Hello I am trying to delete old channel art. The one suggestion I found was to go to https://picasaweb.google.com/home. That doesn't work for me. That shows my profile and blog photos, not my 'page' photos.
I did figure out how to get to my source image folder for my page, but it only shows scrapbook photos and profile image photos:
What I want to get to is the other photos, as shown as available if I click:
Manage This Page / Edit / Posts / Photo / Your Google Photos
The weird thing is that I was once able to get them through https://picasaweb.google.com/pageID
I tried https://picasaweb.google.com/PageID/YoutubeChannelArt, but that didn't work.
I want to delete those Youtube Channel Art photos. They are eating away at my storage space!
HALP!
Well, I don't know if you still need a solution for this or if you figured it out yourself since then, but I stumbled upon your question while searching on Google for a solution to the same problem. Needless to say, I was annoyed when I saw that the question was unanswered.
I've found the solution while searching online for a bit longer, though.
You will have to give your Google+ page its own login and password. This is the page I've found that explained how to do it.
Then you can log onto Picasa Web as usual, except instead of logging in with your regular gmail account, you will login with the new login and password that was given to your Google+ page. You should now be able to access every photo and photo album on your Google+ page.
This was a huge pain for me because it had several random duplicate photo albums that I wished to get rid of and I had to jump through 50 hoops to finally get to delete these albums and the duplicate pictures, but it works. Why they removed the option to manage your photo albums directly from Google+, I have no idea.
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I'm fairly new to posting to social media via Swift in an iOS app but need to be able to post an image to Twitter under a certain hashtag (i.e the user's image is always posted under this certain hashtag regardless).
So far, my app can take a picture and access the user's photo library, but I have run into some trouble implementing post to Twitter.
I have looked at the following questions: Post on twitter from ios app
How to make an ios app post to twitter
But most of the links referenced are either gone or outdated. I have also looked into Sharekit (http://getsharekit.com) as this would do the posting to Twitter automatically it seems, however Sharekit is deprecated.
Ideally, I would like the user to be able to take their photo (I have this) give it a caption, etc WITHIN THE APP then when they press a button it more or less "silently" posts to Twitter WITH the hashtag that I will have set in the app. I am unsure as to how to accomplish this.
What is the best way/approach to posting an image to Twitter via Swift? The hashtag bit seems to be the more difficult step - how can I "force" a hashtag on the user's post?
What you're probably looking for is the Social framework and SLComposeViewController.
Using the setInitialText(_:) method you can add text to the tweet, though this doesn't really force anything, as the user still has the possibility to edit the tweet before publishing, and it doesn't really work "silently" either.
Posting an image is done with the addImage(_:) method.
I have video and photo sharing working fine in an iOS app using UIActivityViewController.
Now I want to upgrade it so that the app posts a custom OpenGraph story to the timeline. Something like "User posted Video from MySuperApp".
I've got the all the iOS side written, and I've got a Facebook app created and configured in the project, login, etc.
I'm a bit frustrated by the rest of the documentation, though:
The submission guidelines speak about a "user generated photos" permission that doesn't seem to be available anywhere in the app settings, or anywhere else in the documentation. Is that still required? Is there a similar permission for videos?
It says "Photos must be original and can only be those taken with a camera by the person who is publishing them". The app allows adding annotations/drawings on top of a photo. Does that still count as "original"? And I guess the normal image controls allow selecting images from an album, so I have no way to enforce this, do I? (Other than writing a completely custom camera control, I guess...)
The API allows to "stage" a photo for a story. Is it possible to stage a video, or do I need to upload it externally? Can I refer to a video in a user's album in a story?
Is it possible to use FBDialogs to post a story about a video, or do I need to write my own?
Update:
Current status: I wrote my own UIActivity to share on Facebook and my own activity view controller.
Making a custom story about a photo is straightforward, and covered by documentation and examples, but to summarize:
stage photo, returns url
create object, returns id
create action (returns id)
Make sure you set "explicitly_shared" to true, so the action appears in the timeline. It is a good idea to follow their recommendations for error handling as well, otherwise it is a pain to debug.
I am not further with videos, though. Uploading a video is easy ([FBRequest requestForUploadVideo]), but that returns an id. So far I have not been able to use this id in either an object or an action. Querying the graph API for that id doesn't return any information. The video appears on the timeline by itself as well.
I'm tempted to just ditch the custom story about the video.
Update:
Okay, based on the feedback here and on the Facebook group I have to assume that it is not possible to upload and share a video as part of a story. I'm going to strip the feature down to just upload the video to the album.
I am using twitter photo card(its's approved) for my application. When I am trying to post large size(for ex: 540X810 in px ) it displays 'View photo' link on Twitter without displaying image. How do I solve this?
In Twitter if we post the same image directly it shows at least half the image then displays 'View photo' link below.
Vamshichalla, you've identified a significant issue with implementing the Photo Card on twitter; the Photo Card will not show your image in an expanded view if you are hosting it on your own server. This issue came up in the Twitter forums where employees explained that photos will be hidden in the timeline unless they originate from twitter's servers (typically pbs.twimg.com).
There are two solutions to fix the hidden Photo Card photo in timeline.
Use the Twitter API
One option is using the Twitter API to upload an image. This seems like the route you took as of Sep 29 2014.
Upload Photo Twitter's Compose & Find the src tag
A second option is uploading your images using twitter's standard photo upload tool. That process is described here where you compose a tweet and upload images to your account. The final step is to make note of the source address of these images on the twitter server. You can then use this src in your card so the image will appear expanded in the timeline. Please see the Photo Card docs if there are questions about setting up the card meta-data itself.
Summary
Discovering the need to host your images on Twitter's servers is not well publicized as of the time of this writing. The solution is to upload the image to Twitter's servers. I hope this answer saves other people valuable time.
PS - Organizations that have an advertising relationship with Twitter may not have to follow these steps.
Other Troubleshooting (if your image doesn't show at all)
Please note that there are other issues that could be preventing your image from showing at all which are covered in Twitter's troubleshooting guide. These mainly involve if your hosted address has not yet requested approval. Use the Validator Tool on your card for that -- after preview if it fails the authentication requirement it gives you an option to request approval. The other common issue would be if you have a robots.txt (a file that is used to tell web crawlers where to look for meta-data) that is telling the Twitter crawler to stay away from your images.
In my iOS application, I am trying to implement Facebook but am running into a problem. I currently have the user logging in as well as I have implemented the friend picker. I am looking to now have it so when the user taps a friend it will show their status(last post in their feed. e.g.."In NYC on broadway!"). I did a lot of research online but am getting very confused. If someone could point me to good tutorial or could just explain this that would be great. I believe I have to use open graph but other then Facebook's tutorials I can't find any. Are there any tutorials other than on FB?
You can access a user's feed by calling /<userId>/feed (https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/?method=GET&path=me%2Ffeed). Then, look for the first element on data array where "type": "status".
I think that the answer you're looking for is here, with the exception that you'll basically (I assume) display a list of friends with their profile pic. When clicking on the profile pic the user will see their status? Or you could try to do it all in once (friend name, pic, friend's last status). The facebook developers url they refer to in that post is here
I am using the new 3.1 Facebook SDK for iphone. I would like a user of my app to be able to choose a photo from his iphone and upload it to a Facebook page's album(this user is not an admin of this page).
if this is not possible i would like the user to be able to post a picture to the album feed.
also, which permissions i need to ask the user to do this?
There is currently a bug in the Facebook api which has yet to be fixed for at least the last year, that when you try to upload a photo to a page, it uploads it to the users stream.
I have been following this bug report for a long time, and does not seem like Facebook is going to do anything about it. this is the current answer for the question. will update if anything changes.