Is there a workaround for the current bug in FQL: http://developers.facebook.com/bugs/266794040030851?browse=search_4f2ff35cf1e521b94883666
The idea would be to request SELECT id FROM user WHERE name="First last" but there is currently a bug in the index such that you can't search by name.
I need to find someones facebook id from their full-name, preferably ordered by mutual friends. I've tried the facebook search api but haven't found it reliable.
Thanks!
Actually there is an ugly workaround but you have to go outside FQL:
https://graph.facebook.com/search?fields=id,name,link&q=|name|&type=user&access_token=MY_VALID_ACCESS_TOKEN
Using search API this might work, where there is |name| you should just put "Name Surname".
EDIT:
Beware: A facebook app cannot have MORE privileges than a facebook user, ok I'm expanding what I'm trying to say: As you know a facebook user can modify his account settings in order to be NOT visible in public search that means EVERY search will not display that particular user... if the user you are trying to search has this particular setting, then you won't see him, not even through FQL!
This is where a facebook user can set this
Related
The Facebook site allows to search for phrases like:
Pages liked by people who are older than 50 and live in Munich,
Germany.
How can I do that with the Graph API?
If this is not possible, do you know a workaround to do such searches automatically?
You can not do this at all.
The reason: Privacy.
You can not search all users of Facebook for demographic data this detailed.
In order to get what a user like you'll need the user to authorize your app to use "user_likes", which requires review. Source: Scroll down to "user_likes" section
In order to get anything other then under 18, or under/over 21 you'll need "user_birthday", which requires review. Source: Scroll down to "Guidelines" on load then "ctrl+F" for "user_birthday"
You can use "age_range" from public profile, doesn't require review, but this will only be for users that have authorized your app. Source: Age Range.
In order to get a user location you'll need the user to authorize your app to use "user_location", which requires review. Source: ctrl+F type "user_loction"
You can use "locale" from public profile, doesn't require review, but this will only be for users that have authorized your app, and it will only show what language they use FB in. Source: Scroll down to "gender & locale" under "Public Profile"
All of what you want to do requires a Facebook review I doubt it will be approved. Next even if it did only those users that have installed/authorized your app will be available to your app. You absolutely can not open search user data like that with out the users permission.
I'm using Java for searching public page info in Facebook.
I chose for now to use the Facebook4J but this is not a must.
I succeeded to search for pages named "Some Name" and I would like to read the is_verified property of the page to make sure this is the official page I'm looking for and not a faked one.
There is no isVerified() method on Page object and I do not how to run a FQL query using the search API.
This FQL runs well in Facebook simulator:
select page_id, name, is_verified, is_community_page
from page
where name='Tom Cruise' and is_verified=1
The Java code I'm having right now is this:
ResponseList<Page> pages = facebook.searchPages(personName);
I tried copy-paste the FQL into the search as parameter, as the method signature is
ResponseList<Page> searchPages(String query) throws FacebookException;
but I get no results...
I also cannot loop on all 'Tom Cruise' pages and ask whether they are verified or not because, as I mentioned before, there is no 'isVerified()' method on Page.
I'll appreciate any Java solution, even if it means that I should drop Facebook4J for another platform.
The is_verfied page field is added with RestFB version 1.10.0.
I would like to know If it's possible to add a Check in on Facebook with PHP but without any Page id.
Because I have a database with a lot of places but I do not have a corresponding Facebook Page Id.
ANy idea?
To my knowledge, it is not possible to do a Check In without a page_id.
You can refer to How to get place_id before checkin? to find out how to get Facebook Page Id for your places.
(Note I need a solution for this that works on 2007 and 2010)
We have a desktop application that we are adding Sharepoint Check in and out functionality to using the Web Services.
One issue we are coming up against is determining if the current user (of the desktop app) has a document checked out.
Our current approach is to get information about the document in question via Lists GetListItems call which will return us the ows_CheckoutUser field if the document is checked out.
We then want to compare the name of the check out user to the name of our user.
The problem is the name in ows_CheckoutUser seems to be the display name of the user and not the account name and therefore is not unique and not reliable for this check.
I noticed that ows_CheckoutUser also returns an ID value for the user but I can't seem to find out how to get the ID of my current user so I can compare on that instead.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Is this the right way to go about it or is there a better way?
I have thought about trying to run a query via GetListItems that would match on the document name and the checkout user equals my current user to see if I get any results back but I think that would suffer from the same problem.
Or maybe I need to go outside the Web Services and use the author.dll?
Edit
I've started going down the route of using an RPC call to getDocsMetaInfo via the Author.dll FP extension.
This call actually gives you the account name of the user that has the document checked out.
I'd still be interested in a solution using the Web Services however
Not sure what the native reply of sharepoint but I suppose it should be the same as when using the Camelot .NET Connector for SharePoint.
You have a few fields which possibly can hold this info
CheckedOutUserId, ID of the User who has the item Checked Out (Lookup)
IsCheckedoutToLocal, (Lookup)
CheckoutUser, Checked Out To (User)
CheckedOutTitle, Checked Out To (User) -
LinkCheckedOutTitle, Checked Out To (Computed)
It actually is LinkCheckedOutTitle that contain the visual reference to the user who checked the document out. In my case it's listed as trikksdomain\trikks, or if a localadmin checked the doc out its machine\administrator.
Here is a SharePoint 2010 Document Library Column Reference guide. http://www.bendsoft.com/download.php?id=b05c062a401cf8bc221ea5df63cc9570
OK, apologies for the verbose title. Let me give the background in a bit more detail.
My website allows my registered users to create new pages, each of which has its own unique URL. Each page has a Facebook "Like" button on it. I've already implemented Facebook Open Graph API meta tags so that the pages are proper open graph objects, and when some other visiting Facebook user "likes" the registered user's page, a post appears on that Facebook user's wall saying they have liked the page. The Facebook Like widget also displays the number of "likes" that page has received as normal. So far, so good.
What I want to do is allow my registered users to be able to communicate back to the Facebook users who have liked their page. The community of "likers" for a page is a potentially valuable social media resource to the registered user, if only they could communicate back.
I am aware of the "admin page" link you get beside the Like button, which can be used to post to these people, but that is not an option for my registered users as they have no privileges in relation to the Like button.
What I want to do, if possible, is setup a form to capture the registered user's message back to the Facebook users, and then my website sends the message on their behalf, without having to ask for any extra privileges from the Facebook users.
The following Facebook documentation pages seem to say this is possible, but having followed the Open Graph API documentation, I can't get it to work as described - http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/465/ and http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/ ("Publishing" subsection). I can get the access token correctly in the first request, and plug that into the second request to do the post, but that doesn't seem to do anything and doesn't return any error.
Since it doesn't work for me, I'm wondering if this is possible as described, or do I need to get some sort of extra permission to do this? I've seen reference to offline_access permission but as I'm new to this stuff I am not sure how it would fit in. If I have to get the Facebook users to grant permissions, this is not going to work as envisaged.
Any thoughts would be most helpful.
The short answer: No, You will never been able to post on someones wall as another user.
The long answer:
You could try to ask for offline access but then you are asking the user to hand over all their facebook data and give you access todo whatever you like their accound, so that is not likely to happend.
The next problem is that they have to be friends to be able to post on each others walls.
Thats why Pages was implemented, so that organisations could announce/talk with the people interested.
However if you have created the like button correctly and give the pages correct meta data, you are able to post to user who have liked it.
Scroll down to Publishing:
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/
Just add a form for your user and let your system publish to the correct page, you probably will need a offline token from your own account or similar to use on the server.
Another more complex way could be to generate a facebook page for each page you have on your server.
When the user creates a page on your system a page is created on facebook but as your app as admin.
And when another user likes the page they like the facebook page, hence you have the possibility to post in that page and speak to the user who liked it. (whooa thats a mouthfull).