I'm currently trying to develop a Chrome extension which can receive notifications using GCM. When the extension is first installed, I register it using chrome.gcm.register(['my_sender_id'], function(registration_id) { console.log(registration_id); });.
I would like to send push messages to everyone who has the extension installed. However, the problem is that GCM requires you to specify the registration ID's of everyone you want to send the message to; you can't just send it to everyone who's connected to the sender ID.
While it would be possible to push the registration ID to a database when the extension is installed, and then consult this database each time I want to send a message, this solution seems sub-optimal (also from a security point of view, since the pushing of the registration ID would be done client-side).
However, Google introduced a solution for this a few years ago: topics. It's possible to simply register each device to a 'global' topic (for example) and when you then want to send a message, you only have to specify the 'global' topic as the receiver. However, I can't find how this registration process is done for Chrome extensions. I've looked everywhere, but it seems like Chrome's GCM module doesn't support this yet. Am I correct in this and if so, is there an alternative way to pull this off?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
If you call chrome.instanceID.getToken and then use the InstanceID API from your server to subscribe to a topic, it seems to work, but then the chrome extension doesn't get messages when you push to that topic, so I'm not sure if Google just needs to enable something on their side to make it work. But this is the closest I could get to it in any case.
firebaser here
Thanks for the great feedback. There is no way at the moment to subscribe to a topic from a browser. We're aware that having such an API would simplify the development model. We'd love to add this to Firebase, but as usual can't make any promises or commitments.
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at my company we want to make use of the relatively new API feature "Automerge" (not through a UI but through an API call),
However we can't seem to find any documentation of a webhook (or other asyc way) of finding out if a merge request failed and why,
anyone know a way to receive such a notification?
Thanks! :)
Hope this saves some work for someone out there,
we asked Github.com support directly and they said there was no async / webhooky way of doing this (as of Nov 2021).
Here's a quote from the support person when asked if there were a way to find out, here's what they wrote:
There wouldn't be a great way to discern that (reason for failure) and
it may be better when you see that, to use the REST API to Get the
Pull Request to get some additional information.
looking at the documentation as suggested in the quote above it seems that through the "closed" action and "merged" key one could discern whether a merge was successful or not, but without any further information about the failure.
I'm new to iOS development and I'm trying to make an app that tracks my student loans. I would like to have the app simply display a balance found on the loan's website and build on that behavior. I've got my app to open up safari to the website but I'd like more of a web-crawling behavior so it's done in the background. This web-crawler needs to be able to login to the website and then find a field with the loan balance value..
I've looked up several ways on how to do this but I can't get any of them to work with my novice level of experience with swift. If anyone has a recommendation and a direction to go with this, that would be great.
Thanks in advance!
I've written an app to get my uni's schedules, payment records, and grades by bypassing the login and gain access to API used by the website.
The step you could take are probably very similar to mine
Find out how the website authenticate its users (could be by cookie, session id's etc) You need to have some knowledge on web too. You can use the network tab on Chrome/Brave/Safari or any other browser to see what the website is doing when you click on 'login' for example. You could use Charles too, 30 days of trial should be enough.
After authentication succeed, track what API route the website use to get the datas to html. See what information you need to access the API route. Postman would be very handy to see the JSON response by the API.
To parse the response, you can use URLSession or networking library like Alamofire to get the job done.
If you want to see how I did it, here's the GitHub repo.
I'm trying to integrate LinkedIn API v2 to the app I'm developing for my client and I need help with it. Basically, I need to allow users to fetch some of their LinkedIn profile data and save it to the platform. As I understood, the first version of the API will no longer be supported. https://developer.linkedin.com/docs
So, the problem is that the default field set I was able to retrieve is extremely limited. And it seems like I should apply for the Developer Program here to gain additional API access
https://business.linkedin.com/marketing-solutions/marketing-partners/become-a-partner/marketing-developer-program
I already submitted the application but haven't yet received any response. The frustrating part is that I'm not even sure if this is what I should do to get access.
Here's what I already discovered
Here it's said that the partner's program isn't available
https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/97491
Here it sends me to the partner program
https://developer.linkedin.com/support/faq
Should I choose marketing? https://developer.linkedin.com/partner-programs
I suppose so because other options seem to be irrelevant. So I already applied here
https://business.linkedin.com/marketing-solutions/marketing-partners/become-a-partner/marketing-developer-program
But still no answer
Here are the developers facing the same issues with no answer as well
https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/forum/question/712591
https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/forum/question/711176
https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/forum/question/711027
Here seems to be the answer to a similar question but still, no specific link or steps to apply for a partner's program
LinkedIn API V2 - Can't get summary, skills and headline
Here they also tell about some partner's program but again without specifics
Linkedin oauth2 r_liteprofile not being returned from api
Here in the official doc, it's also said that I should apply to the program (which I did)
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/consumer/integrations/self-serve/migration-faq?context=linkedin/consumer/context
I applied on the 23rd of January and I'm still waiting for the approval without even knowing if this program will give me the API access I need
So I need to know one of the following
If my application will be approved it'll give me the extended access to the API v2 (r_fullprofile permission)
If the application I submitted isn't enough what else should I do in order to get the extended access to the API v2 (r_fullprofile permission)
It feels to be a simple process and I don't really understand why it has to involve the Marketing Developer Program when I only need to access some of the fields. I'm sure there is a reason for that. Could anybody from support provide some steps that I or my client should take on order to get the API access?
I already created the app as a developer here and successfully tested it
https://www.linkedin.com/developers/apps
So, just to be clear, the problem is not in something not working technically. It's just that I receive a very limited set of field of a user's profile and I need to expand it
I apologize for asking this here instead of Google's forums, but I find that they tend to yield no results at all, ever.
I have a domain verified on Google Apps through HTML file upload, which I am currently using for email.
I don't recall exactly how I prompted the verifications, but I got prompted for one about a week ago for another address#mydomain.com, and I'm trying to find out how I can void the verifications through HTML, so I can switch to the newer method of creating a DNS record.
And finally, is there a way an individual can void unauthorized verifications through Google? For example if someone verified a domain you currently own at an earlier point in time? Google doesn't allow any support contact for normal Apps accounts.
Thank you for any assistance.
Trying to verify the account or the domain?
What do you see when you go into the control panel?
If you use HTML validation and then change the IP of your web server you might get requested to re-validate.
Best use DNS validation.
Good luck.
I am an android application developer (trying to be one) and I want to learn how to communicate with web sites from my applications. However, I don't know where to start. Can you point me in the right direction?
PS : I believe "web communcation standarts" is wrong term but i don't know how to call them.
I'd suggest that you learn by doing. Pick an idea - let's say you want to upload a picture from your Android phone to facebook.
Now go and research how to do that. Facebook exposes what they call the "Graph API" for all fb resources, including users, statuses, and photos, among other things. The Graph API is a REST API - in other words each item on the backend is modelled as a "resource" which is accessible from a URL. (Learn more about REST on wikipedia). Send a GET HTTP message to the given URL and you can get information on the resource. Send a POST to the container of that resource, and you can add another of whatever it is. In this model, to add a photo, you POST to the album URL. Read on FB for how to do that. They call it "publishing".
But reading that doc page you learn that in order to POST you need an authorization token.
Your app needs publish_stream permissions. How do you get that? Keep reading in the FB doc and you'll see a link to the Authentication and authorization guide. That tells you about how to use OAuth 2.0 in Facebook apps.
Your app will send its first feeble message out, and get an error response. Why? You'll want to examine the message. so you google and figure out that you can use an http debugging proxy to help you, something like Fiddler2 for Windows, or Charles for other systems. So you download that, set the proxy on your Android device, and now you can view outgoing HTTP messages and their responses on your PC.
Keep plugging along, learning what you need to accomplish the task in front of you: in this example, posting a photo from an android device to Facebook.
After you reach that goal, you will have learned quite a bit of practical knowledge for this domain of problem. Then you can try a new goal, and work on that.
After a few iterations of this, you will have learned how to learn, which is even better than learning REST or OAuth. If you know how to learn, the sky's the limnit.
Learn about HTTP first. There is far more to HTTP than there first appears. It is a building block for everything on the web.
You will not go wrong by getting very familiar with this http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html