I am developing a web application that I want to integrate with both Twitter and Facebook. At a certain time, messages will automatically be published on every user's feed, for both their Twitter and Facebook accounts.
I am currently working on the Facebook component. I know that in order to post to a user's feed on Facebook they must grant my app the publish_stream permission. Suppose I have a database of many users who have granted this permission. I want to publish a message on all of their feeds (visible to their friends). do I need to go through the database one-by-one and do an API call to post the message for each of them? This is the only way I can think of at the moment to do this, and it seems excessive to do this especially as the database gets larger and larger.
Is there a more efficient way to do what I describe?
Thanks.
I say its the only way to do it - anyway - what you say looks like bulk messaging which might be thought as spam from facebook privacy policy point of view. If you want to use facebook's platform to do the spreading of the message, then create a facebook page and make your apps users to like that, otherwise you'll have to do it "by hand" - sending the message to each one of your users. This has a positive side effect - you can personalize the message for each of your user (mention their name, their friends name, etc), making your application more social.
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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've been building a web app that uses facebook integration for easier registration/login and notifications for the users. However, for the notifications I want to be able to post to a users facebook wall when something happens on our site.
Really I see two possible problems with doing this. First being that the user will most likely not be logged in to our website when the notification needs to happen. Second I have not found a way to post to the feed using any identity other than the current logged in user.
So to reiterate exactly what I'm trying to do. When some action takes place on my site involving Bob, I want the websites application to post on Bobs wall notifying him of the action as if the application is one of Bobs friends. From some of the things I've seen while researching this, it seems as if facebook might not treat applications like users and I might have to go through a page to accomplish what I want. But really I'm ok with that.
What you need to do is to ask for the offline_access permission. Then you can store their graph id property after they login/authorize to your site's database. Then you just post to that graph id instead of instead of /me. In your case you would then POST a request to the "$user_graph_id/feed" endpoint with whatever parameters you usually have.
I'm using the server-side SDK to access Facebook Authentication.
After authorizing my app - even with the included example.php, I can go to App Privacy in settings then click on the app, then See Details in the Last data access section
And the dialog shows:
My App accessed the following information on your behalf:
Basic Information - Today
Likes, Music, TV, Movies, Books, Quotes, About Me, Hometown, Current City, Education History and Work History - Today
My Friends' Current Cities - Today
All I really need from the authentication is the userid and possibly name... I don't care about any other personal info. And yet even the example.php which is really basic seems to be requesting a lot.
Is there another way to authenticate without Facebook thinking I pulled all this data? I don't want users to be concerned about excessive data pulling when I'm not even pulling it.
The Stack Exchange authentication does not have this issue. It might be an issue in the PHP SDK?
The additional entries in the app access log are created for requests to the /me-object without a fields-parameter. So instead of accessing /me?access_token=xxx use /me?fields=id,name,...&access_token=...
Please note that the access log is not deleted when you remove an application. This may be quite confusing during testing because you will see old entries.
FB keeps deleting my application. I am thinking that the likely problem is that we allow users to share their score result with their friends, i.e. the user can select group of people who are also in the same group, and the script will post on all of their walls. I don't think that app is acting in any way not in accordance with FB policy. My guess instead is that due to relatively high amounts of requests to post feed [some users can select 100 and more friends]. Can it be so? Is there a way to post multiple feeds in single request, in that case?
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/guides/policy/policy_checklist/
Ensure that the application "does not provide users with the option to publish more than one Stream story at a time."
The behavior that Facebook wants you to use is that a user posts something on his own profile to share it with multiple people. Posting the same story on multiple profiles at once is contrary to how the social channels are meant to be used.