I want to integrate an android app with facebook.
I've managed to fetch friends list and to post on wall on demand (a facebook url view is loaded and the user can post on wall whatever he texts).
I want, when the app is started and the user accepts the permisions, to post a message on wall that he is started to play my game without showing that url view for posting (an automatically post)
Can someone help me?
It's probably late and maybe you've got your answer for this question.
But for anyone else who need an answer:
First, you can use the Graph API, there is an example of how to post on
a wall.
But there is a restriction!!
Facebook is not allow us to enter a prefiil message!
The content of this message must come from the user itself!
Watch this video of Facebook on Platform Policy 2.3 Example and Explanation
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I am trying to post some predefined text to facebook wall using my android app.
I read somewhere in facebook terms and conditions that fb does not allow external apps to post predefined text to fb wall.
Is there any way to add text to the fb post edit box?
If so pls tell how to do it.
Thanks in advance :)
post some predefined text
That part is impossible and not allowed, because:
Don't prefill captions, comments, messages, or the user message
parameter of posts with content a person didn’t create, even if the
person can edit or remove the content before sharing.
Source: https://developers.facebook.com/policy/
Obviously, you will never get the required permission (publish_actions) approved for posting predefined text.
At present i am struggling to post a comment to a photo on facebook wall .
Can any one direct me the graph-api for posting comment to the facebook photo?
Thanks
So, if you want to publish something, you need to use POST request for facebook-graph-api.
Facebook has a graph structure, so, each thing has connections to other things.
You need to post a message to photo. Ok.
If you have an access_token, you can you POST-request for Graph-API.
OK, after all things, just create an URL for request: https://graph.facebook.com/PHOTO_ID/comments?message=MESSAGE&access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN and use POST:
POST https://graph.facebook.com/PHOTO_ID/comments?message=MESSAGE&access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN
See more information in Publishing section
Adding the icon
You can manage icons from your app's dashboard: https://developers.facebook.com/apps/APP_ID/appdetails
One of the user's of my app, which allows for posting messages to their facebook wall, says that even though it is indicating success, he cannot find the message anywhere.
I've asked him to make sure the app is on his list of approved apps...and it is.
I've asked him to check his personal wall, since it seems you often do not see the app posting on your news feed, but you should always be able to see it on your wall. He says it is not there either.
I retrieved the response from the request(), and it is of the form "id":"22346356_456354....". I assume that's some kind of transaction ID, and is supposed to indicate success?? (I have no idea, because I CANNOT find anywhere a list of what the API responses might be).
Is that the code for "success", and if so, is there some way I can track down with that code just where his post actually went?
thanks.
The response you got back is indeed a success response, and it is the id of the new post (as mentioned in the documentation), which is made of the USER-ID_POST-ID.
As for how to view that post, just direct your browser to:
http://www.facebook.com/USER-ID/posts/POST-ID
I want to upload a foto from my android app to a facebook fan page using the facebook API.
When i look in the hackbook android example app (link). the code looks as following to a upload photo:
Bundle params = new params.putString("url",
"http://www.facebook.com/images/devsite/iphone_connect_btn.jpg"); params.putString("caption",
"FbAPIs Sample App photo upload");
Utility.mAsyncRunner.request("me/photos", params,
"POST", new PhotoUploadListener(), null);
This code works, it posts the photo on my own facebook page. But i don't want the photo to be posted on my page but on a fan page.
As explained in the facebook documentation 'me' could be changed with a facebook User_ID. I tried changing the "me/photo" in "[fanpagename]/photo" or "[fanpageID]/photo", but that did not work. when i used the username i got an error, when i used the ID it post the photo on my own page. In the graphAPI photo documentation (link) no example or explanation is givin on how to upload a foto on fan page.
also the
params.putString("to", [fbid]);
does not work.
Any suggestions?
I have been busy with this research for three full days and did not find the answer for my problem. But i think i have an explanation for it.
if a user posts a photo to friend/fan_page with the official android FB app it uses a "feed" with a picture(url-link). The user can't see on his own wall that he actually shared or posted a picture on the friend/fan_page. (for example: "Bob - posted a photo on CocaCola")
This is probably the reason why the function is disabled because developers could use this to send photo's to all kinds of friends/fan_pages without the user being aware of it.
I came to this hypotheses because i found a sort of work around. First upload the photo to users own album. get the URL of that photo and then post a "feed" on the friend/fan_page with a picture(url-lnk). Facebook then gave this error: "FBCDN image is not allowed in stream" in other words, you can't use photos that are on FB website domain to link to. So I think there is quite a bug/lazyness in the facebook developement departmet :P which is a pity because it is a nice socialnetworking function for mobile apps.
You are on the right track, but to publish photos to a Page you will need the publish_stream and manage_pages permissions, and the Page Access Token to prove you have them. You can read more about this here:
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/page/#photos
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/page/#page_access_tokens
Some example code (using the PHP SDK, but the logic should be the same in any language) is here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/7222078/164439
Update:
If you want to post to the Page's Wall/Feed (without being a Page Admin), you can do that without the Manage Pages permission and the Access Token stuff.
But it's different than publishing a Photo object to the Page's Photos collection, which is what I thought you asked. You actually want to do a regular Post to the Page, with a Picture attachment.
Here are some resources to do this:
Facebook Post API: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/post/
http://facebook.stackoverflow.com/questions/691425/how-do-you-post-to-the-wall-on-a-facebook-page-not-profile
http://facebook.stackoverflow.com/questions/5756474/post-to-facebook-page-wall
Using Facebook Graph to simply post a wall message with just javascript
Good luck!
I am using the facebook API in my app, i know how to post message on wall. my requirement is, i want read the wall information of user recent status information through code .
How can i achieve this...
for example. from my facebook account i want to get the latest status information.
Here's a great example of using the GraphAPI to do that
https://graph.facebook.com/me/feed?access_token={}
Try it out here: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer
EDIT
I stumbled across this the other day. There's a connection from the user object called statuses, which filters the stream even more than feed. As with many graph calls, you can add ?limit=N to limit the result set. So this new way I discovered would look like:
https://graph.facebook.com/me/statuses?limit=1&access_token={}
You should use a third party API such as Easy Facebook SDK. It allows you to do what you are trying to do with ease.
U should check it out here:
http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/385/