I'm just making a simple widget where I can display my facebook feed as customized, like grid view.
When I was submitting for app review, there was so much permission when it was my own feed only. I have no plans for visitors to like login into my site. It's just my own feed on my site on grid view.
Are there other simple ways to do this rather than graph API? Simply to get my facebook feed as JSON.
If it is just for your own account, you do not need review. Review is only neccessary if you want to enable other users to use your App - or, for example, if you want to get data of Pages you do not own.
Just use a User Token with the correct permissions to get your account data with the Graph API.
Related
I had this idea for an app/extension that adds functionality to Instagram by allowing the user to categorize all of the people/accounts they follow into groups related by subject (ex. Memes, Friends, Sports) and have the ability for the user to select certain groups they want to display in their feed. However, I'm not sure if the Instagram API can let me edit/get info about the users feed and their followers so I'm wondering if there is some other API/library I could implement or if Instagram's API can let me do this.
Any advice/tips about the following would be greatly appreciated
editing/adding custom UI to existing webpages
how to retrieve information about IG posts (ex. The account that posted)
Feel free to ask any questions I will try my best to respond as quick as I can.
Thanks
I once asked this question.
Is it possible to use Instagram API in order to make a user list according to the number of followers?
And I am not a programmer, just a salesman.
And it seems like we cannot make this influencer finding tool by using "official" Instagram API. So I have looked for other solutions and found a way to get data from Instagram by using other API and JSON.
Please refer to these links.
https://github.com/whizzzkid/instagram-reverse-proxy
How can I get a user's media from Instagram without authenticating as a user?
Obtaining Instagram Access Token
My goal is creating an influencer finding tool, so I need to find photos with #tag and make user list accordingly to the number of followers of the user.
My question is;
1 Is it possible to get data such as user name, follower numbers, photos with certain #tag? by using non-official API and JSON?
2 And suppose we made it, then Instagram will find out our products and ban our accounts or service? It seems they do not allow us to use non-official API.
I would appreciate it if you could teach me whether we can make it or not, in a way that you talk to the person who does not know much about JSON or so.
Thank you!
Using unofficial API is always risky, its against their terms and policy.
You can use official APIs to make get this info.
You first have to make hashtag API , which gives you posts with username (no follower count), then for each user, you have make another API call to get user info, this will give you follower counts, bio and other details.
The 2 APIs needed are below, you need public_content scope permission and have to get your app approved by instagram and go to live mode.
https://api.instagram.com/v1/tags/{tag-name}/media/recent?access_token=ACCESS-TOKEN
https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/{user-id}/?access_token=ACCESS-TOKEN
I am developing an application like http://www.reputation.com/
User have to input the URLs like https://plus.google.com/105836802564090875429/about and i have to fetch corresponding review/ratings and have to display on my screen.
All the process will be automated. As we have google place detail api available(https://developers.google.com/places/documentation/#PlaceDetails) but here we have to provide reference of a place.
Now i am stuck that how to find reference from my url(https://plus.google.com/105836802564090875429/about)?
How can I get the user's photo and name to show on my website and save them in MySQL?
This can be simply achieved by querying Graph API with id of user
http://graph.facebook.com/USER_ID?fields=name,picture
Results will contain name of the user and URL to his picture
you need to get permission from user that uses your application.
once you have user_photos permision you can do whatever you want.
you can find all permission in here: extended permission: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/permissions/#extended_perms
and look out here:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/photo/
Juicy is right that you can get that information. Turgut is not right about the authorisation as you can actually get that information for anyone if you know their Facebook Id. And therein lies the issue. If you are in a facebook app then facebook will post the user's id with the request for each page within the request object. But outside of facebook iframe apps you will need a way to query the users id. this can be done using the Facebook javascript api.
Here is some further reading:
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/
http://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/?method=GET&path=735915914
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/canvas/
visiting users Facebook ID w/out authorization?
I have a simple product catalogue for businesses. There is a catalogue's management interface for adding products. Each business has a unique domain name where all its products are listed.
I would like to extend catagloue's functionality and allow businesses to have their products listed on facebook.
Functionality of the facebook application:
- Each business can install application from catalogue's management interface (I would like to have a button that opens facebook in a new window and prompts user to authorize access to one of user's existing Facebook Pages)
- installing application adds a Tab on selected Facebook Page,
- by clicking on a Tab visitor of the Facebook Page is presented with a list of products specific for this business. Data for that page is dynamic and can be accessed with a REST call and presented as json or html.
We would like each business that have a product catalogue with us to install application and have it automatically configured to use specific domain name when requesting product data.
Is it all technically possible? Could you point me into the right direction on how to
- install application from external website
- configure that application with a parameter (perhaps passed in url when requesting application installation)
- automatically add Page Tab for this application
Cheers,
Michal
Yes it is possible. But it'll be a little different from what you are thinking, i guess.
I recently implemented code to add a tab to a page programmatically, it is as follows(in PHP) :
$tabAdded=$facebook->api("/".$id."/tabs","post", array("access_token" => $access,
"app_id" => $fbconfig['appid']));
From the code we see that we need an app id, an access token, and the page id($id). $facebook is an instance of the FacebookPHPSDK.
So here's how we can get the three things in question:
First app id, you'll need to create a Facebook page tab app, select Page Tab in the app's Basic settings (where you can mention the page tab url. This url will have the content for a page tab.) You'll also need to enable website because you need to ask the user for necessary permissions (namely manage_pages). For your specific requirement you have to give the domain of the catalogue management app.
Second page id and access token, once you have manage_pages permission you can query the graph api to get the pages of the user using : api('me/accounts') this returns data with page name, page category, page id, page access token for all the user's pages.
#thaddeusmt has already mentioned that you can't create new applications, and need to use the same app, you have to read the signed request and get the page id, and serve content. All that will be left to do is link your customer domains to the correct page ids.
Hope this was useful.
You can install/uninstall (add/remove) application tabs to/from Pages using the Facebook API:
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/page/#tabs
You cannot create new applications, however. So you will need to use the same application for each Page.
The way you can show different content for each Page in the Tab (using the same application) is by checking the Signed Request. This contains the ID of the Facebook Page. The code that serves up your application Tab can look at the Page ID and serve up the appropriate content for that Page.
I hope this helps get you on the trail. Good luck!
Yes it is possible.
It's a two way process
First you have to get page_access_token through graphAPI.
www.facebook.com/?fields=access_token
This will return Page_access_token.
Use page access token and use post method
www.facebook.com/yourpageid/tabs/
Post Parameters:
app_id= 'YourAppID'
access_token = 'access_token'
That way you can add your facebook app into facebookPage.