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For some reason the /discover endpoint doesn't return the "Buffalo Exchange" place that's at my specified coordinates, but only returns 2 localities that are much further away. This is the query that I'm using: https://discover.search.hereapi.com/v1/discover?at=34.003975%2C-118.484823&q=Buffalo&limit=20&apiKey=<insert API KEY>. These are the results I currently receive:
{
"items": [
{
"title": "Buffalo, NY, United States",
"id": "here:cm:namedplace:21018816",
"resultType": "locality",
"localityType": "city",
"address": {
"label": "Buffalo, NY, United States",
"countryCode": "USA",
"countryName": "United States",
"stateCode": "NY",
"state": "New York",
"county": "Erie",
"city": "Buffalo",
"postalCode": "14202"
},
"position": {
"lat": 42.88544,
"lng": -78.87846
},
"distance": 3551940,
"mapView": {
"west": -78.9168,
"south": 42.82603,
"east": -78.79492,
"north": 42.96651
}
},
{
"title": "Buffalo City, Eastern Cape, South Africa",
"id": "here:cm:namedplace:23402337",
"resultType": "locality",
"localityType": "city",
"address": {
"label": "Buffalo City, Eastern Cape, South Africa",
"countryCode": "ZAF",
"countryName": "South Africa",
"state": "Eastern Cape",
"county": "Buffalo City",
"city": "Buffalo City",
"postalCode": "5201"
},
"position": {
"lat": -33.0148,
"lng": 27.9038
},
"distance": 16910944,
"mapView": {
"west": 27.15745,
"south": -33.28749,
"east": 28.08053,
"north": -32.674
}
}
]
}
You can see that for both places the resultType is "locality".
Now compare that to the first result of a similar query that searches for the term "Exchange" instead of "Buffalo". All other query params are the same. This is the URL: https://discover.search.hereapi.com/v1/discover?at=34.003975%2C-118.484823&q=Exchange&limit=20&apiKey=<insert API KEY>, and this is how the results begin (not shown fully because there are many results):
{
"items": [
{
"title": "Buffalo Exchange",
"id": "here:pds:place:8403fv6k-b15f290ec4f409deea99318f7388bbd6",
"resultType": "place",
"address": {
"label": "Buffalo Exchange, 2449 Main St, Santa Monica, CA 90405, United States",
"countryCode": "USA",
"countryName": "United States",
"stateCode": "CA",
"state": "California",
"county": "Los Angeles",
"city": "Santa Monica",
"district": "City of Santa Monica",
"street": "Main St",
"postalCode": "90405",
"houseNumber": "2449"
},
"position": {
"lat": 34.00342,
"lng": -118.48483
},
"access": [
{
"lat": 34.00331,
"lng": -118.48493
}
],
"distance": 61,
"categories": [
{
"id": "600-6800-0090",
"name": "Women's Apparel",
"primary": true
},
{
"id": "600-6800-0000",
"name": "Clothing & Accessories"
},
{
"id": "600-6800-0089",
"name": "Men's Apparel"
},
{
"id": "600-6900-0251",
"name": "Used/Second-hand Merchandise Stores"
}
],
"references": [
{
"supplier": {
"id": "core"
},
"id": "1211447153"
},
{
"supplier": {
"id": "yelp"
},
"id": "5PzeN6hGLBPmJpCJ2ZmfCQ"
}
],
"contacts": [
{
"phone": [
{
"value": "+13103147300"
},
{
"value": "+13103924301",
"categories": [
{
"id": "600-6800-0000"
}
]
}
],
"fax": [
{
"value": "(520) 622-7015",
"categories": [
{
"id": "600-6800-0000"
}
]
}
],
"www": [
{
"value": "http://www.buffaloexchange.com",
"categories": [
{
"id": "600-6800-0000"
},
{
"id": "600-6900-0251"
}
]
}
],
"email": [
{
"value": "contact#bufex.com",
"categories": [
{
"id": "600-6800-0000"
}
]
}
]
}
],
"openingHours": [
{
"categories": [
{
"id": "600-6800-0000"
}
],
"text": [
"Mon-Sun: 11:00 - 20:00"
],
"isOpen": false,
"structured": [
{
"start": "T110000",
"duration": "PT09H00M",
"recurrence": "FREQ:DAILY;BYDAY:MO,TU,WE,TH,FR,SA,SU"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"id": "600-6800-0090"
},
{
"id": "600-6900-0251"
}
],
"text": [
"Mon-Sat: 11:00 - 20:00",
"Sun: 11:00 - 19:00"
],
"isOpen": false,
"structured": [
{
"start": "T110000",
"duration": "PT09H00M",
"recurrence": "FREQ:DAILY;BYDAY:MO,TU,WE,TH,FR,SA"
},
{
"start": "T110000",
"duration": "PT08H00M",
"recurrence": "FREQ:DAILY;BYDAY:SU"
}
]
}
]
},
...
}
You can see that the first result has the name "Buffalo Exchange" and the "resultType" is "place". This is the result I want. The question is why does this result fail to show up when the search query is "Buffalo"? Of course with the /discover endpoint I can't specify the category IDs I want to search, that's only available via the /browse endpoint. But with the /browse endpoint I can't specify a specific search term like "Buffalo" or "Exchange".
Update: this problem also happens with the "Bison" query in Alberta, Canada. The query for this is https://discover.search.hereapi.com/v1/discover?at=56.745531%2C-111.351341&q=Exchange&limit=20&apiKey=<insert API KEY>. This query yields only 10 results, and only 4 of them have resultType of "place".
We recommend application developers to use both Autosuggest and Discover, you get the nearby Buffalo Exchange because Autosuggest considers that the query is incomplete. Note that Discover considers the query to be complete.
As HERE Geocoding and Search is meant to provide relevant responses to user queries.
Geocoding Search Api (Autosuggest): https://developer.here.com/documentation/geocoding-search-api/dev_guide/topics/endpoint-autosuggest-brief.html
Geocoding Search Api (Discover): https://developer.here.com/documentation/geocoding-search-api/dev_guide/topics/endpoint-discover-brief.html
The above-mentioned user guide can help modify the query for accurate results.
I have tried to bulk add a contact using API Try editor of Google https://developers.google.com/people/api/rest/v1/people/batchCreateContacts
{
"contacts": [
{
"contactPerson": {
"addresses": [
{
"formattedValue": "formattedValue",
"type": "type",
"poBox": "poBox",
"streetAddress": "streetAddress",
"extendedAddress": "extendedAddress",
"region": "region",
"postalCode": "postalCode",
"country": "country",
"countryCode": "countryCode"
},
{
"formattedValue": "formattedValue",
"type": "type",
"poBox": "poBox",
"streetAddress": "streetAddress",
"extendedAddress": "extendedAddress",
"city": "city",
"region": "region",
"postalCode": "postalCode",
"country": "country",
"countryCode": "countryCode"
}
],
"biographies": [
{
"value": "biographies-value",
"contentType": "TEXT_PLAIN"
}
],
"birthdays": [
{
"date": {
"year": 1988,
"month": 9,
"day": 22
},
"text": "22/09/1988"
}
],
"calendarUrls": [
{
"url": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ogw/ADea4I4kLm9hsAYNpD_7v-7wXki3joED-eg2ZHcGmp31",
"type": "calendarUrls-type"
}
],
"clientData": [
{
"key": "clientData-key",
"value": "clientData-value"
}
],
"emailAddresses": [
{
"value": "emailAddresses-value",
"type": "emailAddresses-type",
"displayName": "emailAddresses-displayName"
}
],
"events": [
{
"date": {
"year": 1988,
"month": 9,
"day": 22
},
"type": "events-type"
},
{
"date": {
"year": 1988,
"month": 9,
"day": 22
},
"type": "events-type"
},
{
"date": {
"year": 2019,
"month": 12,
"day": 7
},
"type": "marriage"
}
],
"externalIds": [
{
"value": "externalIds-value",
"type": "externalIds-type"
}
],
"fileAses": [
{
"value": "fileAses-value"
}
],
"genders": [
{
"value": "male",
"addressMeAs": "her"
}
],
"imClients": [
{
"username": "imClients-username1",
"type": "imClients-typeA",
"protocol": "imClients-protocol1"
},
{
"username": "imClients-username2",
"type": "imClients-typeA",
"protocol": "imClients-protocol2"
},
{
"username": "imClients-username3",
"type": "imClients-typeB",
"protocol": "imClients-protocol3"
}
],
"interests": [
{
"value": "interests-value"
}
],
"locales": [
{
"value": "locales-value"
}
],
"locations": [
{
"value": "locations-value1",
"type": "desk",
"current": true,
"buildingId": "locations-buildingId",
"floor": "locations-floor",
"floorSection": "buildingId-floorSection",
"deskCode": "locations-deskCode"
},
{
"value": "locations-value2",
"type": "desk",
"current": true,
"buildingId": "locations-buildingId",
"floor": "locations-floor",
"floorSection": "buildingId-floorSection",
"deskCode": "locations-deskCode"
}
],
"memberships": [
{
"contactGroupMembership": {
"contactGroupResourceName": "contactGroups/3616ed318c1125e3"
}
}
],
"miscKeywords": [
{
"value": "SENSITIVITY1",
"type": "OUTLOOK_SENSITIVITY"
},
{
"value": "SENSITIVITY2",
"type": "OUTLOOK_SENSITIVITY"
},
{
"value": "OUTLOOK_SUBJECT",
"type": "OUTLOOK_SUBJECT"
},
{
"value": "OUTLOOK_BILLING_INFORMATION",
"type": "OUTLOOK_BILLING_INFORMATION"
},
{
"value": "OUTLOOK_DIRECTORY_SERVER",
"type": "OUTLOOK_DIRECTORY_SERVER"
},
{
"value": "OUTLOOK_KEYWORD",
"type": "OUTLOOK_KEYWORD"
},
{
"value": "OUTLOOK_MILEAGE",
"type": "OUTLOOK_MILEAGE"
},
{
"value": "OUTLOOK_PRIORITY",
"type": "OUTLOOK_PRIORITY"
},
{
"value": "OUTLOOK_SUBJECT",
"type": "OUTLOOK_SUBJECT"
},
{
"value": "OUTLOOK_USER1-value",
"type": "OUTLOOK_USER"
},
{
"value": "OUTLOOK_USER2-value",
"type": "OUTLOOK_USER"
},
{
"value": "HOME",
"type": "HOME"
},
{
"value": "WORK",
"type": "WORK"
},
{
"value": "OTHER",
"type": "OTHER"
}
],
"names": [
{
"unstructuredName": "unstructuredName",
"familyName": "MrTest",
"givenName": "givenName",
"middleName": "middleName",
"honorificPrefix": "honorificPrefix",
"honorificSuffix": "honorificSuffix",
"phoneticFullName": "phoneticFullName",
"phoneticFamilyName": "phoneticFamilyName",
"phoneticGivenName": "phoneticGivenName",
"phoneticMiddleName": "phoneticMiddleName",
"phoneticHonorificPrefix": "phoneticHonorificPrefix",
"phoneticHonorificSuffix": "phoneticHonorificSuffix"
}
],
"nicknames": [
{
"value": "nicknames-value-alternate-name",
"type": "ALTERNATE_NAME"
},
{
"value": "nicknames-value-default",
"type": "DEFAULT"
}
],
"occupations": [
{
"value": "occupations-value"
}
],
"organizations": [
{
"type": "organizations-type",
"startDate": {
"year": 1988,
"month": 9,
"day": 22
},
"endDate": {
"year": 1988,
"month": 9,
"day": 22
},
"current": true,
"name": "organizations-name",
"phoneticName": "organizations-phoneticName",
"department": "organizations-department",
"title": "organizations-title",
"jobDescription": "organizations-jobDescription",
"symbol": "organizations-symbol",
"domain": "organizations-domain",
"location": "organizations-location"
}
],
"phoneNumbers": [
{
"value": "phoneNumbers-value",
"type": "phoneNumbers-type"
}
],
"relations": [
{
"person": "relations-person",
"type": "relations-type"
}
],
"sipAddresses": [
{
"value": "sipAddresses-value",
"type": "sipAddresses-type"
}
],
"urls": [
{
"value": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ogw/ADea4I4kLm9hsAYNpD_7v-7wXki3joED-eg2ZHcGmp31",
"type": "urls-type"
}
],
"userDefined": [
{
"key": "userDefined-key",
"value": "userDefined-value"
}
]
}
}
],
"readMask": "emailAddresses,phoneNumbers,addresses,birthdays,biographies,calendarUrls,clientData,coverPhotos,events,externalIds,genders,imClients,interests,locales,locations,memberships,miscKeywords,names,nicknames,occupations,organizations,phoneNumbers,photos,relations,sipAddresses,skills,urls,userDefined"
}
I get the error as
{
"error": {
"code": 500,
"message": "Internal error encountered.",
"status": "INTERNAL"
}
}
Am I missing something?
It looks like the 500 Internal Error message you are receiving is due to the fact that you are using the calendarUrls field in the request.
This might in fact be a bug so I have taken the opportunity to file a report on Google's Issue Tracker here.
I suggest you star the issue as all the updates will be posted there.
In Google People - people.connections.list and other GET APIs, the Date object of Birthday field is not returned for some Contacts. Have authenticated with the full People scope [https://www.googleapis.com/auth/contacts].
We also do not know the format of the "text" field to parse that, as the param can have any random string.
How to parse the birthday of a user? When will the Date object not be returned?
Sample Request
https://people.googleapis.com/v1/people/me/connections?pageSize=100&requestSyncToken=true&personFields=birthdays
Sample response Birthdays
{
"birthdays": [
{
"metadata": {
"source": {
"id": "3ebd95668aeed9d7",
"type": "CONTACT"
},
"primary": true
},
"text": "2000-07-24"
}
],
"resourceName": "people/c4520933868599957975",
"etag": "<etag>"
},
{
"birthdays": [
{
"metadata": {
"source": {
"id": "5f5712ce0861c5b0",
"type": "CONTACT"
},
"primary": true
},
"text": "1880-03-11"
}
],
"resourceName": "people/c6869980432690169264",
"etag": "<etag>"
},
{
"birthdays": [
{
"date": {
"month": 1,
"year": 1990,
"day": 26
},
"metadata": {
"source": {
"id": "a16dde58e814a36",
"type": "CONTACT"
},
"primary": true
},
"text": "01/26/1990"
}
],
"resourceName": "people/c727012367875000886",
"etag": "<etag>"
},
{
"birthdays": [
{
"date": {
"month": 1,
"year": 1998,
"day": 1
},
"metadata": {
"source": {
"id": "f350f568dd11db1",
"type": "CONTACT"
},
"primary": true
},
"text": "Jan 1, 1998"
}
],
"resourceName": "people/c1095798948755479985",
"etag": "<etag>"
},
{
"birthdays": [
{
"metadata": {
"source": {
"id": "3652e00f0d28c9f4",
"type": "CONTACT"
},
"primary": true
},
"text": "random string accept"
}
],
"resourceName": "people/c3914437381388290548",
"etag": "<etag>"
}
]
The birthday field, can take both Date or text, and are not guaranteed to be the same.
I need to get friends' albums with photos. Do that with batch query (coz https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/).
[
{ "method":"GET",
"name":"get-friends",
"relative_url":"me/friends?fields=id,name",
"omit_response_on_success": false
},
{
"method":"GET",
"name":"get-albums",
"relative_url":"{result=get-friends:$.data.*.id}/albums",
"omit_response_on_success": false
},
{
"method":"GET",
"name":"get-photos",
"relative_url":"{result=get-albums:$.data.*.id}/photos"
}
]
But in response i got error.This is response:
[
{
"code": 200,
"body": "{
"data": [
{
"id": "xxxx",
"name": "Name Lastname"
},{
"id": "xxxx",
"name": "Name2 Lastname"
}
],
"paging": {
"next": "https://graph.facebook.com/v2.4/xxx/friends?fields=id,name&format=json&access_token=xxx&limit=25&offset=25&__after_id=enc_xxx"
},
"summary": {
"total_count": 4
}
}"
},
{
"code": 200,
"body": "{
"data": [
{
"name": "1 Photos",
"created_time": "2012-11-22T04:22:46+0000",
"id": "xxx"
},
{
"name": "2 Pictures",
"created_time": "2010-09-12T02:48:42+0000",
"id": "xxx"
},
{
"name": "3 Personal",
"created_time": "2007-10-25T15:59:06+0000",
"id": "xxx"
}
],
"paging": {
"cursors": {
"after": "NTc0NyQxMzkwOQ==",
"before": "MTAxNTuyNjIzMzQwMDg5MTA="
}
}
}"
},
{
"code": 404,
"body": "{
"error": {
"message": "(#803) Some of the aliases you requested do not exist: xxx,xxx,xxx",
"type": "OAuthException",
"code": 803
}
}"
}
]
Please tell me where is my mistake or tell me another way.
You can´t get access to albums of friends, all friend permissions have been removed with v2.0 of the Graph API: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/changelog#v2_0
You can only get access to albums of users who authorized your App (with user_photos, of course).
My application creates posts on user's wall, but it's marked as link.
I see that other applications doing same thing but for some reason facebook don't mark their posts as links. Tried to find the difference between them and me in graph api explorer, and the only difference is status_type attribute (this is not even documented). Mine set to "shared_story" and in other applications is "app_created_story". Tried to set it manualy but facebook still use shared_story even if I set it to app_created_story
Data from graph api explorer (first is my application)
[{
"id": "100001302536317_168939309896943",
"from": {
"name": "Андрей Реаскович",
"id": "100001302536317"
},
"story": "Андрей Реаскович shared a link.",
"story_tags": {
"0": [
{
"id": "100001302536317",
"name": "Андрей Реаскович",
"offset": 0,
"length": 16,
"type": "user"
}
]
},
"picture": "http://external.ak.fbcdn.net/safe_image.php?d=AQBcrRQnipKHB6g6&w=90&h=90&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.jackpotrush.com%2Fimages%2Fviral%2Fgames%2Fjoker_jester.png",
"link": "http://apps.facebook.com/jackrush/?ref=bonus-game",
"name": "I Won Big on a Bonus Round at Jackpot Rush!",
"caption": " ",
"description": "I Just Won 200 Coins at a Jackpot Rush Bonus Round and it Feels Amazing!",
"icon": "http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/v2/yD/r/aS8ecmYRys0.gif",
"actions": [
{
"name": "Comment",
"link": "http://www.facebook.com/100001302536317/posts/168939309896943"
},
{
"name": "Like",
"link": "http://www.facebook.com/100001302536317/posts/168939309896943"
}
],
"privacy": {
"description": "Only Me",
"value": "SELF"
},
"type": "link",
"status_type": "shared_story",
"application": {
"name": "Jackrush Development",
"namespace": "jackrush",
"id": "434595133235542"
},
"created_time": "2012-11-12T08:48:18+0000",
"updated_time": "2012-11-12T08:48:18+0000",
"comments": {
"count": 0
}
},
{
"id": "100001302536317_420171444702936",
"from": {
"name": "Андрей Реаскович",
"id": "100001302536317"
},
"picture": "http://platform.ak.fbcdn.net/www/app_full_proxy.php?app=242829452408559&v=1&size=z&cksum=cd0fa7a15202d05700bf1464fd989d42&src=http%3A%2F%2Fc.cdn.blueshellgames.com%2Fs%2F%3Aac05b878%2Fmonte%2Fi%2Ffeed_story_image-logo_black.png",
"link": "http://apps.facebook.com/luckyslotsgame/?action=shareLevelUpReward&posterID=fb%3A100001302536317&k_utag=df3f4636aabab65e&levelUpToken=6553%3AsVFCJmW43zW_Nni9vBB9xg%3D%3D&level=4&refID=fb%3A100001302536317&utm_medium=viral&utm_source=levelUp",
"name": "First 5 Clickers get 150 Free Coins!",
"caption": "Андрей just reached level 4 and is giving away 150 Free Coins to celebrate!",
"description": "Play the best slots on Facebook! Get free chips daily! Unlock new slot machines and new bonus games! Don't miss out, play now!",
"icon": "http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc7/v85006/51/242829452408559/app_2_242829452408559_9481.gif",
"actions": [
{
"name": "Comment",
"link": "http://www.facebook.com/100001302536317/posts/420171444702936"
},
{
"name": "Like",
"link": "http://www.facebook.com/100001302536317/posts/420171444702936"
},
{
"name": "Claim BONUS Coins",
"link": "http://apps.facebook.com/luckyslotsgame/?action=shareLevelUpReward&posterID=fb%3A100001302536317&k_utag=df3f4636aabab65e&levelUpToken=6553%3AsVFCJmW43zW_Nni9vBB9xg%3D%3D&level=4&refID=fb%3A100001302536317&utm_medium=viral&utm_source=levelUp"
}
],
"privacy": {
"description": "Public",
"value": "EVERYONE"
},
"type": "link",
"status_type": "app_created_story",
"application": {
"name": "Lucky Slots",
"namespace": "luckyslotsgame",
"id": "242829452408559"
},
"created_time": "2012-11-12T08:13:25+0000",
"updated_time": "2012-11-12T08:13:25+0000",
"comments": {
"count": 0
}
}]