In Facebook's API, the Graph Explorer(https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer) provides data on requested queries using Facebooks graph structure. When choosing the three fields,"ID, name, posts", the explorer returns all of the users posts of the user's wall, filtering out any activity the user has done anywhere else. It is strictly what is on the user's wall.
The problem here is that whenever I make a new application and test the applications data results using the Graph API explorer I always get similar, but extra information. The extra information is what's included in the user's, "Recent Activity", feed.
In the graph explorer if you look at the top there is a choice for an application, you can switch to the application you've made. Then when requesting an access token, you can select the, "read_stream", permission which allows an application to read a user's stream data i.e wall, news feed, etc.
The GET requests made by the Graph API Explorer application deliver different results then a custom made app using face book's developer API.
I've tried to locate the problems within the access tokens, but I've had no luck.
The access token is calculated based on the permissions you request.
Every time you change the permissions you are asking for, the access token will change.
I'm almost sure that Facebook Debugging App requests for some permissions you are not requesting, therefore you will not be able to replicate the results you get with their app in yours.
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Recently I've been building an application that uses the Facebook graph API (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/user/locations/)
I've recently realised that the locations it has been grabbing both in my application, and in the Graph explorer have been missing lots of locations I have been tagged in.
I use to be able to retrieve over 500 locations (multiple pages) from Facebook, now I'm receiving less than 500 (single page). This is both in my application and in the explorer (https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/?method=GET&path=me%2Flocations%3Flimit%3D500)
If anyone has any ideas that would be great - this is for my final year developmental project at university.
You need to provide the graph api a access token to receive a users locations
I think if you've the following permissions you'll get all the locations of the user-
user_photos
user_status
friend_photos
friend_status
You can check what all permissions your access token is carrying in Debugger.
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I need to be able to consolidate all the likes from users that use my Facebook app into an Excel or .csv file. I can have the user authenticate within my Facebook app, but is there a way to see the likes for all users of an app using Open Graph or some other Facebook tool? I'm certain that someone else must have had this problem, and I'm hoping that one of you can help me out!
I've been trying to run FQL queries to bring up likes, but don't have any experience with PHP so it has been miserable so far. Any ideas?
There's no way to retrieve a list of users of your app - you'll need to manually build that as users authorise the app see this question for more information
Assuming you have permission to access a user's likes connection - access /USER_ID/likes and parse the response, saving it to a file in accordance with whatever language you're using's syntax (google is your friend here)
Note that your use of the data is subject to Facebook's policies and user's consent in accordance with your privacy policy and sharing it with third parties may be illegal (i am not a lawyer, this is not official advice, etc etc)
Here is the problem with that the application type does not have a like connection. Application Object GraphAPI This is inconvenient when you are looking to gather data on the users that like it.
OR were you talking about the likes endpoint of the user object? That you can gather but I dont think it is what you are looking for. It is shown here Graph Explorer Example - user's likes
I have a contest App. And many users have installed the app. I have stored the offline_access tokens of these users. I want to send a message to all users of app at the end of contest. What is the best way to do it. Because when I do it in a while loop the page never loads and browser just shows loading animation gif on tab.
You don't even need the user access tokens to accomplish something similar to what you're trying to do.
First off, mass-wall posting is both a violation of the Facebook Platform Policies (specifically IV.2, IV.3), but it's also really spammy and users will react negatively, probably blocking your app and ultimately it may get banned from Facebook. So don't do that.
Instead, you should utilise the intended social channel for notifying users of new content, App to user Requests.
This is pretty simple to do, as per the Graph API docs for apprequests you just make the following API call:
https://graph.facebook.com/USERID/apprequests?app_access_token=APPTOKEN
Where USERID is each user's Facebook ID and APPTOKEN is always your applications unique access token (see the documentation here if you do not know how to obtain one of those). You will also need to include parameters such as message, which you can read more about in the docs.
I'm tryin to develop a (almost) 100% client-side dynamic website by integrating it with twitter, facebook and flickr.
I've been able so far to get the last 4 tweets (with javascript) from my client's feed, and now i was wandering if i could do the same with facebook's gallery and events from their feed.
Especially, what i need (given the facebook username/api key/whatever)
gallery
for each gallery in user's profile:
get the gallery name
get the first picture
get the gallery url
news/events
for each news/event/post in user's profile:
get the event name
get the event text
get the event picture (if provided)
get the event url
I don't want to use the facebook widgets with their rendering, i just need to read the json response (if there's any) and put the data inside my website (like a preview).
Since my client is pretty rusty with "computers (cit.)" but he's (not so strangely) comfortable with facebook/twitter/flickr, i tought about a solution like this before adding a database and an admin interface to our website.
I found some resources online, so i think it's possible (in a way or another). I'd like to do it in javascript, but if it's php i won't complain.
Check out this API to get photoes from the user profile
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/album/
This is for events
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/event/
You can use either the PHP or the Javascript API SDKs:
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/php/
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/javascript/
respectively. Naturally you would handle the returned information differently. Both have a method called api() which can be utilised to grab the album and event objects (as mentioned in another answer):
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/album/
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/event/
You can pass parameters in the methods to restrict the results returned by fields, number of items, sizes of images etc. This is outlined here:
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/
But the issues you are going to face is that you have to authorise your "app" - think website when they use the terminology "app" - to give it permissions to access the information. This takes the form of a two step process. You have to create the app on the Facebook platform which can then access the API methods (only certain information can be got from the API methods without an authenticated app).
The second part is that the user themselves must then authenticate their facebook account against your app - this gives your app permission to access the user's information. In plain English it would go like this:
User visits your webpage; user must be logged into Facebook and must approve your app (this used to be called Facebook Connect for obvious reasons); the app and the user account are "connected"; the app can then use the api methods you've written to return information about the connected user
The beginning explanations of how to do this are here:
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/
The only way you can access a user's (non-public) information from outside of Facebook is via a connected app and user profile.
So I simply want to add my current facebook status to my personal website. I have been looking at tutorials and other posts about fb and fb connect, but I am still confused.
Is there anyway to do this with simple REST calls? Like twitter or flickr?
From what I understand I dont need FB connect because I am just getting my own status and do not need to get any info from other visitors.
Any know how to do this?
Facebook does have an API, but unfortunately, you cannot use it without acquiring a secret key. Because Facebook gives users control over their data privacy settings, there is no "public access" to data retrieval methods. You must have a key in order to start fetching things.
All facebook applications are given a secret key when they are created. Users can prevent applications from retrieving their data if they want, hence the need for an associated key.
Facebook Connect applications function in the same way... they are assigned a key that is used remotely from a third-party site (ie. yours).
Unfortunately, without one of those keys you won't be able to access any data, even your own. You could probably come up with a work-around by making your own application and using that key to fetch data on yourself, but you'll need to go through some hoops to make it work on a permanent basis (ie. without a new session each time), like granting the offline_access extended permission.