Since the Twitter Framework handles the login authentication, does that mean I can freely post a tweets to the user's wall?
Since logging into twitter through the settings page gives permission access to all games, what if some games abuse it and spam a user's twitter page? If the user gets spammed and wants to block only that game, is that possible?
My game will be doing automatic posts whenever a user accomplishes something, should I be asking for permission every time before posting a tweet? or should I simply post a tweet and hope it's not seen as spam?
You can show the tweet dialog to the user, and that would post it for you. It is fairly easy to do this, here is a great tutorial for how:
http://www.raywenderlich.com/21558/beginning-twitter-tutorial-updated-for-ios-6
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I want to get list of my friends from Facebook who are not users of my app, and be able to invite them.
Using FBWebDialogs I can pick users, but I'm wondering how foursquare did it?
Screenshot:
There is option of frictionless requests.
On Facebook developer site they mentioned in section of Invites and Requests
We touched on a scenario where users exchange requests back and forth. If this scenario is typical in your game, it can be a bad user experience to force them through the request dialog every time they want to send a request. The solution for this is frictionless requests.
Frictionless requests let users send requests to friends from an app without having to click on a pop-up confirmation dialog. When sending a request to a friend, a user can authorize the app to send subsequent requests to the same friend without another dialog. This streamlines the process of sharing with friends.
For more reference see Facebook Invites and Requests
You are asking two questions here:
How to invite Facebook friends without web dialogs?
Unfortunately, the web dialogs you are referring to are the best way to send invites to friends. There was a time when we had to resort to ugly hacks just to get this functionality in applications. Facebook added this functionality to iOS SDK after developers created bug reports and were literally behind them.
Get a list of friends who are not using the app and invite them
Foursquare IMO is not using the requests API. What they do is, whenever somebody links their Facebook account to their Foursquare account they make a note of the users friends who are using/not using the app. This is possible if the user grants the app permissions.
Then in the invite screen, they simply build a UITableView with list of friends who they think are not using the app. When you tap Invite they will just send an email invitation and not the Facebook request you are referring to.
I think FourSquare syncing the user's friend list(friend ids) to its own server.. Then after they are checking it to create the custom interface like the screen shot you shared.
Maybe I didn't get the question right, but from what I know after you tap the invite button on Foursquare the Facebook invite dialog (apprequest) will pop up.
In general this dialog will let you select friends if you didn't specify any friends ids before presenting it, or show you the selected friends like in Foursquare example.
There is an API to get your FB friends, so it's possible for your server to check witch of then already has the app...
I've been researching this for a while and the main solution I have found is frictionless requests, as Rahul Patel noted. You can do a direct request to the graph API and see who has your app installed.
From there you could fairly easily implement any sort of filtering. For example, using the Friend Picker UI Control and implementing the method friendPickerViewController:shouldIncludeUser: and checking against a list of facebook ids who are not on the app that you cache somewhere else in your application and actively update it (for example in a simple core data model that is updated when appDidFinishLaunching), returning no if the user is not displayed. This would only allow users to select individuals who are not on the app, and then you could send a request to them under the hood with frictionless requests.
I do think that it is not a great idea to spam people, however, without at least allowing them to check the names of their friends, or see who they are.
I've read over some of the developer material and have not seen a way to have an application send facebook users personalized wall posts. For example, FB users who likes "Mustangs" could receive a post from my application when there is news specifcally about Mustangs. However, FB users who didn't select Mustangs would not receive the post. Is there a way to do this on the FB platform for applications?
FYI - The only success I have had is sending a post to a user which appears to have been sent from the user as if the user is posting to themselves. Only upon close inspection can one find the text "via application xyz" next to the post time.
Thanks for taking the time to read and respond.
Yes, you can do this with any of the frameworks. See https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sdks/ Also study up on the Graph API (pay attention to the from attribute of a feed item, testing it out using the graph API Exporer: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer
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).
and
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
I need to know as to how to implement oAuth in an iphone application.
I have already gone through lot many posts but none of them shows as to How to retrieve tweets from a user profile (like we access facebook wallposts). I tried using an example named bengottlieb/Twitter-OAuth-iPhone but all it does is show the Login prompt and posts a sample Twit at my Twitter profile.
I need to make an application where
the user can view twits for a particular page (same as accessing the wall post for a Page)
Post tweets that will appear on his profile or if possible then also at the profile page for given ID
I was able to fetch the tweets for a particular id using http://search.twitter.com/search.json?ID but may be due to closing of Basic authentication it does not return to me tweets older than a specific time period.
The Twitter search API is not meant to retrieve the tweets from one particular user, even though it does seem to work (up to a certain point back in time). As far as I know the search API does not need authentication, so you're not in trouble regarding the deprecation of Basic authentication there.
To retrieve the tweets for a user, you need to retrieve their timeline. Be sure to use OAuth authentication, as indeed Basic authentication no longer works now.
Check out http://dev.twitter.com/ for more information. The API is documented quite well. You mention basic authentication, so perhaps you could start with http://dev.twitter.com/pages/basic_to_oauth to get you going?
I have a site that allows a user to login using their facebook login id through a RPX system. When the user posts a comment in my site, I want it to automatically post the comment on their facebook wall too. How can I do this using Rails?
I've been learning the facebooker plugin for a couple of days and still can't figure out how to do it.
Are there any easy ways to do this? I got the user's facebook email and id from rpx and just want to post something on their news feed/wall, it is just this simple and it already caused me a headache on how to solve this.
Thanks
Ah, Facebook. You're in for some fun.
I'm not sure how RPX works. I know it abstracts the details so it can support multiple social networks.
I've gotten this working using standard Facebook Connect (not RPX). You need to ask the user for the status_update extended permission. Once you get that, you can post status updates with Users.setStatus.
I recommend looking into the RPX documentation to see if they have something similar.
If you will create an RSS feed for each user, that you will be able to use Flog Blog - Facebook RSS service.
It's just a thought. Try it. might work...