Hi I am developing an app to use along with a journal-system for managing a facebook group.
For this system i wish to impliment a way to ban specific users, and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, anyway this is the code i use for it.
try {
$ret_obj = $facebook->api(
'{actual group id}/members/{user id of the guy i am trying to ban}',
'DELETE'
);
} catch(FacebookApiException $e) {
echo $e->getType();
echo $e->getMessage();
}
And this is the error message outputted by getType() and getMessage() :
OAuthException(#3) Unknown method
my scope include "manage_pages"
From the official documentation:
Apps can remove people from groups that app has created
An app access token can remove any app users from a group created by that app.
So if the app did not create the user then it cannot remove it.
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I have problem with posting offer to page (which I am admin) via facebook api. It'is work, when I post feed to this page, but not for offers. This always return me FacebookSDKException with message : Invalid parameter. I use PHP (Laravel framework), but I think it does not matter on the language I use. I use this code:
try {
$response = $fb->post('/' . $page_id . '/offers' , $offerData, (string) $request->access_token
);
} catch (\Facebook\Exceptions\FacebookSDKException $e) {
return response()->json(['error'=>$e->getMessage(),
], 200);
}
where my "$request->access_token" is page access token. And in my "$offerData" I have this fields:
$offerData =[
'claim_limit'=>8,
'expiration_time'=>\Carbon\Carbon::now()->addDays(10)->toDateTimeString(),
'message'=>"bbb",
'title'=>"ascvc",
'coupon_required'=>false,
'image_url'=>'...',
'published'=>true,
'reminder_time'=>\Carbon\Carbon::now()->addDays(5)->toDateTimeString(),
// 'scheduled_publish_time'=>5
];
I also try do this by curl (not by first code) and by curl it returns similar error message.
"{"error":{"message":"Invalid parameter","type":"OAuthException","code":100,"error_subcode":1528104,"is_transient":false,"error_user_title":"Check Your Admin Permission Level","error_user_msg":"Only some admins of your Page are able to create and edit offers. Talk to the person responsible for your Page about your admin permission level.","fbtrace_id":"..."}}"
It looks that there is problem with permissions but at login to facebook I set this permissions:
['manage_pages', 'pages_show_list', 'email',
'user_hometown', 'publish_actions', 'user_photos', 'publish_pages']
I have no idea where is problem. I must to tell you that feeds on same page works fine, but not offers. Can you help me, please?
Take a look at the newer /nativeoffers endpoint; that should be a cleaner path through this one.
https://developers.facebook.com/ads/blog/post/2016/08/30/offer-ads-apis/
I have been testing the Facebook php sdk. I am able to search for pages & places but not groups. According to the documentation, this should return groups...
https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=programming&type=group
The below code works. If I change the type from "page" to "group", the code fails. I do not get an exception:
$query = urlencode('Harlem');
$type = 'page';
$results = $facebook->api('/search?q='.$query.'&type='.$type);
It depends on what kind of Access Token you're using. As of https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/search/#access_tokens searches for pages require an App Access Token, whereas searches for Groups require an User Access Token. Please check accordingly.
Okay, so I'm using php to post soundcloud widgets on my website(no need to explain why and how because thath's not wath's important)
Here is my code:
if (strpos($post['link'], 'soundcloud.com') !== FALSE)
{
echo "<iframe width=\"500\" height=\"150\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\"
src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/".$trackID."&color=ff6600&auto_play=false&show_artwork=true\"></iframe>";
}
My variable $post['link'] outputs the soundcloud link in this form https://soundcloud.com/alex-oancea/best-thing-about-you-original
What I would like to do is get the track's id from the link and declare it as $trackID because as you can see in my code(in the src="" part), the widget uses the track's ID
I have looked into the soundcloud API and many other threads on this site but I didin't find how to do this or how to write the code...
Thanks in advance!
Check http://developers.soundcloud.com/docs#resolving
You can click the PHP button on the example and get a good way of getting a track ID:
<?php
require_once 'Services/Soundcloud.php';
// create a client object with your app credentials
$client = new Services_Soundcloud('YOUR_CLIENT_ID');
// a permalink to a track
$track_url = 'http://soundcloud.com/forss/voca-nomen-tuum';
// resolve track URL into track resource
$track = json_decode($client->get('resolve', array('url' => $track_url)));
Now $track->id is your track ID.
Just be aware you need the SoundCloud API for this, and you'll probably have to register your app with SoundCloud to use the service. I have not had personal experience with any of this so I can't provide any information about those processes.
If you experiment on your local machine (xampp in your case), you CANNOT make it work, beause the 'REDIRECT_URL' cannot be anything else but a valid link to a hosted domain. The API just does not accept (for the good reason) url's containing "localhost" or or "192.168.x.x"-style url's. This is simply because the API really sends info to the 'REDIRECT_URL' and it needs to be able to reach it.
You need to get in touch with your hosting provider and setup a "live" dev environement.
Assuming you are using the php-soundcloud from the mptre's Github:
Check https://developers.soundcloud.com/docs#resolving (and even the '/resolve' indicated in the 'see also' section).
You can get a good way of getting a track ID by this way:
<?php
require_once 'Services/Soundcloud.php';
// create a client object with your app credentials
$client = new Services_Soundcloud('YOUR_CLIENT_ID', 'YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET');
// a permalink to a track
$track_url = 'http://soundcloud.com/forss/voca-nomen-tuum';
// resolve track URL into track resource
$track = json_decode($client->get('resolve', array('url' => $track_url), array(CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true)));
// display all the information from that track resource
var_dump($track);
Now $track->id is your track ID.
?>
Just be aware you need the SoundCloud API for this, and you have to register your app with SoundCloud to use the service (Register your app).
Another information is that Webservers where a basedir restriction is set and/or safe mode is active don't allow the CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION = true option. Here is a workaround for these webservers in the Soundcloud.php file.
I'm running in circle with this problem so I submit it here.
I have created a facebook fanpage and a website for my mother to promote her music. Since she is quite used to facebook I decided that instead of creating a whole backoffice, the website would simply display the fanpage's posts, photos and events. I do this with simple calls to
$data= $fb->api('/'.PAGE_ID.'/posts?fields=id');
for example (or 'notes', 'events'...). The problem is that I have to use a specific access token that I get from my own 'me/accounts/' permissions. From time to time (say every month) I have to go to the Graph API Explorer, get that token, and save it in the website config.
I'm wondering if I couldn't generate that access token server-side on my website, but I can't seem to make it happen. the facebook PHP SDK can't acces my api('/accounts') graph results unless I'm the authentified user (obviously), and a call to api(PAGE_ID.'?fields=access_token') only returns the page's ID.
What Am I doing wrong? can the facebook php sdk make api calls on my behalf (independently of users)?
More info : I created the fanpage, and a simple app called feed reader, with *manage_pages* permission. I'm the only user that authorized that app, and I don't want the user on the website to have to login (why should they? it's my fanpage, why would I need their *manage_page* permission?).
To be honest I kinda feel that public posts sould be public in the graph api too, but I'm sure there is a reason.
To be honest I kinda feel that public posts sould be public in the graph api too, but I'm sure there is a reason.
You can get to any users public posts like so:
Note: this assumes you are using the PHP SDK here http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/php/
$facebook = new Facebook(
array(
'appId' => 'fb_app_id',
'secret' => 'fb_secret',
)
);
$url = '/' . 'fb_username' . '/posts?fields=id,name,created_time,message,story,type&limit=10'; // you might need to screw with this some
$page = $facebook->api($url);
while(count($page['data']) > 0)
{
foreach($page['data'] as $fb_post)
{
// USE THEM DATAS
}
// Keep retrieving next pages until spent
$url_parts = parse_url($page['paging']['next']);
$url = '/' . 'fb_username' . '/posts?' . $url_parts['query'];
$page = $facebook->api($url);
}
this is an example from: https://github.com/fyaconiello/WP_Social_Network_Posts/ which pulls FB posts in and saves em as WP posts. It was written to answer a different question.
I have been investigating the Facebook Open Graph API. There is a "manage pages" extended permission which allows publishing to a user's Facebook Page news feed/wall via "impersonation". This is nice functionality, but is there anything more you can do through the API?
Specifically, I would like to be able to Add or Remove a "Tab" application from a user's Page via the API. Right now it's complicated to guide a user through the process of adding a tab app to their business (or Place) Facebook Page, and it would be AWESOME if they could just grant my app permission and I could add the app for them with the API.
Basically I am wondering if the API allows for true "page management", or just posting to the Page.
Anyone have any experience with this?
Is the best I can do pointing them to the "add.php" page with the "page" GET variable (e.g. http://www.facebook.com/add.php?api_key=xxxx&pages=1&page=xxxxxx)? This works OK for ADDING a tab application, but there is nothing at all to help them REMOVE an application from their Page so far as I know.
Thanks!
It is worth noting now, for anyone viewing this question (which is celebrating it's 1st birthday!), that Facebook significantly upgraded their API functionality back in July 2011. You can now Add, Remove, Rename, Reorder and set tabs as Default via the Open Graph API. The blog post is here:
https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/524/
And the official documentation is here:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/page/#tabs
What Facebook does NOT have yet is a new API method for creating new tab apps, or for changing the tab icon. This is a big step though!
UPDATE: There is bug on the new bug tracker to follow about creating apps in the API if you want to follow it and see what they do: http://developers.facebook.com/bugs/295627350461318
There's a way to do it via the API. We finally got it to work, after many hours of sweat and tears :)
You can add a tab to a page without leaving your app. Here's a snippet of code that we used for that. We get a list of pages that a user manages, show them in a drop down and ask them to select what page they want to add our "my agent profile" tab to.
And the final product looks something like this - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jennifer-Anderson-Real-Estate-Agent/185071901564573?sk=app_253956901293839
protected void btnAddTab_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (ddlPage2.SelectedIndex >= 0)
{
FaceBookPages page = FaceBookPages.LookupByPageID(long.Parse(ddlPage2.SelectedValue));
if (page == null)
throw new NPlaySysException("FaceBookPages is null.");
AnalyticLog log = new AnalyticLog();
log.EventID = FBCommon.Events.AddAgentAppTabID;
log.UserID = UserID;
log.EventTime = DateTime.Now;
log.Update();
string result = FacebookSvc.AddTab(Web.AgentAppID, "me", page.AccessToken);
if (result.Equals("true"))
{
FaceBookPages.UpdateAgentProfileAdded(page.PageID, true);
List<FaceBookPages> notTabbedPages = FaceBookPages.LookupAgentProfileNotAddedByUserID(UserID);
imgStep3.ImageUrl = StepDoneImagePath;
divStep3.Attributes["class"] = StepDoneCssClass;
phStep3.Visible = false;
Step3Done = true;
btnCloseStep3.Visible = false;
if (notTabbedPages.Count > 0)
btnEditStep3.Visible = true;
else
btnEditStep3.Visible = false;
}
else
{
lblErrorAddTab.Text = "Failed to add your profile to page.";
Web.EmailError(string.Format("FacebookSvc.AddTab Failed. result={0}<br />UserID={1}<br />PageID={2}", result, UserID, page.PageID));
}
}
}
Yes, the best you can do is direct them to the add.php url. You can't do anything to help them remove the app.
The good news is that the user used to have to go through the add process AND physically decide to "enable" the tab by finding it in the tab dropdown on the page. Facebook has recently changed that and it seems that the tab is now immediately enabled after a user adds the app to their page.
As for "has_added_app" that works... sorta. It will tell you if the app is added to the page, but it won't tell you if the tab is enabled. For example, a user can disable the tab but still technically have the app installed on the page. Therefore "has_added_app" will return true even though the tab isn't actually visible.