I was looking at websites like http://itstrending.com/, facediggs.com/ and I'm questioning myself how do they extract the most shared topics from facebook? I would like to build a similar widget for my blog. I searched the API but couldn't find anything.
I have no idea, but here are more sites that might provide additional insight into what you're looking for: http://mashable.com/2010/08/18/facebook-search-services/
I found this page which is worth looking at
http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/323
Half way down this page is a url you can use to check pages on your site, it returns xml with some good stats. Hope this helps.
Running an FQL (Facebook Query Language) query on the link_stat table.
Below: example url to put in your browser and press enter.
It returns xml with true and a count which you can use however you like. This returned 957 last time I tried it. Be carefull using quotes around the url you want to query.
How many facebook shares (total) does stackoverflow have?
Another example with 2 urls
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Is it possible to have facebook and twitter "AddThis" links pull a user's score from a game?
Im developing a simple HTML5 "quiz". There is a score counter set up that I would like to be able to echo to the Twitter and Facebook share options, but I cant seem to make this work and im not sure if it's even possible...
The counter is handled through JS and displays dynamically in "#score":
<div id="score-counter"><span id="score"></span<span>/20</span></div>
I would like to be able to share something like "I got '__'/20 on this game, can you beat me?"
Looked through a ton of documentation but still can't seem to figure it out... Can anyone advise how to go about accomplishing this?
Since the open graph is essentially a page scraper, you can't dynamically generate meta tags via javascript. Essentially, this answer is probably the right one which will ultimately lead you to this question/answer.
You would basically need to create a separate share url where you'd pass in query parameters for the page to read in order to dynamically spit out the correct meta tags for the open graph to see.
I'm building a website and am looking for a way to implement a certain feature that Facebook has. The feature that am looking for is the link inspector. I am not sure that is what it is called, or what its called for that matter. It's best I give you an example so you know exactly what I am looking for.
When you post a link on Facebook, for example a link to a youtube video (or any other website for that matter), Facebook automatically inspects the page that it leads you and imports information like page title, favicon, and some other images, and then adds them to your post as a way of giving (what i think is) a brief preview of the page to anyone reading that post.
I already have a feature that allows users to share a link (or URLs). What I want is to do something useful with the url, to display something other than just a plain link to a webpage, to give someone viewing a shared link (in the form if a post) some useful insight into the page that the url leads to.
What I'm looking for is a script, or tutorial, or at the very least someone to point me in the right direction, so that it can help me accomplish this (using PHP preferably).
I've tried googling it but I don't know exactly what such a feature would be called and google isn't helpful when you don't exactly know what you're looking for.
I figure someone out there, in this vast knowledge basket called stackoverflow, can help me with this. Can anyone help me?
You would first scan the page for URLs using regex, then you would parse the pages those links reference with a php DOMDocument. You could use the parsed document to obtain any information you need from the webpage.
DOMDocument:
http://php.net/manual/en/class.domdocument.php
DOMDocument->load (loads a file, aka a webpage):
http://php.net/manual/en/domdocument.load.php
the link goes through http://www.facebook.com/l.php
You pass a URL to this and facebook filters it.
I am building a restaurant review site using php. I wanted to know how to show reviews from other reviews sites. For example check this link to see how google is picking up reviews from other sites. When clicked on, it takes you to their review site.
Any help will be appreciated. Thanks
First, make a list of the sites that you want to pull reviews from. Second, read through those sites and see if they have a developer section and if they expose a public API. If they do, look around to see if they have any client libraries for php which you can use to access their API from your php site. If they do have an API but there are no client libraries available, contribute to the community by creating a client library and sharing it as open source. :)
Also, it may be possible that they have an RSS feed of their reviews that you can consume easily of your site, so check that out too.
You will probably find the other sites have partnered with Google for this, however I would be using cURL to get the information you want.
I would suggest you start here with cURL, then have a look here to extract the portion you're looking for.
Edit: the section of the second link that is relevant is
preg_match_all("/<div>.+<\/div>/", $page, $matches);
print_r($matches);
What this is doing is getting the content you're looking for and then displaying it, you will probably need to define the unique elements with the content you want however, this could mean a separate rule for each website.
I hope this helps for you.
I think google find News, Blog , Reviews and something like that by site map what web administrators introduce to google as sitemap.xml .
To do this you must get page content what you want to fetch it's reviews ( By CURL or something like that to get remote file ) and fetch reviews by regular expression of HTML
I tried with graph api asked many things to there but none of them are returns comments.
I want to get all comments, and put in a separate page for search engines to scan and index.
comments are very rich full and I want them
You can retreive comments (actually posts and their comments) from the Comments plugin from this api url:
https://graph.facebook.com/comments/?ids={$url_of_your_page}
please see the documentation here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/
the table you need to query is this here:
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/comment/
(it is also one of the first examples)
the key is that you can specify an identifier for every comment plugin that you embed. using this identifier you can then select comments using the graph api.
regarding search engines you should not make the impression that you are serving different content to the spiders than to the users so it would probably be a good idea to load the comments over the api by default (please cache them) and then replace it by the javascript box if javascript is available, so the users can write new comments.
even better (in my opinion) would be always to display the comments in html in your website and only load the facebook comments plugin if the user wants to make a new comment. but that probably requires one additional step for the user.
you can also read about the ajax chrawling scheme
If you want to use the graph API what you do is grab the comment ID in the json (the very first number you see and it appears as {user_id}_{status_message_ID} example: 1234_5678910) and then have https://graph.facebook.com/{the number you got}?access_token={access token}
Do reduce strain what you could do is run the system that you do to put all the status messages and comments onto your website (for instance a 'for each' or 'while' statements etc) then add an 'if' statement that says if count (under comments on the json) is more than 3 it'll retrieve the json for that post using the id and spit out your data.
I hope this was of some help. Please say if you want anything explained further.
Regards,
Jon
You can use this url to get comments of an url and paginate them:
?fields=og_object{comments.order(reverse_chronological).limit(10).after(NgZDZD)}&id={YOUR_URL}
Even It works with latest(v2.10) graph version.
I want to write an app that parse particular threas on a phpbb forum. So if a thread has 200 pages with 10 posts (that doesn't give you the ability to adjust the post count per page), and has an address like this:
http://www.forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=10&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
where start parameter changes when you navigate to the next pages of the same thread, how do you get the full thread in one go?
I tried:
http://www.forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=10&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0&end=2000
but didn't work.
Surely there must be a way to do this I imagine.
If you're parsing, just parse each page, then add up the results in the end. If the forum doesn't have an open API, or any way to display all of the posts on one page, this is what your are going to have to do. Perhaps you could write a recursive function that checks for a 'next page' link or something similar, follows it, then returns all of the data from the pages compiled.
EDIT: looking at example url you gave, have you tried changing the t variable? you said it was 10 posts per page, and that was set to 10, so maybe that's what controls posts per page.
http://www.forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=2000&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
Some super handsome fellow wrote a MOD for this if it is your forum:
http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=69&t=1101295