I've built a little mobile web app for the town I live in which aggregates a lot of info and makes it readable. Lately, on my android phone browser, when I go to a certain page it asks me do I want to open it with Browser or MX Android Player. I've looked at the request headers in Chrome and I can't find anything wrong with it. I've had someone test this on an iphone and the issue doesn't happen. Any ideas?
The site in question is http://sligo.me
The page throwing errors is http://sligo.me/Events.
This has nothing to do with your page. It rather has something to do with MX Android Player. Android allows its app to register for URLs to be handled through them. In this way if Chrome is installed on a phone and the user clicks on an URL the system will ask if it should use Chrome or Browser to open the URL. The user can now select a default app or make the choice every time she clicks on a URL.
An app can also register for some URL parts only. A good Twitter app would register for all URLs with the host Twitter and then display the content of that page inside the app.
I guess that MX Android Player registered for some URLs and the http://sligo.me/Events matches that filter. You could experiment a little bit and try to change the URL part that the filter matches. More information about this filtering can be found in the Documentation about Intents and Intentfilters
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I am currently running several ads on facebook and I have just started using the facebook-click-id to replace facebook-pixels for the tracking. For some reason I have found that there are a lot of clicks coming in through the ads without the fbclid-parameter attached to the url as a get-parameter.
Through a google search I have found out that the only reasons the fbclid-parameter would not be attached to the url would be that the user clicking on the ad is not logged in to facebook or that the user is using his/her browser with the incognito-mode activated.
It seems odd to me that so many clicks could happen under those circumstances. Which is why I am wondering if there are other reasons why the facebook-click-id (fbclid-parameter) would not be attached to the url.
Are there any other reasons why the fbclid-parameter would not be attached to the outgoing url of a facebook ad? Thanks!
after doing some tests trying to solve the same problem, what I noticed is that fbclid parameter did not appear in outbound links when using the browser built into the mobile Facebook app.
So, I think that this is a Facebook limitation.
Hope it helps,
I have spent a lot of time reading FB dev docs and tutorials but I am still very confused with what canvas app and page tab are and how to use them.
What I am expecting from using FB SDK in my site is to have "continue with facebook" button on login screen , have a couple of share and like buttons and send notifications to facebook if user have allowed that. My site has internal messaging system and I want to notify users that new message or activity has happened in my site. In this way users would not have to check my site every day for activity which is important user experience as I expect rare activity(approx. few activities per week).
I have everything running but after user clicks on notification he is taken to canvas app. FB docs and tutorials focuses on code examples but I have not found anywhere description on what canvas app really is. Without this fundamental understanding I can not complete my notification logic, can not understand the terms involved like "secure canvas url" and basically does not feel confident about user experience(which I would want to make as great as possible).
If I google "what is facebook canvas app" I get "Canvas is an immersive and expressive experience on Facebook for businesses to tell their stories and showcase their products.". Apparently from comment below thats something else...
I would appreacite If someone could explain in plain word and maybe example what is canvas app and how should I use if taking into account that my main goal is to notify users about acitivity in my site to their fb account.
I am using CI framework PHP SDK v5.
Background
In Facebook, you create "apps" that run on "platforms". As a quick, very simplified summary, the three primary types of "platforms" that apps can run are:
A website that you host and control, but integrated with the Facebook Graph API (has Facebook Login, posting etc), but otherwise looks like a normal website. You host these on your own servers.
A website designed to sit inside an iFrame on the Facebook Platform. These apps will also generally interact with Facebook Graph. You still host them on your own servers but you have the added advantage that but can get limited information about the user when the page loads.
Stand alone programs (including mobile applications) that also interact with the Facebook Graph.
What you are talking about is the second of these - the iFrame on Facebook.
Facebook provide two ways to embed the application iFrame:
one is a canvas app. This has minimal surrounds for Facebook Header, Footer and a few ads on the right. It maximises your space. (e.g. https://apps.facebook.com/candycrush/?fbs=-1&fb_appcenter=1)
the other is a "page tab" (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/pages/tabs). This is smaller and designed to sit in a company's "Facebook Page" so has less space. As a marketer, however, it keeps everything more branded to your company. (Example: https://www.facebook.com/NutellaANZ/app/595447743881506/)
Note that a single app can run across all the above - canvas, a page tab and a stand-alone HTML page. With some shifting of the API, you can also wrap the same code for mobile and put on the app stores. A user can log in on your mobile app and you can have them logged in on websites and vice-versa (within some limits, but you'll need to explore those).
Games Only?
You are right in that most of the Facebook docs relating to apps refer to games.
Indeed a good place to start is https://developers.facebook.com/docs/games/gamesonfacebook which is where help leads you for Canvas Apps now.
But it doesn't have to be a game - so long as you're using the APIs anything will work. As you mention PHP, have a look at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/php/howto/example_access_token_from_canvas - no mention of a game, but is how you get information from the iFrame in PHP. (There's a lot more reading to do!).
Reading notifications
When clicking on the notification, Facebook will add parameters to the URL. Some of these are determined by the notification (see https://developers.facebook.com/docs/games/services/appnotifications) and others will help you get information about the user (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/login/signed-request, https://developers.facebook.com/docs/php/SignedRequest/5.0.0).
So use this information server-side to work out who the user is and how you want to handle the user. But what experience you want to give the user once you're in the Facebook eco-system is up to you.
I'm trying to develop a Facebook App that works using Unity3D as front-end but using a PHP Web server to do the Facebook request saving the private key there.
I tested various things like uploading photos and comments an then it get reflected the new App Insigths of the App as Stories Published.
The thing I can't achieve is to see the Likes and Comments of those Stories, it remains 0.
¿There is something that I don't understand about the Likes/Comments there, or I'm doing something bad?
Thank you all.
P.D: Sorry about my English ^^'
Edit:
I can't provide example code of what i've done but I can explain it.
Actually my front-end do get requests to a backend PHP server that do the requests to Facebook.
When a user want to log in the server return the login url in a string and the front-end launches a Internet navigator (in my case is Google Chrome).
The callback url given to Facebook go to a site that closes automatically the navigator and putting in first plane my front-end.
From there you can do the request to the back-end to publish stories in Facebook and then log-out
Actually this is what my application do and it works. The only problem is that the comments and likes that those stories got are not reflected in the App Insights section.
I've been working on an app for IG, and was looking at other websites which use the IG API. I came across this website which allows the user to login by entering their username and password directly into the site. It is then able to access the IG API and fetch things like follower count, however without the user authenticating an IG API Client as would normally be required. The app can even perform functions such as liking pictures using your account, which as far as I know also requires you to authenticate an app with elevated privileges.
My question is, how is this app able to login users without using OAUTH which appears to be the only method of authentication?
They probably use a web automation framework like Selenium to take actions like auto-linking content by actually logging in to the Instagram web site with the accounts credentials and simulating mouse clicks, etc. to get the job done. In other words their "script" just looks like a very active user to Instagram because it's all coming from interactions between a web browser and their site.
They definitely are not using the API. Several reasons you can know this:
no OAuth flow to get an access_token
they don't appear in the authorized applications section if you log in and manage your profile
what they are doing is a violation of the API Terms of Use. See the following under "shall not"
Use the Instagram APIs to post automated content to Instagram, including likes and comments that were not initiated and entered by an Instagram user.
I'm no lawyer and I have no inside information, however it seems clear enough to me that Instagram does not want this type of "bot" activity.
They claim that they have the timing set up in a way that they go undetected, but I think it's a safe bet that there are algorithms at Instagram trying to detect and prevent this type of activity and if they do, accounts would be at risk of being disabled, etc. I have not inside knowledge here, just speculation.
The Instagram application that you use from your cellphone uses HTTP/HTTPS communication with their application server. The link that you provided on the question uses to simulate those http calls to mimic as an Instagram application.
You can redirect your cell phone's Internet connection through the proxy(your own proxy server). From your proxy server catch the web requests those are being sent by the Instagram application when you are doing login, liking, etc.
It will be easy for you if the requests are through http channel. But if its through the https, then it will be really difficult to capture those. You can try with Fidler or some sort of similar softwares for this.
What I THINK is happening is the following:
They are logging your PHPSESSID and using that so you have the ability to like pictures and whatnot. They are doing all of the back-end work directly in index.php.
If you track the requests that are being sent to index.php through the Network tab in Chrome, you will see that "Cookie:_ instamacro_advcontent=1; PHPSESSID=" on the index.php file "Headers" tab.
I'm doing the same with my website that uses Vine's API(not public, btw). In a PHP file I created called api.php, I use Vine's API to perform actions. I do not use OAUTH at all. I simply use the users "x-vine-session" cookie.
Hello I am looking to build a basic API and application/apps system on my social network something like Facebook or other sites have, my site is in php/mysql. Here are some questions.
1)
Basically what I want to do is give a user a API key and secret. After I have these how can I use them in my php app to authenticate a user request which would come from there server?
2)
I can basically build an API to send a request to my server with CURL and get the result back to the page in XML or JSON or whatever, the problem is when sending the request the user would have to know the user ID they want to send to lookup data against, this is fine for an API but I am wanting to have an Apps section where the user's app site would be using the API and would be loaded into my site in the app section with an iframe, the problem is, I need to find a good way to make it where a logged in user on my site can go to the app section and go to an app and there username should be available to that page loaded in the iframe. Facebook and myspace do this somehow and many other sites; I am lost how to get around this hurdle.
Any help on any of this is really appreciated, thank you
Update:
I just had an idea, if I require a cookie to be set when a user visit's my site, then they would have a cookie and it could hold there User ID, then my API script could look for that cookie to exist and grab it's value?
If you plane on using an IFRAME, then no, your API hosted on a separate website (the website inside the IFRAME) would not be able to grab the cookie. The cookie is only visible on the website that it was set for.
I have only used Facebook API with the FBML (not the IFRAME,) but all they do their is basically replace what's in the page with the info that the "tag" is calling. I'm not sure if there is a better way, but you could possibly call a page on the app's server (say the app is hosted at http://example.com/app/, and you called http://example.com/app/?id=28318&name=John%20Maguire,) and have your API code handle it and turn it into a variable?
Maybe you should look into the source code of the Facebook API client.