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.
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So apparently, Facebook collects huge amount of data from user, and not just from hitting the Like button, but also the amount of time that user has spent looking at some post by someone ( reading friends status update ). Is there a method to see what am I actually sending to Facebook and when (time is relevant). Can I view those requests in Windows 7?
Is it possible to do reverse engineering on this particular topic?
This will be available in all browsers but if you have access to Chrome then go to "View" and then "Developer" and then "Developer Tools".
From here select the "Network" tab.
You can then see all traffic travelling between your browser and the internet. You can filter this list down based on the Domain Name, e.g. facebook or any other aliases they use.
Click on any item in the list and then you can see the request and response.
This should help you to get started.
It's not that simple..
Facebook will use their own format, not like the most simple aka REST / JSON applications.
Facebook is making it very very hard to read/understand their APIs, obviously...
They will use some kind of their own binary data implementation, so really if you look at the post data, its just number, some (maybe) encrypted token like data, stored in a base64 format.. what ever..
Additionally, FB is using a lot of AI processing, this is no rocket-science anymore.. The internal APIs could also work based on that. So reverse-engineering FB makes no sense. Just write you own.
I also think, that many very good IT specialists are already trying it. Companies like FB will also make internal contests on this topic, to make their APIs even more secure. Actually, if you do some Online Banking, you will find more useful information on what data was send, then on FB.
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 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.
I am making a small payment system, basically it's just a point system, you pay say 1 USD and you get 100 points which is used later on in a game project to get bonuses. It's a script for game servers, something like a user panel.
Now, the script system is ready, but I'm afraid to give it away, since than someone will share it and it will spread all over the gaming area. What would be the solution keeping it working only if I give them a permission?
I thought about re-making whole code and make it work on my website but I don't think that people will want to put their SQL data to website that located NOT on their host. Please help me out, at least with some clues, maybe its possible to make some widgets? or maybe some license system?
I'm really lost.
You should implement the logic on the server side as an api REST call and include in the script only an ajax call to the api. You can limit the use of the api through an api key that you'll provide only to qualified sites.
You'd need to implement some sort or serverside authentication/api so that only varified users can use the script. Much like how software checks a licence.
On script load your javascript could make a ajax call to a server passing through the users IP, auth key, username etc etc.
This can then be varified on the server, maybe returning a dynamically generated url containing a javascript file which contains your business logic
(so that urls are dynamically generated for that users session only)
That way people cant hot link the script, and the script you give out is solely the ajax call
(With the business logic script injected on auth)
I am developing a webpage for a company which needs to show the company's linkedIn follower count. I have no idea how to implement this. Please help me out.
The question you're asking is more complicated than a simple answer can give. In order to implement LinkedIn you'll either need to use the REST API or the Javascript API. The general information on company lookup is here. In order to get specific fields, you'll also need to understand the LinkedIn Field Selectors/
In the REST API, assuming you have successfully implemented the OAuth Authentication you would make the following call (this is to get the follower count for LinkedIn, which has an ID of 1337:
http://api.linkedin.com/v1/companies/1337:(num-followers)
In the Javascript API you could do something similar with a Raw call:
IN.API.Raw("/companies/1337:(num-followers)")
If you're going to be using the LinkedIn APIs from scratch, you should work through our tutorials - we don't have any ASP specific tutorials but there is a good C# example/library linked from our Libraries and Tools page that you can work from.