Apple introduced Testflight as a way for developers to beta test apps quickly and efficiently. While the intention is well, signing up users for the open beta is not completely automatic. Currently, the developer has to:
obtain tester's email,
add email to a list of beta testers on iTunesConnect, and
send out an invitation email.
This is obviously very cumbersome because it requires the developer to do these things by hand. Even if we keep a Google Doc and add all the emails every day, the delay between a user putting the email on the doc and getting that invitation may cause the tester to become disinterested.
The question is, has anyone figured out a way to automate the process? Ideally, as soon as the user inputs an email on a web form, or by some other means, a script will add that to the list and send out an invitation on the fly. Is there some kind of set up to handle this without manual labour?
Not sure this is a development question but you can have a look at https://github.com/fastlane/boarding
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Nicolas
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I've built a CRM webapp with Django for a specific lead heavy industry. It's working for both gmail and outlook users. Through MsGraph and Google API, the user is able to give authorization via Oath2 to the app to access their inboxes. The app then grabs and parses emails from various sources.
Each lead source always sends the lead emails with same subject. This makes the lead emails easy to identify from the users inbox. Unfortunately, the subject of EVERY email that comes in has to be searched to find the desired lead emails. Unfortunately, Identifying by sender isn't an option, and wouldn't change the issue. Each email would still have to be searched.
I have a couple of colleagues beta testing right now.
As I think about taking on new users that may be outside of my colleagues, I am starting to think the webapps unrestricted access to a user's inbox via the available scopes isn't the best approach for trying to attract new users. I would be suspicious of any 3rd party program wanting to access all of my emails, even if just searching for specific emails.
I use Google's watch() and MsGraphs subscriptions to do this while the user is offline. It doesn't appear that Google or Microsoft allow for any kind of message change filter based on what's in the subject line.
Are there any methods that I have not been able to find in either Google API or MsGraph documentation that would limit access to only the emails that meet the subject search criteria?
Would this even pass either of their security checks to get 'Published Status.'
Reading through the Google docs, it looks like you can set authorization scopes that limit access to just labels and basic settings. This should allow you to filter messages by subject and apply labels to those filters.
Of course, the subject filtering doesn't have anything to do with authorization. But fine tuning the authorization is better than allowing write access to an entire mailbox.
I would say in general, the more open the permissions are, the less likely you are to get approved. Google wants you to only have access to what you need to achieve the product's purpose, nothing more.
https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/auth/scopes
There definitely isn't a way to set custom permissions based on subject. In fact, I don't know many APIs in general that allow you to define custom permissions that granularly.
That said, it doesn't seem like you even need read access to message headers, let alone message body content, to achieve what you want to do in Gmail.
I assume Microsoft has similar scoping, but I'm not sure.
I am working on a local application that needs to retrieve data from user's Facebook profile. As long as I can see, by default I can only get name, picture and age range, but I need many others information like education, location, likes and so on. I tried to submit approval for these items, but Facebook won't set my submission because I don't have a Privacy Policy URL added. I don't know what Privacy Policy URL to add because I'm working on localhost.
Please help me figure it out and excuse me if my question is wrong, it's the first time when I work with fb api. Also, if there is another way to retrieve this items, I would be more than happy to hear about it.
Have a look at
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/review/login#do-you-need-review
It's saying that
in order to help you craft your Facebook Login experience, your app's developers will be able to see, and grant, any permission without requiring review by Facebook.
and
Also, if you're the developer of an app and are the only person using it, then your app doesn't need to go through review. Since you're the developer, all app capabilities should be available. You will still need to take your app out of developer mode, but you should be able to do that without going through review.
So, to be able to develop your app and request extended permissions, you don't need to pass your app to review, as long as you test with an app admin/developer/tester.
I made a Django online-store site and I need to include paypal checkout system for the cart, but solutions I found online either just for one item only(Buy Now buttons) or something like django-paypal-cart, which is not well-documented and I can't figure out how to make it to the checkout.
Please, give me some hint, maybe good article about how to make your cart items go to the checkout, anything will be highly appreciated, I don't know what else to google now
There are numerous options for tying PayPal into your website or app. Depending on exactly what you're doing or how good you are with web service API's you may choose one or another.
If you want to keep things simple, you can stick with Payments Standard. This is basically what you're referring to about the one item only buy now button, but you can use the cart upload command method to build a form that includes multiple items and pass it all over to PayPal at once.
If you prefer web service API's I'd recommend using Express Checkout. This consists of SetExpressCheckout, GetExpressCheckoutDetails, and DoExpressCheckoutPayment. Read through that general EC documentation to get familiar with the calls and how it all flows.
Another thing I would highly recommend utilizing is Instant Payment Notification (IPN). This is a feature where PayPal will POST transaction data to a listener script that you have sitting on your server any time a transaction occurs on your PayPal account. This includes payments, refunds, disputes, cleared payments that were pending, etc. This allows you to automate tasks like updating your database, sending out custom email notifications, hitting 3rd party web services, etc. and it happens in real-time, so it's very powerful.
Regarding the django-email-login app, how do i get it not to require email verification by the user? I find that this extra activity that the user has to go through by logging into their email account to validate their email could reduce signups.
I assume you are referring to this django-email-login: https://bitbucket.org/jokull/django-email-login/src, and not my django-email-login: https://bitbucket.org/tino/django-email-login/overview, (sorry for the confusion, I hadn't seen his repo until I bumped into this question and started searching) as I don't do any signup.
However I would like to advice you that you might be more likely to get an answer when you post your question as an issue on bitbucket, as there people that use the app will actually see it.
From a quick look at the code I would say you need to write your own RegistrationBackend, one that doesn't need validation. The backend used in jokull's code is actually the one from django-registration, so you should take that as an example.
I recently put a django project of mine into its beta stages and would really like to integrate more with social media, particularly facebook.
Now there are so many facebook integrations out there... I don't know where to start but, I'll tell you what I am after.
My sites publishes content with photos and also user related data (which site doesn't)
on each individual page I already have a facebook like button that basically has the absolute url of that page
so for instance:
http://my-site.com/url-1
http://my-site.com/url-345345
http://my-site.com/url-456456456
When a user likes this particular url I would like them to become a Fan on my facebook site/page as well.
I also added the FB opengraph tool which is a bit more informative once a user likes it. But it still does not publish any statistics to my page.
Can someone give me a bit of an understanding on what the best option is for this type of integration?
As a security option for the user, Facebook has never allowed third party access to "become a fan."
If you want to record locally when someone presses the "Like" button, you'll have to implement it locally (copy the presentation, and query Facebook yourself), so you can intercept the event. I've done that; it's not too hard.
I suggest you review the Connect Terms of Service to see what it is you're allowed to do: http://developers.facebook.com/policy/