Is it possible to get and to change the new porfile cover (mine or my friends' profil cover) with the sdk php or JS ?
It is possible to get the Facebook's user cover image using the Graph API. You have to add 'fields=cover' to the user request. The response is an array of fields id, source, and offset_y. You need an access token for this.
You cannot update the cover photo using the API, only retrieve it.
http://graph.facebook.com/[USER_ID]?fields=cover
It's still not possible with the current APIs exposed by Facebook.
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I'm trying to get the details of the user using the access_token from the Instagram APIs, Instagram Basic Display API and Instagram Graph API. What I found is the details are bit messy and by going deep into it I'm not able to conclude the final result as I want.
What I got to know during the implementation is that Instagram has stopped the public APIs. does that mean apart from getting auth-token then had stopped everything?.
I have even tried the Instagram Basic Display API which is only giving the access of 4 fields account_type, id, media_count, username. Is it possible to get any other field from the same API?
If so How do I get the profile picture of the user and other basic details of the Instagram user?
any help will be appreciated
Currently, the API endpoint for retrieving a user's profile information only allows for the retrieval of the 4 fields you listed above. This is, up to now, all that has been made available for retrieval through the me endpoint of the Instagram Basic Display API for getting a User node.
Until the API developers further extend the API's endpoints and capabilities, you won't be able to use this API programmatically to get a user's profile image.
Our app has been approved for Groups API as well as publish_to_groups API.
Earlier, Facebook let you get groups that a given user administered. However, administer field is deprecated in the latest API.
How can we fetch it now?
I finally found how to do it. Earlier, Facebook allowed you to pass a filter with ?administrator=1 GET parameter. However, they still have an undocumented field administrator that you can fetch via ?field=administrator GET parameter. It will let you know if you are an admin or not and you can use it from there.
So I was going through Instagram's API and I implemented it. However it isn't as useful as I thought it would be because when trying to get and OAuth2 token a user is taken to a page to authorize them in what looks to be and effort of insuring that the user realizes that they are about to view and share Instagram content with my application. This all makes sense to me although not ideal. You can find it in detail here(Step One: Direct your user to our authorization URL).
Then I saw this press release from a company called Celtra who says they can pull the the most recent images off any Instagram feed and put them in an Ad. I checked it out and somehow they are pulling the images of other companies without this authorization page I am encountering. Basically without page scrapping I don't know how to do this with Instagrams API, and I realize scraping violates Instagrams terms of service. Does anyone have this functionality, where I can pull down images from Instagram and not take a user to an authentication page working legally as I am assuming Celtra is doing? Guidance or documentation on how to achieve this would be ideal.
Instagram recently added an endpoint that will allow you to any instagram account's photos without oauth or needing access_token, you can specify client_id and make API call to get photos.
Just register for an app account at here and add the client_id to this endpoint and make call:
https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/3/media/recent/?client_id=YOUR-CLIENT_ID
You only need access_token to get users' likes, follower feed and to like/comment/follow.
update: you need to have access_token with the new API changes, cannot
access API with just client_id anymore
To do this simply, you could authenticate your app from a dummy profile or your own personal profile and then use the access_token to request the feeds of any account. Then, when an end user goes to use your product, instead of authenticating them, you can just pull content from the Instagram API using your access_token.
I have a log in to my site using Twitter. It all works great.
Whilst I can do a call to get the current users details etc and log them in, I'm a bit stumped on how I make calls to get the profile images of users stored in my database; those who may not be using the website at that time?
I am using the monkehTweets Twitter library:
https://github.com/coldfumonkeh/monkehTweets
To get the current user, I sign them in and do this:
application.objMonkehTweet.setFinalAccessDetails(
oauthToken = returnData.token,
oauthTokenSecret = returnData.token_secret,
userAccountName = returnData.screen_name
);
local.userDetails = application.objMonkehTweet.getUserDetails(user_id=returnData.user_id);
As part of the log in process on my website, if a user hasn't used the site before, I store their Twitter ID.
I was hoping to then use this to display their profile images on the posts they make to other users.
What is the best approach to achieve this? With the Facebook API, you can make requests to a URL with the ID...but Twitter doesn't seem to allow this.
I would prefer not to 'store' the image on my own file system. This was a possibility I had in mind, but I'd rather use the API to always ensure the latest data.
Is there a way to use my own app details through OAuth to access this?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Michael.
PS - I am using ColdFusion (Railo) to do my server-side based authentication.
The twitter api returns profiles with the images (if you are looking it up) in the key profile_image_url
So you could store them in a cache like:
if(!cacheKeyExists(twitterID)){
// Code to get a twitter profile through monkehtweet
cachePut(twitterID, profile.profile_image_url);
}
return cacheGet(twitterID);
Hope this helps
I know it is possible to get the locale of the user with getSignedRequest, and it is possible to get the locale of the user with https://graph.facebook.com/me?fields=locale once they have authorised the app. But what is the equivalent graph api url that I can use before they have authorised the app? All my code is with the graph api so I really dont want to have to switch now to using the whole facebook->getSignedRequest() stuff. I can't find it anywhere but seems silly this functionality has not been provided in graph api?
You have to pick between using the signed_request (which is sent in a POST request to all apps on Facebook) or authorizing the user.
If you don't do one of these, then you won't know what the Users ID is, so you will never be able to identify their locale.
The signed_request just requires you to be able to capture request data and then perform the parsing logic outlined in the doc linked to above - it doesn't require the use of any SDK or API, just the ability to read requests (most languages will be able to do this).