I am in the process of integrating my webapp with Basecamp 2 (solved, see edit) and 3, and I want to get all of the comments for a todo item for the authorized user.
First I make a call to https://launchpad.37signals.com/authorization.json which returns json that includes the user's identity, something like {"identity":{"id":99999999, ..... }}.
Then I make a call to the URL to get the comments for the item in question and go through them one by one matching the identity.id from above (99999999) with the creator.id for the comment.
The problem is, they don't match! I am working with one Basecamp2 project and one Basecamp3 project. When testing, using comments I wrote, Basecamp2 and Basecamp3 each have different values for creator.id (even though I wrote both comments!), and neither of them match the identity.id from authorization.json.
How do I link them to find which comments were made by the authorized user
Thanks
EDIT: I figured it out for Basecamp2 - I need to get /people.json which has a mapping from the identity_id of each user to the id for that user in that project. Still not sure how to do it for Basecamp3, which does not include identity_id in people.json!
The correct way to do this for Basecamp2 is to get:
https://basecamp.com/{project_id}/api/v1/people/me.json - the id node contains the id of the authorized user for project {project_id}.
for Basecamp3:
https://3.basecampapi.com/{project_id}/my/profile.json - the id node contains the id of the authorized user for project {project_id}.
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According to v3 docs I should be able to add a contact to a list using the Contact API but I am at a loss on how to do so as I see nothing list related under Contacts.
How do I add a contact to a list (not through automations) using version 3 of the API? Or are the docs in error?
The v3 docs have been updated (Lists documentation) and they no longer read that you can add a contact to a list through the API. ActiveCampaign Lists documentation screenshot
EDIT: you can add a contact to a list using the v1 contact_sync (contact_sync documentation)
SECOND EDIT: you can now add a contact to a list and/or change their subscription status to a given list through the v3 API!
(update list status for a contact documentation)
The above is no longer true. You can add a contact using the Create Contact endpoint.
It's basically a POST request that uses the following parameters:
E-Mail (Required)
First Name (Optional)
Last Name (Optional)
Phone (Optional)
The API v3 changed a lot though and now after you create a contact to do the following this you have to consult other endpoints. For example:
To add a contact to a list you need a POST request to the Contact Lists endpoint where you need to provide three parameters (listid, contactid, status).
If you need to assign a tag to a contact, in order to be able to create the relationship you first need to create the tag using the Create a new tag endpoint. And the use the resulting tag id with the Create Contact Tag endpoint where you combine said tag id with the contact id.
Now in order to remove that same tag the guys from Active Campaign made us work more and in order to remove a tag from a contact you don't use the contact's id and the tag's id, but rather you have to use the contact's id and the relationship id between the tag and the specific contact, that's quite a lot of steps, but I guess they wanted to make it very robuts in terms of structure.
There are many new endpoints which were actually available from around the date when you asked your question. You should check out the new API reference. It has some flaws and is not 100% complete yet, but it would be useful.
Hope this helps since it gave me some head heck... Using activecampaign php sdk when adding a contact with the sync command you can also add it to a list:
$list_id = 'thelistid';
$contact = array(
"email" => 'contactemail#doamin.com',
"p[{$list_id}]" => $list_id,
"status[{$list_id}]" => 1, // "Active" status
);
$contact_sync = $ac->api("contact/sync", $contact);
They wrote it also as examples on the repository but for some reason I didn't catch it.
I'm implementing a Compony newsfeed on a website and ran into the following problem. The LinkedIn API doesn't provide a direct URL to a company update. Looking at the LinkedIn site there are direct URL's and they're like this for example:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/1441/comments?topic=5849556347070205952&type=U&scope=1441&stype=C&a=5uHW&goback=%2Ebzo_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_1441
Trying stuff out it seems that the parameters topic, type, scope, stype and a are mandatory for the URL to work.. (goback is the only one that isn't).
Using the LinkedIn API with the Company updates call I'm able to buid the direct url, except for the a parameter. The value is always 4 (for me unexplainable) characters long.
Has anyone ever successfully build a direct URL to a company update or can someone maybe explain the a parameter or how to generate its value?
Updated to new format
You can link directly to any update (company or user) using the following url:
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:[topic_id]
You can get [topic_id] by getting the last bit of the updateKey in the api response from Linkedin. When updateKey = UPDATE-c7352-6410848097894756353, your topic_id = 6410848097894756353.
In your example that would become https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:5849556347070205952 which links directly to the specific update. The post is too old to work with the new link format
The url used to be
https://www.linkedin.com/nhome/updates/?topic=[topic_id]
Updated thanks to the comment from #sethpollack
For anyone trying to get the topic id from the API response object (as already commented on the OP question), the topic id is the value after the last hyphen of the updateKey property, which can be used with #Daan answer:
"updateKey": "UPDATE-cXXXX-YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY"
Direct URL:
https://www.linkedin.com/nhome/updates?topic=[YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY]
Using the URL format above, get the topic_id by opening the update in its own window/tab, look at the page source code in your browser and search for the string :activity: the long number after the string is the infamous topic_id
I want to setup the following url in my MVC4 website, using the user's full name in the url:
http://www.myapp.com/profile/steve-jones
I have setup the following route in Global.asax:
routeCollection.MapRoute(
"profile", "profile/{userName}",
new { controller = "myController", action = "profile", userName = string.Empty
});
And I can take the parameter 'steve-jones' and match it to a user with matching name. My only problem though is, what if there is more than one 'Steve Jones', how can I handle this?
Does anyone know of a workaround/solution to this so that I can use a user's full name as part of the url and still be able to retrieve the correct user in the controller method?
Am I forced into including the user's id with the url (something that I do not want to appear)?
The usual way of handling this is by appending a number when creating the profiles. So if "steve-jones" is already a name in the database, then make the user's display name "steve-jones2". You basically have to insist that all profile urls are unique, which includes updating any existing database and account creation code.
Alternatively (and/or additionally), if two same names are found then have the script reroute to a disambiguation page where the user is presented with links and snippet of profile info of the many existing Steve Joneseses so they can go to the full correct profile.
Another way of handling it is by giving all user profiles an additional numeric code on the end. At my university all logins are based on name, so they give everyone pseudo-random 3-digit extensions so that they are safe as long as they don't get 1000 people with the exact same names :)
Some people might be happier being steve-jones-342 if there is no steve-jones or steve-jones1, if you're concerned.
Querying user data on Facebook Graph via the Javascript API will not return all fields.
For example, the following query:
/search?q=David Blades&type=user&fields=location,work,id,name,picture,link
Returns everything except work and location.
Does anybody know the reason why?
Because these fields are not publicly available, please refer to the User object:
Name Permission
id No access_token required
name No access_token required
...
location user_location or friends_location
You can check here:
https://labs.aweber.com/docs/code_samples/subs/create
The script to add a new subscriber to the list via api requires those two pieces info...only I cannot figure out for the life of me what those two variables are!! I've beaten through every little aspect of my Aweber Subscriber Account, AND my Aweber Labs account...and I can't find any reference to either of those variables anywhere. I've submitted some tickets to them, and haven't gotten any response yet.
Does anyone have any ideas here? I've tried my account names, my list names, to no avail!
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Okay, I've got it! You can get the values of both of these variables by dumping some other variables in the aweber api after making certain api calls.
get the account id first:
$account = $aweber->getAccount($accessKey, $accessSecret);
then vardump or print_r $account.
next we get the list id:
$account = $aweber->getAccount($accessKey, $accessSecret);
$list_url = 'https://api.aweber.com/1.0/accounts/<id>/lists';
$lists = $account->loadFromUrl($list_url);
then vardump or print_r $lists.
And you are all set! I'm so happy I figured this out, it freakin took long enough. Hopefully this saves some one a bit of time.
I too have agonized over finding the $list_ID, so went to deactivate the list, and create a new one, and "discovered" that if you hover over the Deactivate button, you get a url you can copy, and this gives both %account and %list Ids
https://www.aweber.com/users/lists/deactivate/$accountID/$lisID
like this....
https://www.aweber.com/users/lists/deactivate/123456/123456
Hopefully this will help make someone as it is a super easy solution
The proper answer is Anne Allen's one, but...
Check the return of the /accounts endpoint. It should return the same account id as you detected in the link, but I had cases they were different (strange, isn't it?). Use the account id returned by the /accounts endpoint and other endpoints to retrieve lists, subscribers, etc. will start to work. It's like if some accounts have two ids, one partially works and the other fully works.
Let me tell you how to get $list_id value... login into your AWeber account and then create a new list copy only integer value from list's name.
At first, login.
1) click Reports>Settings. Your account ID will be displayed in the box,example: ?id=XXXXX
2) click List Options>List Settings. There you will see the list ID under the name.
p.s. To add subscriber, you can use this - Automatically add into aweber list