Currently I'm building a social media light, which blinks when there's an update on your Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/.... Now I'm looking at Instagram and I wish to know when someone liked one of my posts. The official API doesn't have this functionality. I then found that there was an unofficial version which implements more functionality of the official app. This is a version for PHP.
After looking for a while I couldn't find the API endpoint for accessing the likes feed. I think it's possible, since you can even request it in the web interface. Before I start on scraping it myself, are there other ways?
I also took a look at services like IFTTT, but the functionality isn't there either.
Currently I'm writing the app for Python, but I'm getting incredibly frustrated with the limited functionality the various social media offer. Facebook removed its notification functionality, Instagram doesn't have one and I haven't started on Twitter yet, but I get a feeling it will be a headache as well.
Instagram shutdown its Feed API a litte over a year ago that provided this functionality that IFTTT and others used.
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I have a problem that in theory should be easy, but I have been at this for days and just can't get it to work.
I have a Google account to which a few aliases are connected (The main gmail, a test thing I made a long time ago and a youtube channel). I render my videos on a cloud server and would like to then automatically upload them to this channel. I don't want to have to open the URL because this should work unattended. And by god, I can't figure it out. It's pretty baffling in how bad a state Google's official API docs are (or how dumb I am). I am using Python and Google's official client
So far, I've modified the python upload example from the python examples to incorporate service auth as described here. This alone took me way too long to figure out, I think Google's newer key format is bugged. If I run this as is, I get a "youtubeSignupRequired" error, because the main account doesn't have a youtube channel. After hours of research I found this link that pretty poorly describes the onBehalf parameters, but it seems these require a YouTube CMS account, which I don't have and I don't think I will get.
Am I missing something extremely obvious here? This seems like something that should not be hard to do at all.
It appears pyfacebook and simplefacebook are deprecated. So is the facebook e-mail service. What is the current way of accomplishing this?
https://developers.facebook.com/products/messenger/
There appears to be links to build apps integrating messenger support here.
You can try to utilize the APIs there, since several apps seem integrated using it, I assume it is unlikely to change drastically anytime soon.
Here is a link I found which demonstrates the API for how to send messages using facebook's send API https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/reference/send-dialog The tutorial is for Javascript but you might be able to adapt it to work for Python as well.
Here's the build for an app called Facebook Autoresponder, you might be able to reverse engineer their process from looking at it : http://sourceforge.net/projects/facebook-autoresponder/files/?source=navbar
I am making a web application that will monitor the amount of members and discussions in each one of the groups listed here (http://www.codecademy.com/groups#web) and display that information in nice graphs.
However, as you have already seen, it looks like I need to create an account and login with it.
Having in mind that my project is using Python for the server side, how do I do it? Which API is easier? (Google, FB or twitter?)
I would really love if you could also provide some examples because I am really new at this (and at Python too).
The official wrapper around the Twitter API for Python is this one. I used it and it's very easy. You should first read this page and also register an application to get OAuth keys.
Example:
import twitter
# Remember to put these values
api = twitter.Api(consumer_key="",
consumer_secret="",
access_token_key="",
access_token_secret="")
# Get your timeline
print api.GetHomeTimeline()
Hope it helps.
I've been looking for a method to get a steam users status. This includes things like the game they're playing, if they're online or if they're offline. I was originally going to scrape the page, but I figured there must be an easier way to do it.
I looked around for pages which might be json of the users current status, perhaps even an API. But I haven't found anything yet.
Start with the Steam Web API. I think you are looking to work with GetPlayerSummaries.
Did you see:
http://steamcommunity.com/dev
Steam Web API Documentation
Valve provides these APIs so website developers can use data from
Steam in new and interesting ways. They allow developers to query
Steam for information that they can present on their own sites. At the
moment the only APIs we offer provide item data for Team Fortress 2,
but this list will grow over time.
I've looked at a lot of questions and libs and didn't found exactly what I wanted. Here's the thing, I'm developing an application in python for a user to get all sorts of things from social networks accounts. I'm having trouble with facebook. I would like, if possible, a step-by-step tutorial on the code and libs to use to get a user's information, from posts to photos information (with the user's login information, and how to do it, because I've had a lot of problem with authentication).
Thank you
I strongly encourage you to use Facebook's own APIs.
First of all, check out documentation on Facebook's Graph API https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/. If you are not familiar with JSON, DO read a tutorial on it (for instance http://secretgeek.net/json_3mins.asp).
Once you grasp the concepts, start using this API. For Python, there are at several alternatives:
facebook/python-sdk https://github.com/facebook/python-sdk
pyFaceGraph https://github.com/iplatform/pyFaceGraph/
It is also semitrivial to write a simple HTTP client that uses the graph API
I would suggest you to check out the Python libraries, try out the examples in their documentation and see if they are working and do the stuff you need.
Only as a last resort, would I write a scraper and try to extract data with screenscraping (it is much more painful and breaks more easily).
I have not used this with Facebook, but in the past when I had to scrape a site that required login I used Mechanize to handle the login and scraping and Beautiful Soup to parse the resulting HTML.