As usual, I'm having problems due to a lack of clear guide in the Facebook API Documentation.
Basically I have created an application that is installed to Facebook Pages, I want to periodically post automatically via my server to the Stream of these pages (of course, willing to have it authorised, etc), but I am just unable to find how to do this. I've looked at stream write, etc, but not sure how to best make use of this. I've looked at Extended Permissions, should this simply just work for Pages? I'm experimenting but not having too much luck at the moment.
Any ideas guys? Also, am I able to make use of the new "targetting" of users that Page administrators have when posting to a Page now?
Sorted out my previous problem, simply now wondering whether I can location target posts as Page admins are now allowed to do.
I am using PHP with the latest library updates btw.
Big thanks!
The way to post feed stories/streams is to use stream.publish function, check it out here:
http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Stream.publish
And for automated publishing, you need to use cron job, here is how to get started with that:
http://www.aota.net/Script_Installation_Tips/cronhelp.php3
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Wondering if someone can provide some direction.
I'm creating a Wordpress plugin that will be publicly available (free). The plugin is meant to allow bloggers to include a definition widget using bootstrap's data-toggle.
Since I don't want people stealing the content without attribution, the hyperlink will be pulled out from a private API.
Here's how I think this should flow, but I know that there are things that are inefficient:
Create a private API that houses all of the data. It might be as 3
branches of data:
id -- name -- definition
Have the plugin authenticate somehow with the server
Plugin creates a shortcode in Wordpress ie. [define="term"]anchor[/define]
When the shortcode is called, it pings the server and stores something locally in their sql db.
Additional Notes/Concerns
I understand that there is nothing such as being hack-free or altered free. But I want to get as close as possible.
A couple exploits I can see happening is if people change the cached info in the SQL DB. Is there a way to potentially kill the data-toggle content if this happens?
Also, I don't want people to be able to create their own calls to our API creating their own programs. That's not the intended use of this.
I apologize if my thoughts seem cluttered, but I can't seem to figure out a solid workflow in where I should get started with this.
If anyone can help bring clarity, I would greatly appreciate it.
I would be inclined to do the following:
Give every user a unique API token or other credentials
Link every token to a single IP address and reject any requests where the token doesn't match the IP address.
That way if you become aware of someone misusing the content you need only delete their token to prevent access, and can be reasonably sure that it's not being used on another server. Users can enter the API credentials in the plugin admin.
I think OAuth2 will probably be the way to go to authenticate clients - it's made for granting access to client applications and there are plenty of implementations available. You'd need to add the ability to verify that the user matches the IP, but that shouldn't be difficult.
So a while back I used to use the twitter json search in one of my apps but it seems since the change in API versions there has been some major changes which even after reading the documentation I still can't get my head around and it really doesn't make it very easy to understand so hopefully one of you tech guys out there can help me out.
I want to clean my application up so it works again in plainly doing the following:-
http://search.twitter.com/search.json?
q='+param+'&
rpp=100&
result_type=recent&
lang=en
Obviously with the changes this is no longer possible but I want to be able to do this again using the new address but in JQuery unless someone can suggest either a tutorial or a piece of code or even a link to a topic where I could get my answer. I'm also open to using PHP as this is what I used at one point with searching Facebook's timeline and you can get an access token using $.get() for Facebook so surely it would be the same with Twitter too?
Any advice/code is welcome.
Thanks!
the search API needs authorization now. I'd say that, first off, you need to call the https url not http.
With Abhramam William's library you'd do something like the following, after having received your app's bearer token:
$your_tweets = $connection->get("https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json?q=from:grey_mina&result_type=recent&count=5");
I've made my own "blog-style" site, without using WordPress or anything of the sort. I'm looking for a way to automatically post a certain portion of the article to the Facebook Wall of the Facebook Page I run for the website. Is there an easy way to do this? I'm using PHP for post submission.
This is possible using the Facebook API. You can probably find PHP libraries that cover much of the functionality but it would still be a good idea to get your head around the Facebook API so that you understand how things work. See http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/
I've seen there is some other discussion about this, however, none of the other threads I've read have targetted my situation.
For one, I do not need to get any Tweets from Twitter. I only need to send to Twitter.
For another, I don't need to have multiple accounts or different Twitter users. I can already ensure the page will only be seen by the one authorized user, so I can save any necessary login information in one configuration file and be done.
I am only posting occasionally from one web site, to one Twitter feed, and only one user will be logged onto the the web site that will send the tweet.
I am hoping to find a simple tutorial or script that can allow me to cut to the bare bones and just send tweets to my Twitter account.
However, all the tutorials and scripts I've seen so far have been too elaborate, handling logins, sessions, authenticating multiple users, and so on.
Is there any way I can get simple oAuth PHP code to accomplish what I'm describing?
This would help
http://code.google.com/p/dabr/source/browse/trunk/common/twitter.php
http://code.google.com/p/dabr/source/browse/trunk/common/OAuth.php
This should help or at least point you in the right direction.
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/twitter-libraries#php
You can use ZF component
get accessToken only once, keep it as serialized string anywhere
http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.service.twitter.html
I wanted to find out how to login to another site via PHP... I don't know the proper term for it, but basically, I want a user to be able to enter their login information for another website on mine, and interact with it through mine.Is there any tutorial?
thanks
There are few ways to do the job (actually, you just need to send POST data to the other site).
You can use :
curl (example: http://davidwalsh.name/execute-http-post-php-curl),
stream context (example: http://php.net/manual/en/function.stream-context-create.php),
or directly with sockets (example: http://www.jonasjohn.de/snippets/php/post-request.htm).
curl will do that PHP, cURL post to login to WordPress
but you will need that installed on the server which is sometimes not an option. There is however loads of scripts that can do the same thing as curl without the curl libs installed, eg: cakephp's HttpSocket class
as already stated, Curl will do that.
But you can also check out this PHP Class that makes everything easier and gives you a lot of automation out of the Box
Including Prefilling of CSRF Token, finding of all input fields, retrieving of details from the designated site. etc
the class can be found Here. Crawl Engine