I develop mobile websites for my clients. This particular client would like some facebook wall activity to be displayed on the website. I have looked into the facebook graph api and am getting confused on authentication.
I need the blah in https://graphs.facebook.com/clientsfacebookid/feed?access_token=blah
in order to grab the info i want. I read about authentication and all of that but it doesn't seem to serve my purposes.. For example a lot of the stuff I read about getting a token is related to creating apps and stuff - which is not what I'm trying to do. A lot of ways to authenticate redirect users to log in or grant access to the information but this also doesn't seem like it fits my scenario.
Should I just talk to my client and get them to send me an access code or set up some stream so I can grab an updated access code anytime I need it OR is there some built in functionality in the API that I could benefit from using.
Any thoughts?
P.S. I am trying to implement this via an ajax call in javascript.
Thanks!
What you'll need to do is create a Facebook App and have your client add this to their page. You can then get an OAuth token for this app and use it to query the client's feed. See the Facebook documentation for authenticating as an app for details.
It's actually far simpler if you just want to grab the data from the page. Create an App, but you don't need to add it to the actual page. You can generate an App Access Token by following the instruction on the Facebook Developer Website.
Then, all you need to do is call the Graph API with the generated access_token. E.g.:
https://graph.facebook.com/{page_id}/feed?access_token={app_access_token}
You can then use the data returned by Facebook to display selected posts from the page.
The Page Admin doesn't need to add the app to the page, and this method can be used to scrape any published page. The posts on Pages is public anyway, you just need an access_token to access the page.
If you want a simple way to learn and have an example of a working model try out fourgefeed.com its a simple framework with a simple to implement example kinda like jquery.
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I'm making a rails application, I want users to post their tweets by submitting a link [of the tweet]. I'm guessing its done with javascript/twittera api. Things needed to be extracted:
tweet owner
tweet + image
link to user profile page
Twitter REST API requires oAuth authentication. So, you would have to provide access token with all of your API calls. oAuth specification allows you to get access token through javascript as well. So you might want to look into that.
If you decide on using REST API, I would suggest moving this to server-side. You would be able to save user tweet urls and data.
Alternatively, if you are just playing with javascript and want to do this for yourself, you can simply see in your browser's developer tools where official Twitter widgets are getting tweet data and use that edges. I remember myself doing this several years ago.
But, please note. These urls are not public and official way of working with twitter data. So, they may change at any time and break your code.
I have an app and i have created the required API for in php I could also create it using firebase.
The app is meant to be used by people who are new to technology. I don't want any login authentication.
As I have created API any one who goes through my code can see the API link and can get the data which i don't want.
What i want to achieve is the API to serve data when the request is from my app only
How can i achieve this without any user login?
create an access token and store it in your application, then on each ajax request you will compare the token, so if the token is valid you will deliver the contents otherwise you will show an error message.
As, raymond Camden said in his comment:
it is not secure. I can use Remote Debugging to sniff the access token
and then use it myself. At the end of the day, there is no way to do
what you want 100% securely.
I am working on a seemingly simple Facebook integration to allow my client (a local restaurant) to display their daily specials on their website. To make this work properly I need to sort through their posts, find the most recent post that has a certain string of characters (to distinguish from other posts they make), and display the post on the webpage. I know how to do this part but I am having trouble getting the data in the first place.
My question: How do I access the data for this Facebook page's posts? This needs to work
Without logging into Facebook
Preferably client-side
I would also like to use the JSON from the Graph API but I need an access token according to all the research I have done so far which would force me to go server-side. The Facebook social plugins are not specific enough to do what I want. Any help using the Graph API or another method to retrieve the page's posts is very much appreciated.
I have a client who would like the most recent post displayed on their site (along with like and comment counts) plus a link to the actual post. Their page is public, so I can view it in a browser without being logged in. Let's just say it's Nike.
http://www.facebook.com/nike (public)
http://graph.facebook.com/nike/feed (wait, i need to authenticate to see this?)
I went through the trouble of setting up a dummy app on a dummy account, got an access_token an was able to pull what I needed using javascript(Jquery). The reason I'm doing it this way is because the client has sensitive data and other apps/sites on this server and does not want to involve their IT department to QA my code.
Before final handoff, they'll likely set up their own facebook app on their account. This would significantly raise the stakes if someone decided they wanted to play with that access_token.
I'm mostly a front-end guy who's done some small php sites/apps, so what would you recommend I do?
Thanks for your time!
I don't know about facebook in particular, but typically if you want to protect api access credentials you would proxy the request through your server, and just send the results to the client (so the access key only exists on the server). Alternately, and I'm not sure that facebook provides this, some APIs will give you a user token, which does not expose your access key, but allows the client to call the api.
I'm working on a plugin to enable a mailclient to access a users Facebook Inbox. I know I need to request an access token with extended permissions. The thing is: I have no Idea how to do that.
The plugin needs to be written in javascript. I have managed to open a webbrowser to the required URL but I have no idea, how to extract the access token from the webbrowser, in order to use it in the rest of my script.
Is there any way this can be achieved, or do i need to use different technology?
To get an access token you need to first create a Facebook application. To do it, add the developer application to your Facebook profile.
http://developers.facebook.com/
Then the user will need to grant access to your application.
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/