I have worked earlier on facebook API. I successfully used it and fetched all friend lists with their email ids. I was also able to get user email id who logged in through facebook API.
Now in gap of 7-8 months I found that faceAPI development section has been changed . New one is something different.
And now I am facing problem to get email id after user login at facebook.Yet all other details are coming like user name .user id and location except email id.
Old script is also not working with me. Could you help me to get email id of user who get login by facebook at my website.
Thanks for your cooperation.
No one will do your homework (upgrade the code for you)
Read the most current documentation
Accessing users e-mails require a special permission email
Users may choose not sharing their direct e-mail with you
You didn't say what technology you are using, but you can check the PHP-SDK example page to get started.
Direct Access Method:
Log into Facebook under your name. If you need an "Access Token", Click on the Extended Permissions and click the "read_friendlist" check box to get your Access Token and then
submit your query. You may need to "Allow" access, so just follow the prompts given.
Voila! You now have the usernames for everyone on your Friends List. The "username" parameter in the query will give you the contact email "message to that person" and you append #facebook.com and send them a message. Very simple.
http://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer?fql=SELECT%20username%20FROM%20user%20WHERE%20uid%20IN%20%28SELECT%20uid2%20FROM%20friend%20WHERE%20uid1%20%3D%20me%28%29%29%20ORDER%20BY%20name
I had been using the import function in Yahoo Mail but now it has been limited to the first 50 names on your friends list. Where I work, they have over 6,000 friends between the two pages. This is a very simple solution to my problem. And now I can write a very small PHP sendmail program and send EVERYONE on the friends list an email message that goes directly to their messages. No more viewing page sources or manually doing this.
I can create a special email list on IFanz that will handle all dups, even if I repeat this process on a monthly basis to acquire new emails.
-SAB
Related
I've seen this use case a few times.
A user goes to a company's web site and places an order with the company.
User logs into Facebook.
Messenger window shows up that says order confirmation # and now there's a chat between you and the business.
I'm trying to figure out how this is done.
Of course, if the user has given the app permissions or there was some Facebook integration on check out, then presumably the company has captured the user id and can send messages.
Is there any possible way that a company can send a message to a user by simply knowing their e-mail address? I think FB ids are scoped to Apps so even if you knew the user's FB Id, the ID on your app would be different. Any ideas?
I did it with ruby on rails.Let me give my articles about messenger bot.
This link show from scratch. and it uses this gem to make it happen. These are so useful articles. if you have additional questions, please let me know.
I have read through
https://sitecore-community.github.io/docs/xDB/the-xdb-contact/ and https://doc.sitecore.net/sitecore_experience_platform/81/setting_up__maintaining/xdb/contacts/contact_tracking.
I would like to know whether Sitecore contact tracking will work for my client or not.
I have created a simple newsletter subscription functionality (without WFFM form submission). Once a user submits his information along with personal details and email, I send a confirmation email link. After confirming the email address, I am creating contacts through code. Thanks to Brian!
My application session state mode is InProc.
My question is, if user is interacting with the site with a new session after subscription (after submitting email):
Will Sitecore identify user as contact (and merge in existing anonymous contact) or will it create new anonymous contact each time?
I am NOT using any of the following services in my solution:
Device detection
GeoIp Service
FXM
Your approach
It seems to me that manually creating contacts is completely unnecessary in your case.
As I understand from your post, here's what happens:
A user visits your website.
Sitecore creates a new contact (ID: xxx).
The user browses the website and submits your form.
A confirmation email is sent to the user's email address.
The user clicks on the link in the email and hits a confirmation page on the site.
Your code creates a new contact in xDB (ID: yyy).
As a result, you have two separate contacts in xDB that are not related to each other, from Sitecore's perspective.
Now, to your question:
Will Sitecore identify user as contact (and merge in existing anonymous contact) or will it create new anonymous contact each time?
If the user is visiting from the same browser, Sitecore will recognize them as the original contact (ID: xxx) based on a cookie. Sitecore will not create a new contact in this case.
If the user is visiting from another browser or device, he will not be recognized as any of the existing contacts and a new anonymous contact will be created (ID: zzz).
As you can see, Sitecore has no way of automatically using the contact you created (ID: yyy).
Suggested solution
The only way to make Sitecore recognize a user as a specific contact is to use the identification API. In short, what you can do is this:
Sitecore.Analytics.Tracker.Current.Session.Identify(identifier);
Here's what I suggest you to do:
Do not create new contacts manually—there's just no need for that.
When the user has submitted the form, you invoke Identify() and pass the user's email address as the identifier. This will set the user's email address as the identifier of the current contact.
When the user comes back from the email link you sent, you invoke Identify() once again. This will make sure that, even if the user is coming from another device, the same xDB contact will be used in his session. You'll need to pass the same email address to Identify(), so make sure you have access to it—for example, you can include it in your email confirmation link as a query string parameter.
Use Sitecore.Analytics.Tracker.Current.Contact and populate the current contact's facets with the information you've collected about the user.
If you have a login functionality, remember to invoke Identify() on successful login attempts—again, this is to ensure that the same contact is used for all sessions of the same user.
The flow I'm going for is:
User signs in with Facebook to our site.
User pays a fee using PayPal or some similar service.
User is allowed access to a particular Facebook group.
I'm not particularly fussy about how the process works, but I'd like to avoid a manual step if possible.
I know I can't invite them using the Graph API (as they're not an admin, developer or tester of the app). But is there some other way round? A button that allows them to request access that I then confirm using the API? An automatic way of emailing an invite?
Or is there a way of making it easier to do the manual step? Some way of listing the new users with an "invite to group" button? A friend request button for the user to press?
With facebook API you can't do this with a normal group, but you can use app groups instead. To create an app group, you have to do a POST request to this url:
http://graph.facebook.com/{your-app-id}/groups
with the following informations:
valid app access token
name: the name of the group
description: the description of the group
privacy: enum, it can be open or closed
admin: admin's user id
Then you will recive a gropu ID. You can get info about your group ith a GET request to this URL:
http://graph.facebook.com/{group-id}
EDITED: You can no longer add members with POST request, but there is an another way.
New solution
You can use a client-side dialog to add members to groups. You can find the documentation here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/games/app-game-groups/v2.0#add_user
I tested it with a user who wasn't a tester, andd it works fine.
Old solution (no longer available)
You can add members to this group with a POST request to this URL:
http://graph.facebook.com/{group-id}/members
You have to post:
valid app access token
member: user ID of the person to invite
The person will recive something like this image:
(source: edemmester.hu)
I tested it, it works fine.
More info about app groups: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.0/app/groups
IMPORTANT! You have to use app access tokens here, not user access tokens.
I don't think it's possible to invite people without writing a browser extension that has access to the cookies etc. of the logged-in group admin.
Anyway, you cannot simply add people to a group if you're not friends with them, but need to invite them by email. So probably it's easiest if you ask them for their email-address and then invite them by email.
I use Facebook Graph API to get user's email as user account in my system.
It works well 99.9% when user accept the email permission.
But in some accounts, I got 'null' even when user accept the email permission.
and I checked the setting of one account, nothing unusual or different from others.
Do anyone knows what's happened and how to solve it?
many thanks,
Phil
It's possible that some users simply won't have an email - it's possible to sign up for Facebook with a cell phone only - if there's some other reason i'm not aware of it, it could be a bug with the API
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).