reactions says,
for [post] nodes, /reactions doesn't return a profile except for the current user, if read with a user access token
So if you reacted to any post yourself, you should be able to get that reaction, with your own user token - but everything else does not seem to be exposed to you via API any more.
(Other services might have special access, or they are probably just scraping the data.)
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I am using django-allauth in my Django application, and my registration process is handled by Twitch, using allauth's Twitch provider. As of now, users can register on the website using Twitch, log out, and later log back in using Twitch with no problem. However, for making requests to some of Twitch API endpoints, I need the user's Twitch access token to be able to make requests on their behalf (such as following a channel, etc.).
On a very old github issues page I came upon a question regarding how to access the user's access token and the answer was to query the SocialToken model and find the logged-in user and the desired provider. But in my case my SocialToken model is empty and there are no tokens to be seen there, and I have no clue how to proceed to populate the model and add every new user's access token there, so that I can make requests on their behalf, given I have the correct scope.
Is there a way to add every new user's access token in SocialToken model? And is there a way to update the access token using the refresh token?
P.S. I'm thinking about having a celery task that makes a request to Twitch API every time a new user registers, and later refreshes the access token when it expires. But that seems like a hack, and not really a viable solution, plus, I need a user to be redirected to a certain callback URI as per Twitch API docs Maybe I'm just missing something.
I am using the Python Gdata API to manage Google Groups for my organization and am interested in using the "Disable Group" feature that is now available in the "New" Google Groups. Is this feature supported in the API?
I am using the methods listed on this page:
http://gdata-python-client.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/pydocs/gdata.apps.groups.service.html
I appreciate any help given.
Edited:
I don't think it is possible via Group Setting API.
The description for disabling a group is below:
"Once disabled all new posts to the group will be rejected. Old messages will be browseable and searchable online by anyone that has permission to view the group's content. If this setting is reverted, 'Who can post messages' will automatically be set to 'Managers only' in the 'Basic permissions' section."
I try to use the group setting API and change the setting from all in domain can post to just all manager can post to limit the posting of the group.
"whoCanPostMessage": "ALL_IN_DOMAIN_CAN_POST" -> ALL_MANAGERS_CAN_POST
Note if you take a look at the basic permission for a disabled group, it unchecked all the users who are allowed to post. However, the group setting APi only limit to you change to ALL manager can post.
So it didn't really disable a group...
Currently, there are absolutely no code snippets of the Notification API in Python. I am currently at a loss as the documentation, as thorough as it is, seems to be missing important information necessary to actually code a solution for myself.
Currently, I have a single product that I wish to submit to Google Checkout along with a hidden item, which would be the userid of the user currently logged into my site. Upon payment completion, the callback URL will receive the information, and process the user's payment information (serial key, order number, userid) and update the database.
I am using Django.
Gchecky is there, but it doesn't seem to work - and I've attempted multiple times to get a hold of the developer.
Have a look at Chippy's Shop:
http://code.google.com/p/chippysshop/
http://code.google.com/p/chippysshop/source/browse/googlecheckout.py
I am building a website for a comedy group which uses Facebook as one of their marketing platforms; one of the requirements for the new site is to display all of their Facebook events on a calendar.
Currently, I am just trying to put together a Python script which can pull some data from my own Facebook account, like a list of all my friends. I presume once I can accomplish this I can move to pulling more complicated data out of my clients account (since they have given me access to their account).
I have looked at many of the posts here, and also went through the Facebook API documentation, including Facebook Connect, but am really beating my head against the wall. Everything I have read seems like overkill, as it involves setting up a good deal of infrastructure to allow my app to set up connections to any arbitrary user's account (who authorizes me). Shouldn't it be much simpler, given I only ever need to access 1 account?
I cannot find a way to retrieve data without having to display the Facebook login window. I have a script which will retrieve all my friends, but it includes a redirect where I have to physically log myself in to Facebook.
Would appreciate any advice or links, I just feel like I must be missing something simple.
Thank you!
Just posting up my notes on the successful advice, should others find this post;
Per Daniel and William's advice, I obtained the right permissions using the Connect options. From William, this link explains how the Facebook connection works
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/
This section on setting up the actual authentication was most helpful to me.
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/api
Basically, it goes as follows:
Post a link to the following URL. A user will need to physically click on it (even if that user is just you, the site admin).
https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/authorize?client_id=YOUR_CLIENT_ID&redirect_uri=http://www.example.com/HANDLER
This will redirect to a Facebook login, which will return to http://www.example.com/HANDLER after the user authenticates. If you wish to do more than basic reads and news feed updates you will need to include this variable in the above link: scope=offline_access,user_photos. The scope variable just includes a comma separated list of values, which Facebook will explicitly tell the authenticating user about during the login process, and they will have to OK. Most helpful for me was the offline_access flag (user_photos lets you get at their photos too), so I can pull content without someone logging in regularly (so long as I store the access token obtained later)
Have a script located at http://www.example.com/HANDLER that will take a variable from the request (so facebook will redirect to http://www.example.com/HANDLER&code=YOUR_CODE after authentication). Your handler needs to pull out the code variable, and then send the following request:
https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?
client_id=YOUR_CLIENT_ID&
redirect_uri=http://www.example.com/oauth_redirect&
client_secret=YOUR_SECRET_KEY&
code=YOUR_CODE
This request will return a string of the form access_token=YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN.
Just parse off the 'access_token=', and you will have a token that you can use to access the facebook graph API, in requests like
http://graph.facebook.com/me/friends?access_token=YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN
This will return a JSON object containing all of your friends
Hope this saves someone else some not fun time straining through documentation. Thanks for the help!
It is true, that Facebook's API is targeted at developers who are creating apps that will be used by many users.
Thankfully, the new Graph API is much simpler to use than its predecessor, and shouldn't be terribly difficult for you to work with without using or creating a lot of underlying infrastructure.
You will need to implement authorization, but this is not difficult, and as long as you prompt the user for the offline_access permission, it'll only need to be done once.
The documentation on Desktop Authentication would probably be most relevant to you at this point, though you might want to move to the javascript-based authentication once you've got a web app up and running.
Once the authentication is done, all you're doing is making GET requests to various urls and working with the resulting JSON.
Here's the documentation about Events, and you can get a list of friends from the friends connection of a User.
I'm not expert on Facebook/Facebook Connect, however I've seen it used/used applications with it and it seems there's really only the 'official' way to do it. I'm afraid it looks like your best bet would probably be something along the lines of this.
http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Connect/Authentication_and_Authorization
Regardless of how you actually 'use' it, you'll still need to authorize the application to connect to the account and this means having a Facebook App as well.
The answer to Facebook application authentication is hard to find but is actually found within the "Analytics" page of the Graph API.
Specify the following: https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?client_cred&client_id=yourappid&client_secret=yourappsecret , you will then be given an access_token that you may use on all other calls.
The Facebook provided APIs do NOT currently provide this level of functionality.
I just want to import my facebook status and photos to my personal django website but all the examples and documentation i can find are for developing facebook applications.
A simple rss feed would be enough but it doesnt seem to exist in facebook.
Do i really have to create a full facebook app to do this?
A simple facebook application isn't that hard ... excluding trying to decipher the soup on developers.facebook.com.
The "problem" is that you need to get an application key, application secret, and sometimes a session key in order to access the web services. Unless someone is sharing a service to do just that (I haven't looked, and you'd need to trust them) then the only way to fulfill the requirements are to create an application. However, the application key/application secret don't actually require that you write anything. They will show up in the Facebook Developer Application (the application that allows you to edit your applications...)
Now, all you need is a session key (however, a session key is not always required, see the Understanding Sessions link below) -- and hopefully a permanent one. To do this, ask for the extended offline_access permission**. If you grant that to an application then it can get a session for you whenever it feels like it (or rather, the session does not follow the one-hour expiration policies for that application). Extended permissions. Understanding Sessions. Oh, but ignore that 'auth.renewOfflineSession(UID)' example -- the method doesn't exist. I told you the "developer" documentation was soup :-)
You can use the URL in format:
http://www.facebook.com/tos.php?api_key=YOURAPIKEY&req_perms=offline_access to request the permission of yourself. Now see the links below :-)
Extra information in:
**I'm not entirely sure if new changes to the FB policy affect forever-sessions, but this link seems more than relevant to the task at hand:
http://blog.jylin.com/2009/10/01/loading-wall-posts-using-facebookstream_get/
Getting offline_access to work with Facebook
Facebook offline access step-by-step
(You need never post/share your facebook application -- you can keep it in sandbox mode forever.)
Probably. Anything that bypassed authentication would be a fairly large privacy issue.
With the release of the new graph api, this is pretty simple once you get your oauth token. Unfortunately you will need to create an app, but it can be a rather small one to get your oauth token so facebook can authorize your requests. You can use the python sdk here: http://github.com/facebook/python-sdk/
Once you have your token, you make a call to: https://graph.facebook.com/[your profile]/statuses?token=[your token]
And you will get json back.
If you first login to facebook and then go to the documentation page you can see the working example by clicking on the statuses link in the connections table.
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/user