I am looking for a way to show Facebook engagement on from our website on our Facebook page. IE, when someone likes/shares etc. a page on the website, that that activity be reflected by our Facebook page in some way.
I was planning on using the graph API calls to do page updates, but the permissions are granted to users, not to the app itself, meaning this would only be possible for existing administrators, defeating the whole purpose (Perhaps a bit obvious in hindsight).
Is there a good, clean way of posting page likes/shares of our web pages to our Facebook page feed?
Notes:
I'm working in PHP and/or client side JS
A high volume of posts drowning our regular content is not likely at the moment, however, advice about how to manage such a beast in the long run might be helpful
If I understood correctly and want to share content from Facebook into your Website, the behavior you mention used to exist via the Activity Feed or Recommendations Feed. However, it has been deprecated since Graph API version 2.3.
If what you want is to update comments from people in your Website to your FB Page, you could implement something in your backend which listens to content uploaded and uses your Page Access Token to create custom stories using your user's data. As you mention, it won't happen in the name of people, but you could be creative and make the text narrate what people did on your website. Maybe even use OpenGraph for this.
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As example, i want to update my item list every time Amazon add a new product, is possible to do it without knowing their system or DB?
Unfortunately, no!!! This is the disadvantage of relying on a 3rd party site for the content of your site. However, using the API of the site, whose data you want to access, can give this functionality, but this will not work for all the sites.
If the 3rd-party site does not provide an API to access their data, you'll need to "scrape" the site of that data. In theory this is easy, however, large companies like Amazon deliberately attempt to foil scraping attempts. See an open source project dedicated to this exact prupose: https://github.com/adamlwgriffiths/amazon_scraper The author says it best:
Amazon have resorted to moving more and more content into iFrames which this scraper can't handle. I envisage a time where most data will be inaccessible without more complex logic.
I've spent a long time trying to get these scrapers working and it's a never ending battle. I don't have the time to continually keep up the pace with Amazon. If you are interested in improving Amazon Scraper, please let me know (creating an issue is fine). Any help is appreciated.
If you want to build a custom tool to scrape public websites, I would check out Node.js. It is popular due to its ability to query the page DOM effectively. There are some good writeups out there to get started: https://scotch.io/tutorials/scraping-the-web-with-node-js
I want to know if my website user click in a link in another website so I can show him a thank you message.
I want to get this click in another website link. Is it possible? How can I do something like this?
Thank you
Your question doesn't state whether you control the link you are trying to monitor, or if you are trying to monitor a link controlled by a third-party website. I'm going to assume the later, but if you control the link, then see the first comment to your answer.
The short version is that there is no way to independently monitor a user's action on another website from within your own. To allow this would violate some of the fundamental tenants that networking and the Internet are based on. For example, if I host the website www.reallyCoolRocksToBuy.com and I want to know whether or not you just purchased a really cool rock on Amazon after viewing it on my site, there is no way to directly get this data even though both my website and Amazon's are open in your browser at the same time.
The highest level object you can access via Java or HTML normally (there are always some exceptions) is the Window object of your own page. There used to be a way to have some control over a third-party page that was launched in a window that you spawned, but this is no longer possible, and even it it was, you still wouldn't be able to monitor any links from that site.
The only way to achieve what you want is for the third-party site to be involved in the communication. Many sites have APIs for sending and receiving referral or link information. For example, Amazon has an API that you can use when someone clicks on an Amazon link from your site. There are a number of ways this is achieved, but basically your link sends a specially encoded string to Amazon identifying your site as the referrer. Amazon can this use this string to create and share session information from the visitor. Depending on what your relationship was with Amazon, you might be able to use this session information to find out if your user purchased a pretty rock from Amazon, but it would be entirely up to Amazon to share this information.
Cookies and other local data can also be used to achieve similar results, but again, you have to have the cooperation of the site.
Does anyone know if Facebook frowns upon content only they can access, meaning not publicly reachable? I have a test server http://test.somesite.com with some custom JS which we implemented Facebook like buttons with. This is where we test the development code prior to deployment to the live server at http://www.somesite.com so we want to have solid test coverage including these like buttons.
The server http://test.somesite.com is only accessible to our office and a few places outside if we open our firewall. To get the like functionality tested, we can punch a hole in the firewall for Facebook to hit.
The problem I'm concerned with is if Facebook detects the limited content accessibility. I'm sure they don't want to post tons of links to pages that their users will get a 'Forbidden', other error, or timeout if they click on it. I know Google would have a fit if they detected you doing something like this and it affected their search results... Also, there's the concern for Duplicate content being on both http://test.somesite.com and http://www.somesite.com.
Does creating a test links like this hurt our main server or domain in Facebook searches? I'm unfamiliar with SEO guidelines for Facebook (or if there are any yet).
Facebook needs to access the og tags on the page in order for the like button to work, so if you want to test it, your site needs to be accessible. What I'd be more cautious about is repeatedly posting then deleting stories from your site in the testing. I think Facebook would take that as a signal to rank down your content.
Facebook doesn't have any SEO guidelines. You can test as much as you need.
I'm trying to create a webpage that can incorporate LinkedIn info's (profile,people,company, etc...).
The things that it can/would do are the following:
When the user enters a name that is registered in LinkedIn, he gets the following
*Name, Company, Email
*List of LinkedIn messages that are waiting for reply
The same process goes on everytime the user adds a profile, I'm planning to use the Profile API of LinkedIn to get the Name, Company and Email but I can't find a working example to be my basis.
As for the 2nd one I still don't know how to get the LinkedIn messages.
Here's my Layout and expected result.
How can I achieved this? Opinions and Suggestions are highly appreciated tnx
This is far to broad a question for me to invest the necessary time in to figure the answers (multiple) for you, but do let me give you some hints. First of all, from my experience with the linkedin API not all the data you wish to access is available (do double check this though, I used the API quite awhile back and stuff might have changed in the meantime). As this data is not available through the API the only alternative would be to somehow bypass the cross domain policy, which in conclusion would require the user to install a chrome extension/firefox plugin which will function as a proxy for your application or even 'better', make you entire application a browser plugin based web app. Not that I am a fan of those whatsoever but if you application is meant in any way whatsoever as a linkedin (dedicated) plugin (probably as part of a greater service you're developing) then it might make most sense.
The whole system you are describing is very long winded and requires a large amount of development time. Alot of the data is not accessible directly or indirectly too. You cannot get email address's out from the API as a security feature (bots could just harvest emails for marketing campaigns).
First of all, you will need to make an application that allows for oAuth2 connections with the linkedin API service. People will log onto your website, click to join their linkedin account with your website and your website will receive back an access token to do the calls.
You will then need to build the queries which will access the data you require. The linkedin API documentation (http://developer.linkedin.com/) isn't greatly indepth but it gives you a good understand and points you where you need to go. There are also a couple of pre-done php API's around such as https://code.google.com/p/simple-linkedinphp/.
I have worked with many API's from twitters, facebooks and LinkedIn's and they all require a lot of back-end work to make sure that they are secure and get the correct data.
It would take me hours to go through exactly how to do it and has taken me many hours to get a solid implementation in place and working with all the different calls available.
If you have minimal coding knowledge, it would be best to go to an external company with a large amount of resources and knowledge in the field who can do it for you. Otherwise it may take many months to get a working prototype.
A client of mine (a design studio) asked me to style the like-box social plugin on their site.
As far as I know this cannot be done now with the deprecation of "css" parameter on the fbml tag.
So the route I have to take is to recreate the like-box myself using the js SDK (or php SDK), but the problem is that I cannot find the users (and their photos) that like my page. I'm searching through the opengraph explorers parameters but i cannot find anything.
Does anyone know which url I must follow in the graph api to get what I want?
Do I have to have an access token for such an action? I noticed that the likebox plugin works event if you don't have a facebook account (It shows pictures).
Thank you.
You can't recreate the like box on your own. The Facebook APIs will not return a list of users who like your object. This was done to stop people from getting user lists of likers and spamming them.
Currently, you can only query to find if a specific, authenticated user or which of their friends likes your object.
You could build something similar by populating your fake like box with images of recent posters. You would need to deal with filtering out duplicates, and the page posting as itself, but this should get you started: /PAGE_ID/feed?fields=from.name,from.picture&limit=10
You will need an access_token to get this data. I'd authenticate as an app to do it.