I've read that it is possible to access Facebook Insights programmatically:
The Graph API provides programmatic access to all of this data so you
can integrate Platform data into your own, custom analytics systems.
I have two questions, though:
Is it possible to access data from a domain, using Facebook Insights
for domains?
How to get data from a public URL? I've wrote this small script that returns the number of shares for a given URL without using data from Facebook Insights for domains, but how do I get all possible information from a given URL (e.g. who shared it, who liked it, who commented, etc)? Is this even possible?
To get insights for a domain, get the read_insights permission, then GET
https://graph.facebook.com/insights?domain=example.com&access_token=TOKEN
To get insights for a particular URL on your domain, GET
https://graph.facebook.com/?id=YOUR_URL&access_token=TOKEN
Not all of the data you want is available - for example, you can't get the UIDs of the users who shared and liked your URL, but you can get the count.
If you have the comments plugin embedded on your URL, you can get the UIDs of the users who have commented on your URL as comments in the plugin are always public.
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I am using the Survey Monkey api to get the url's of surveys I have created which allows me to display surveys from within my application. To do this I have to send my key and authorization with the request.
What concerns me is that Survey Monkey has an api 'create_flow' that allows surveys to be created. Using fiddler I can see my requests including the key and authorization token. As far as I can see, this means that anyone could use this information to access the api and create a new survey on my account, which I do not want.
Is there any way to stop someone from creating new surveys using the API and the auth token? I'm not really bothered about people getting access to the survey details or Uri's as all they can do is post junk survey results that only I will see, but I absolutely don't want anyone else to be able to create a survey that will be presented to all my users with potential malicious text.
It is not possible to make an account read-only.
So if I'm understanding correctly, you're shipping an application which contains your api_key and access token?
This is very much not recommended - the access token is equivalent to your account password, it gives full access to your account.
If you want a way to dynamically list your surveys, the best way to do it is create a proxy web app / API you host yourself. When someone hits that address, it uses the access token / api key you've stored on your box and grabs the list of surveys and then returns it to your app. This is the only safe way to do this.
Using MVC4, I would like to get the recent Tweets (3) of user's without having to request access from them, because that is a pain for the user. This is also because a user may be viewing another user and I would also like to display their Tweets.
This was fairly simple with Twitter API v1:
$.ajax({
url: 'https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?count=3&screen_name=' + twitterUser,
...
});
..but its deprecated and will stop working in about two months from now.
I'm new to Oauth and have struggled to find any good material on how to get a user's Tweets, but I believe the process is a lot more complicated now with the Twitter API v1.1? Ideally, I'd like to achieve everthing in the front end, but think that I now need to do some authentication server side and will have to use MVC?
In order to get any user's Tweets, I was thinking that I could create a Twitter account for my application and use that to get anyone's Tweets, as long as they are not protected.
Does anyone know of any good libraries that I can use to achieve this, or is the out of the box MVC4 Oauth stuff alone enough to do the job?
Any suggestions of where to start, and especially examples would be greatly appreciated.
To use API 1.1, you have to have a Twitter account and a Twitter application and then use OAUTH to authenticate your rate limited requests using GET statuses/show/:id. The only alternative I know is RSS which both Twitter & Facebook have kiiled, briught back and threatened to kill again:
http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name={USERNAME}
I decided to use Linq2Twitter, as this makes use of the V1.1 API.
An MVCDemo example of Linq2Twitter stores the authorised credentials in a SessionStateCredentials object, but I can store the object in cache and persist the authorisation for all users, meaning they won't have to authorise anything. Provided that a user's Tweets aren't protected, the Tweet's for any user should be retrievable this way.
For administrative purpose, especially the deprovisioning process, it'll be useful to know if a user has shared any of his resources (Docs, files etc.) with other users.
Any tips or code that could solve this task?.
You can check what permissions are given to users toward a file by using this drive.permissions.list request:
GET https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v2/files/{fileId}/permissions
The response gives you information about what users are authorized to interact with the file, including user's id, name, role, type ... that you can choose to store in your database.
You can test this by using Google API Explorer
Basically what I'd like to do is request a users public timeline (including retweets) without having to use authentication, but with rate limiting applied to my application and not the IP.
I want to run this request (for several different screen names):
http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=stephenfry&include_rts=1&trim_user=1
against the API, but I'm behind a proxy/firewall that basically causes thousands of users to share the same IP which means that my ip is almost always rate limited. Is it possible to insert my API key into the request somehow (header, part of the query string) and have rate limiting on it and not the ip?
I really don't want to go through the full OAuth authentication mechanism for each user as this would require their interaction and I only wish to read their public feed.
I have implemented local caching for the tweets so it will at most make 4 requests per hour/username, but this does me little good when the ip is rate limited from the start.
Can this be done and if so how would I do it?
Edit: I should add that using the Search API is not possible as it will not return any tweets for some of the users (tweets are too old).
There is no form of application-only identity on the Twitter API. To make an authenticated request, you must have a user context. If your integration is purely server-side, you could utilize a single access token representing your own account and make signed, authenticated requests that way. I would not recommend any kind of hard coded tokens in a client-side or distributed environment. You may want to take a look at what's possible using the Streaming API and it's follow filter -- allowing you to stream public tweets by specific users in real time.
I am trying to implement two pieces of functionality to my ASP.NET MVC 3 applications.
I would like the ability for the user to use Twitter to authenticate on my web site. I would also like to be able to store the users name and email in my database upon successful login.
I would like to post to the users twitter feed once a certain event occurs.
Are there any open source libraries that can handle both tasks out there?
Thanks
To enable logging in with Twitter credentials on your site, use the Sign in with Twitter flow. If the user is already authenticated, it's a one click operation. The doc I linked has a flowchart and description of the process, and this answer has a bit more detail.
Once your user has signed in via Twitter, you can easily get the user's screen_name, however there is no facility to obtain the user's email from Twitter.
On the Twitter framework front, I recommend Twitterizer. I like the consistency and ease-of-use of the framework, and coverage of- and parity with- the Twitter APIs. I've personally used it on multiple implementations, and have had no issues that tied back directly to the library.
In order to use Sign in with Twitter, you'll need to use the BuildAuthorizationUri(string requestToken, bool authenticate) method overload of the OAuthUtility class, passing true as the second parameter.
Also, Ricky Smith (the Twitterizer lead dev) is active on SO, and anything tagged with twitterizer seems to get pretty prompt attention (meaning I can't answer them faster than Ricky can. ;)
Finally, posting a status to a user's timeline is pretty trivial with Twitterizer once the OAuth tokens have been obtained (simplified example from the Twitterizer site follows):
var tokens = new OAuthTokens();
tokens.AccessToken = "XXX";
tokens.AccessTokenSecret = "XXX";
tokens.ConsumerKey = "XXX";
tokens.ConsumerSecret = "XXX";
TwitterResponse<TwitterStatus> tweetResponse = TwitterStatus.Update(tokens, "Hello, #Twitterizer");
I would think that either of the following would be able to handle both your tasks:
TweetSharp
RestSharp
Also consider...
Twitterizer
or
TwitterVB