Does anyone know of a good Rails 3 compatible gem or plugin that support the Facebook API (rather Graph API but old REST is ok too)? Mostly for getting profile picture, info, friends and posting on wall.
I am looking for something that seems to be maintained well so I know I can count on it in the future as well.
Koala :- A lightweight, flexible library for Facebook with support for OAuth authentication, the Graph and REST API's, real time updates, and test users.
https://github.com/arsduo/koala
OAuth2
http://intridea.com/2010/4/22/oauth2-gem-just-in-time-for-facebook-graph
http://github.com/intridea/oauth2
I found Mini_fb as quite good one. Try it.
Well written, well maintained (as at time of posting) https://github.com/nov/fb_graph
Related
I wonder if it's still possible to use the Search API on client side using an AJAX call, C# would be fine too, but so far I'm finding a lot of talk about this but no code sample or any good instructions how this can be done,
Some sites like these are doing it but obviously this got way more complicated to do than before
I don't see any practice examples on https://dev.twitter.com/rest/public/search
Any suggestions?
As you've discovered, Twitter has turned off the sharecount API - see https://twittercommunity.com/t/a-new-design-for-tweet-and-follow-buttons/52791/5 and https://blog.twitter.com/developer/en_us/a/2015/hard-decisions-for-a-sustainable-platform.html
There are some alternatives like https://opensharecount.com/
That works by continually searching the Twitter API and counting up all the shares that it sees.
Integrating facebook,twitter and google plus into another web app, so that the posts in that app are posted write away as status in facebook,tweets in twitter and status in google plus.I am developing this using ruby on rails.I searched a lot about this but didn't find anything which would work for me.Can post some links or ideas which would be helpful for this.
For Facebook I must suggest you to use Koala Gem...
For Twitter
Twitter
https://twitter.com/about/resources/buttons
A twitter button can be easily generated here and placed on your web site..Its working great. You can even customize everything in twitter.. Its so user friendly.
For Google plus
Google Plus
I am just working on Google plus..Facing some difficulties as its having so many restrictions.
Still I would Like to Share a link you can follow that..
How to share content from our site to google plus
I hope it will work fine...
I'd suggest to use Koala ( https://github.com/arsduo/koala/wiki ) to interface with Facebook. It's by far the best maintained fb library out there.
Otherwise, you should learn one thing or two about OAuth2:
https://github.com/intridea/oauth2
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/
https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OAuth2
Use https://github.com/sferik/twitter to interact with twitter.
For google, I've found that implementing the XML chat manually is easier than using any existing API wrapper. To convert XML responses into data, you an use a combination of the Response#parsed method of oauth2 gem and Array.wrap of ActiveSupport (there is no way for an XML parser to tell a single node to a possibly repeated node (so an array) that appears just once, avery big drawback of XML in my point of view)
Or you can directly ask google for JSON, so you already have the data correctly structured.
And, as #brendan-benson very correctly says, do only API calls in background workers, never in your normal request/responses cycle.
There are plenty of gems available to access these APIs:
Twitter API Wrapper
Facebook API Wrapper
Google Plus API Wrapper
Since APIs are flaky, it's best to use a queueing system like resque to queue the calls in Post#after_create, and then have a resque worker execute the call asynchronously.
I have searched on net for social networking integration in iOS projects (For example: Facebook, Twitter, etc)
I found there are also SDKs available for particulars and some OpenSource projects/frameworks are also available for the same which combines all into one like (ShareKit).
What is the difference in those two? Which one is better to use? Is there any problem to upload an app on AppStore which is using ShareKit framework/code?
Thanks in advance.
Mrunal
If you are using ARC in your project ShareKit is a big waste of time.
Twitter can be added very easily using the Twitter framework and TWTweetComposeViewController. Not sure about any others.
#mrunal check Socialize out: http://www.GetSocialize.com and see what you think. Full feautre list at http://go.GetSocialize.com/features
DROdio
If you are only looking to use Twitter and Facebook, then it is simple enough to just use their API and implement it in your code.
If you are new to development or want to use more (Delicious, Tumblr, Read It Later, Bit.ly, Mail), then I would highly recommend using ShareKit. It allows for sharing of text, URLs and even images. It takes less than an hour to setup even when using ARC and comes with a sample app to play around with. It is also easy to update when more features are added or the API of one the sites changes.
I'm able to create an event via the Facebook Graph API but I have yet to see a way in which to invite users to that event.
My fallback is to simply use the old REST API but sooner or later that will be phased out so I wanted to see if anyone had any suggestions.
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Additional side question:
While using the REST API (or possibly even the Graph API) I have not found a way to invite guests who are not on Facebook. Is there a way to do this?
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Thanks in advance for your help.
The bad news is that I think you're stuck with the REST API, at least I couldn't find another way (see http://bugs.developers.facebook.net/show_bug.cgi?id=10070 if you haven't already). The good news is that there's still so much functionality missing from the graph API that I'm pretty sure Facebook isn't going to be phasing it out any time soon. Very frustrating though...
can I use the JavaScript SDK to call the old REST API method ?
JS SDK
I'm using Twitter's OAuth for my app (DroidIn)
To my dismay I can't find any way to track who and how often is using the app. Searching Twitter for "sent from DroidIn" does not yield any results. I suppose I can call some sort of counter app from my code but that doesn't seem to be fair to my users. Any ideas or suggestions?
It seems that yet again I have to answer my own question. After some investigation and feedback from question posted on Google Twitter developer group it seems that for now there are no stats easily accessible or available. Said that I found 2 interesting things:
You can search Twitter using source:yourapp switch. For example you can try this query
android source:API
There is very exciting streaming API from Twitter. I have a short write-up in my dev blog.
But if you want some actual stats there's no other choice today but implement it as part of your app. There's one more possibility if you have some sort of web-based interface you may want to use Google Analytics to trigger some Google javascript while submitting the update. I'm trying that right now and may end up with article in the blog