how to make a google plus post with api request?
I'm using GooglePlus.framework but the dialog should not appear when sharing
I believe you actually have the library working correctly. The dialog appears because a user must consent to share before content appears in the Google+ activity stream.
What you're trying to do is a frequently requested feature, please star the issue tracker here and suggest the best way to make writing to a user's activity stream awesome.
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I have checked the API but it allows to post the URL not the image?
From what I've read on the internet the Google+ API (https://developers.google.com/+/mobile/ios/) currently does not allow for an upload like that.
Instead some people have been using the Picasa Web SDK (https://developers.google.com/picasa-web/) since it is what powers Google+'s images.
Currently, it is not possible to write to a user's Stream in any form. However, you can make this feature request in our Issue Tracker, which you can find at https://developers.google.com/+/support.
Edit: Google+ History was deprecated on February 26, 2013
Checkout the Google+ History developer preview.
The History API allows you to record different types (docs) of user interactions.
For now these interactions only show up in the History tab (along with all other Google activities for that account). From there the user is able to share to it's timeline.
This is a developer preview, and it's probably not a good idea to go live with an app that uses this. But it gives you the opportunity to start developing for the future. I can imagine a user has a future option to autopost certain types of history to it's timeline.
I'm going to create a page which will download user's activity and save it in an .xml file because my iphone app needs to process it. The problem is that I cannot prompt the user for login-password... so I was wondering if there is a sort of permanent key that I can use to access into linkedin and gplus?
Thank you.
Google+
I can field the Google+ part of your question :)
You can access your users' public activity using the REST API's activity list method. To identify who they are you'll need to send them through an OAuth flow during which they will authorize you to know who they are on Google+.
The best way to get started doing server side OAuth flows in Google+ is to grab one of the starter projects and go through the included readme. That will give you a working project to copy code out of, or develop upon.
I'd include a code sample to show you how it works, but I don't know what would best apply to your back end :)
Linkedin
I'm far from an expert on their APIs, but it looks like the flow would be similar using OAuth.
I'm starting development of a social app (oxymoron? :p) and wish to implement the Facebook api, however, I want to make use of native iPhone UI (i.e. text fields and buttons) to post stories.
I know it's against their policy to make custom login screens, and I won't do that. Just wish to make my own UI for posting stories and etc.
It kind of breaks my app idea if I can't do this, so really hoping there's a solution.
The dev pages on FB didn't prove much help.
Yes this can be done. Check the samples on the Facebook iOS SDK. You can prompt the user for the status to be sent, and then post this to /me/feed as per their API documentation. You will just need to have the user authenticate with your application first and prompt for publish_stream extended permission.
I am an iOS developer and I am writing an app which needs to take statuses from my Facebook page and and display them in my app.
Does the Facebook API support that?
If it does, can anyone give a link for some tutorials or explain how can I make this?
I know that API supports an RSS feed but i don't found how to feed my statuses.
If you're using a Facebook page, you can easily use the graph API to query for posts made by that page. For example, for Starbucks:
http://graph.facebook.com/Starbucks/posts
You can simply load this in your browser to see the format the data comes back in, and all that's needed to access this data is a simple HTTP request. You can replace Starbucks with your Page's ID or username to get your Page's posts. These come back in JSON, which should be fairly easy to handle on your end.
Yes, the Facebook Graph API allows you to access your profile and extract any information you'd like from it.
I want to connect my app to Facebook in order to post on the user's wall. I want the user to click to post a message on his Wall, the pop-up of the js SDK should appear, he would login and authorize and get redirected to the home page as the pop-up disappears.
I was trying the fb_graph gem but had some hard troubles and I want to know: Is there a simpler way to do it?
Note that I don't want to make the user able to login in my app with Facebook, just post to his wall.
As Facebook does not offer any Ruby API, you will have to choose between using the JS SDK or implementing a Facebook share link.
If you only want to post in the user's wall, I recommend the second option because of ease and nature. You can customize the content of the post this way.
If you decide to go the JS way, you will have to:
Create a FB app.
Include FB SDK into your page.
Initialize the SDK with your app settings.
Ask for permissions to the user in order to post into her wall.
Assign a button to a function where you check for login. If she's already logged, show a window to post into the wall (FB popup or your own form, as the iframe dialogs are only available inside Facebook pages).
There is another alternative to step 5 by using Graph API and an access token, but it's a little bit more complicated and I don't recommend it if you are new to FB development.
I think, essentially, it's all or nothing when it comes to Facebook authentication. You're asking for permission to take over the user's identity and post on their Facebook wall - there will definitely be some kind of authentication and user approval. It's not a totally trivial process.
I'm sure you've looked already, but if you are OK using any of the social plugins that Facebook offers (http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/), that might be an easier option to achieve what you're looking for.
If not, you'll have to gain a user's permission and post on the wall the way Facebook describes on their site. There's another gem, called Koala (https://github.com/arsduo/koala) that is pretty easy to use as well, but you can also take a look through the fb_graph documentation and see which pieces of code are applicable to your needs and duplicate that functionality.
The best source of information is on Facebook's site (http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/), where they describe the process in detail:
You can publish to the Facebook graph by issuing HTTP POST requests to the appropriate connection URLs, using an user access token or an app access token (for Open Graph Pages).
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Most write operations require extended permissions for the active user. See the authentication guide for details on how you can request extended permissions from the user during the authentication step.
The first time I looked at this stuff I was totally overwhelmed, but play around with it and it will make a lot more sense.
I just saw #manuelpedrera 's answer, and that's a good step-by-step guide. Short answer: there's no shortcut.
Koala is a Facebook library for Ruby, supporting the Graph API (including the batch requests and photo uploads), the REST API, realtime updates, test users, and OAuth validation.
Take a look at Koala gem: https://github.com/arsduo/koala