I am interested in retrieving a Facebook group members' Bio information.
I have created an app where I have requested permission of about user_about_me and the app is under review for submission.
I have coded for the app in JSP but it can only select name, gender, last_name, first_name only. It is not selecting the Bio information.
I face the same problem even in the graph API explorer, when I use
{group_ID}/members
I can retrieve list of all group members. But I can not see more details than the following:
"data": [
{
"name": "name",
"administrator": false,
"id": "USER ID"
},
..
When I click on the ID (or enter the ID in the explorer), I can only get the following:
{
"id": "member_ID",
"first_name": "firstname",
"last_name": "lastname",
"link": "https://www.facebook.com/app_scoped_user_id/...",
"name": "name ",
"updated_time": "2015-02-07T10:02:58+0000"
}
This is not showing the Bio information.
when I enter the following:
{member_ID}?fields=bio
I just get
{
"id": "10153223503039309"
}
I will appreciate if someone please identify me the problem. I believe this problem will also solve my code problem, where at the moment I am unable to retrieve the group member's Bio information too.
Is it possible that the problem will be resolved after the app's acceptance, which is under review?
Thanks you very much.
Syed
You can´t just grab more information from the user just because he is a member of some group. You would have to let him authorize your App with the correct permissions in order to get more data.
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I am using Facebook Graph v7.0 to access Instagram data.
I can get comments made on instagram media using the following query:
Request:
https://graph.facebook.com/v7.0/18132613492054980?fields=id,ig_id,caption,timestamp,owner,username,media_type,permalink,children,comments.limit(100){hidden,id,like_count,media,text,timestamp,user,username},comments_count&access_token
Response:
{
"id": "18132613492054980",
"ig_id": "2263043983231761272",
"caption": "Sprite",
"timestamp": "2020-03-12T06:51:27+0000",
"owner": {
"id": "17841430463493290"
},
"username": "jobyjohn123456",
"media_type": "IMAGE",
"permalink": "https://www.instagram.com/p/B9n8oM7nTt4/",
"comments": {
"data": [
{
"hidden": false,
"id": "18132938077057326",
"like_count": 0,
"media": {
"id": "18132613492054980"
},
"text": "Nice sprite \u0040yziaf__07",
"timestamp": "2020-03-12T06:52:27+0000",
"username": "zimba_birbal"
}
]
},
"comments_count": 2
}
In the response, I do not get the User Id of user who commented. It just includes the username of the commenter.
Though, I pass user in the query, the result does not include it.
Do I need any special permission to get user id of the user who commented in the comment response?
There is Facebook API "business discovery" to get the user details of other Instagram User.
API request:
https://graph.facebook.com/178430463490?fields=business_discovery.username(user_name_you_wantto_get_its_IgUserId){followers_count,media_count,username,ig_id}
Response:
We can pass the user name in that API request, then we will get the Instagram User Id.
The documentation says it has one limitation, this will not work for "age-gated Instagram Business IG Users" but I do not exactly know what it means. When I tested for both older Instagram account and new Instagram account (just recently created account) and this API is returning data for both.
When I tested for private Instagram account, it did not work so it seems this api works only for business account.
If that api does not work, there is one workaround. The following request help to get User Id using its username but I have not found any API documentation regarding this API. It looks like this is not a standard API and moreover it does not need any token.
https://www.instagram.com/user_name_you_wantto_get_its_IgUserId/?__a=1
What is the proper way to identify if the author of a post is a user or a page?
v2.8/OrangeESP/feed?fields=id,from{id,name,link}
"data": [
{
"id": "118067454874491_1584993008181921",
"from": {
"id": "1112315252115029",
"name": "Clara Barranquero",
"link": "https://www.facebook.com/app_scoped_user_id/1112315252115029/"
}
},
I currently use the "from.link" for that and if it is of form
https://www.facebook.com/app_scoped_user_id// then is a User
if it's of from
https://www.facebook.com/ then it is a Page
In v2.4 I could have included from{category} in the response and if that was not empty it meant the author is a Page.
Include a field that´s only available in the Page or User table:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/page/
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/user/
Checking for app_scoped_user_id in the link field is not a bad idea though.
I work on a web application using AngularJS for the frontend and the backend for Symfony2. I want to make a web service so I can have a one page app. I am wondering about how I should handle the data exchange between the two layers.
Consider this use case:
A user wants to create a project in the application and must specify whether it be as a customer or supplier in that project. The creator of the project gives the project a name and a description. Then he enters the email address of the contact person (who will be the customer or supplier in the project depending on the choice of the user who created the project). When creating the project the system checks whether the contact person is already registered otherwise it sends an invitation to join the application and waits. It is not necessary to invite the contact person at the creation of a project that can be done later.
I imagine the API is as follows:
POST http://app.com/api/projects
Request:
{
"name": "My Project"
"descrption": "My Project'description"
"vendor": {
"user_id": 3245
}
"client": "myclient#email.com"
}
Response:
{
"name": "My Project"
"description": "My Project'description"
"vendor": {
"user_id": 3245,
"name": "John Doe"
}
"client": {
"user_id": 2754,
"name": "Peter Doe"
}
"creator": {
"user_id": 3245,
"name": "John Doe"
}
}
So we can see that the type of data exchanged in the creation of a project differs.
Can I link directly to my model application (after validation of course)?
How should I go about updating a project?
Is it better to create Transfer Objects and managed into my business logic and a TransfertObject for input and one for output?
I want to see which users can see a particular album. I use the following query to get my albums and their privacy settings:
SELECT id,allow,deny,description,friends,value FROM privacy WHERE id IN
(SELECT object_id FROM album WHERE owner=me())
and it returns something like this for each album:
{
"id": 212102865605678,
"allow": "211824028961234,212367312342178",
"deny": null,
"description": "John Doe, Work People",
"friends": "SOME_FRIENDS",
"value": "CUSTOM"
}
The second ID in the allow column is right. That's the ID for the 'Work People' friendlist.
But the other ID isn't really the ID of 'John Doe'.
If I use the FB.api from javascript using 'me/friends' I get this:
{
"name": "John Doe",
"id": "100005318169867"
}
Same name, but different ID. I'm quite certain that they're the same user (I don't have many friends). Is this the difference between some internal database ID and external ID?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Recently me/feed started to include entries sent by current user to groups.
The id field is invalid for those entries and simply returns "false".
Changing the first part of the id to the one mentioned in "to" gives a valid entry.
It could be a good workaround except there is no way to immediately know which posts are normal and which posts are to Groups.
I did notice that on posts to groups there is an extra field 'version' that is not documented. Anyone knows what this field means?
Example entry:
...
"id": "1188060277_343671429042688",
"from": {
"name": "My Name",
"id": "1188060277"
},
"to": {
"data": [
{
"version": 1,
"name": "Group Name",
"id": "194744830602016"
}
]
},
...
Hope this helps :)
groups
The Groups that the user belongs to.
user_groups or friends_groups.
An array of objects containing the version(old-0 or new Group-1), name, id, administrator (if user is the administrator of the Group) and bookmark_order(at what place in the list of group bookmarks on the homepage, the group shows up for the user).
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/user/