i have post created calling graph api
https://graph.facebook.com/me/feed/?access_token=<token>
it returns somthing like:
{"id":"<UID>_<POST_ID>"}
now i want to hide this post by api call
curl -F "is_hidden=true" "https://graph.facebook.com/<POST_ID>?access_token=<token>
but i am geting this response:
{"error":{"message":"(#100) The parameter reorder_pids is required", "type": "OAuthException", "code":100}}
is here somebody who using api for this? (hiding post)
if yes, is it working for you? ;)
I found a way to hide the post from facebook page.
curl -F "timeline_visibility=hidden" "https://graph.facebook.com/<POST_ID>/?access_token=<page_token>
...and it return true.
It only works when the post is published by a non-admin user.
Is it actually possible to update a post's privacy after the fact like that?
I'm not sure.
You can set the privacy field on the initial create though.
privacy={'value':'SELF'}
See
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/post/
and
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/privacy-parameter/
Related
I'm trying to download every comment on a public facebook post (it's one of those "can you do this basic algebra problem" posts - I want to see what percent of the comments get it right).
The Graph API Reference shows that I should be able to just GET graph.facebook.com/v2.5/{object-id}/comments.
I believe the object-id of this post is {user-id}_{post-id}, where post-id is the id in the url. So given this url:
https://www.facebook.com/beth.mansfield.9/posts/10207885721596563
The user-id of facebook.com/beth.mansfield.9 is 1101752663 (from findmyfbid.com), and the post-id is 10207885721596563 (from the url), which makes the object-id="1101752663_10207885721596563".
When I try graph.facebook.com/v2.5/1101752663_10207885721596563/comments in the Graph API Explorer, though, I get:
{
"data": [
]
}
What am I doing wrong? Is there another way to get the comments? There are close to a million so loading them all in the browser and scraping with javascript would be unfeasible.
That is a user profile. You can only get data of a user profile if that specific user authorized your App. In that case, you would need to authorize with the user_posts permission. Just because it is public, does not mean you can get the data - that would only work for Pages.
I am playing FB graph API explorer which is a fantastic tool to test graph API. But I met a weird case.
First of all, I have a access token with all permissions to access myself account.
Here is my query:
me?fields=id,name,address
But I only got:
{
"id": "alongnumber",
"name": "stringname"
}
Where is "address" returned?
Thanks
Derek
#Tobi suggests it might be a documentation bug. Can anyone confirm it?
There is no such field as address. Have a look at
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/user
to see which fields are currently available. To get the current location, you can use me?fields=id,location{id}, and then request the location.id object in a second request to get the location details.
There is no field like Address though there is current_address & current_location but they also don't seem to work with basic permissions.
Check this for all the field names which you can get from the API. https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/user#columns
I've done extensive research on this, and am baffled. Similar questions on stackoverflow have been answered with, in in short: RTFM. Well, I've done that, and more, and I still can't find how to do this.
On the main FB Graph API page, documentation is given for authenticating, reading, publishing (creating), deleting Graph objects, but I don't see modifying anywhere.
The FB Graph API > User page gives description only of how to create and delete an event on behalf of an authenticated user. I've had no problem with these two actions.
The FB Graph API > Event tells you how to retrieve an existing event, as well as publish to the existing event, posts, links, feed, etc. Once again, no help with modifying.
I've tried (desperately) (':'s removed intentionally due to hyperlink limit):
Sending the same POST request as creating event, ie to https//graph.facebook.com/<user_id>/events, but with an extra 'id' parameter--the existing facebook event id. Facebook doesn't like that, gives me an 'id parameter already sent' error (I'm assuming the user's id).
POSTing to the event directly ie to https//graph.facebook.com/<fb_event_id>/ using the same auth_token as was used to create it. 'Post unsupported' error message.
The fields I send along with the POST are the same as those when creating the event-- 'name', 'location' etc.
If someone's been able to do this, one simple POST example would clear everything up for me.
Thanks!
UPDATE I started using the PHP SDK, but lack of examples disheartening. In hopes that this will save someone else frustration Here are doc examples augmented with an actual api call example:
"You can create an event for a user by issuing an HTTP POST request to
PROFILE_ID/events with the create_event permissions and the following
parameters."
$facebook->api('/'.$profile_id.'/events', 'POST', $params);
Normal enough ... but edit event docs (as of 12/7/12) are misleading:
"You can edit an event by issuing an HTTP POST to /EVENT_ID with the
create_event permission. "
$facebook->api('/events/'.$eventid, 'POST', $params);
Brian
I was able to update a page event by using a POST (not a PUT) directly to the event, using the account or page authentication token. It sounds exactly like what you did in 2 above.
curl -F 'access_token=...' \
-F 'name=A modified event name.' \
https://graph.facebook.com/event_id
I would suggest that you try just sending a modified name field. Also, because you have already created the event, you have the correct permissions. For those who don't know, you need the extended permissions of offline_access, create_event, manage_pages, etc.
It is frustrating, because at one time there was documentation on updates on the Facebook site, but now I can't find it.
Updating is the same as creating BUT, you can only update events created by your APP ID..
I have an app and I want to post to the users feed.
All the users have allowed publish_stream permission but I have no idea how to post to their feeds which I should be able to do even if the user is offline.
I want to use curl and the graph like this:
curl -F 'access_token=...' \
-F 'message=Hello, Arjun. I like this new API.' \
https://graph.facebook.com/arjun/feed
Do I simply use the access code I got when the users initially allowed me access, or do I have to get a new access code each time I want to post to their feed, if so, how do I do that?
Any help, much appreciated.
After the user authorized your application you get an access-token from facebook. You can use this token to post to the users-wall until he changes his password or removes your application from his application list.
I think you need to include your api-key in the request. Otherwise please provide the error message your getting!
I am following the Facebook developer documentation for making a post to a Facebook 'Page' as the Page itself, which according to the docs requires impersonation. I've gotten the access token for the page itself, as well as the Page's ID, by making a call to the "accounts" feed for the user who's the admin for the Page. I then POST to
https://graph.facebook.com/[Page_ID]/feed
With the post items
access_token
and
message
containing the access token and the message, and I get a JSON string back with a post ID. Which all seems to indicate that it is posting the message to the page. HOWEVER, when I go to the particular Page, it doesn't display the posted status.
Does anyone perhaps have any idea why that might be?
Thanks in advance everyone!
Did you make sure to get the "publish_stream" permission from the user?
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/permissions