I've succeeded at accessing a Page's insights via:
https://graph.facebook.com/{pageID}/insights
I've even managed to limit the response with this tag:
{pageID}/insights/page_fans/lifetime
... however, this query doesn't seem to work (even though the data is present in the base /insights response):
https://graph.facebook.com/{pageID}/insights/page_posts_impressions/week
... it returns no data. What am I doing wrong? Do I need different app rights? (I'm currently using scope=read_insights,offline_access,read_stream,manage_pages.) It seems expensive to request the entire insights response when I only need a single element.
thanks guys.
You can use FQL to target just the item you're interested in. See: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/insights/
SELECT metric, value
FROM insights
WHERE object_id=111605505520003
AND metric='page_like_adds'
AND end_time=1272351600
AND period=86400
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Can anyone help with using the Twitter API to upload a profile banner using the account/update_profile_banner? I have been searching on Google for so long and can't find any solution, thanks in advance
Based on https://gist.github.com/hayesdavis/97756
It looks like the docs are misleading, unless you are uploading a really small image, I expect it is critical to use multi part form data instead of encoding data in the query params.
Post your example code though, it's bad stackoverflow form to just say it doesn't work without showing the code and errors you are getting.
I am currently doing some work with the Canvas LMS REST API and have run into an issue when trying to retrieve a list of all enrollment terms defined in the system. When viewing the terms in the online system, I can see all the terms that have been created, from the first ones up to the furthest defined semester. However, when I try to get a list of terms using
GET /api/v1/accounts/:account_id/terms
I only receive a list of 10 terms, while the rest are missing. Does anyone know what could be causing this?
Additionally, is there a difference between a Term and an EnrollmentTerm object? I only see API calls for EnrollmentTerm objects, while a Term seems to be a subset of the data contained in an EnrollmentTerm that only gets passed within a Course. Could someone explain if there is an important difference here, and what I may be missing?
Lastly, could anyone point me towards some information about error codes that are returned from an API call? For example, when I use
POST /api/v1/accounts/:account_id/terms
with some associated parameters, I get a 400 bad request response. When the parameters are incorrectly named, I get a 500 response instead. Any guidance on this matter would be very helpful.
Let me know if there is anything I can do to help clarify things. Thanks for your help!
I got into contact with Canvas developers and found out that this was caused by how they paginate their API responses. Their default cap appears to be at 10 per response, but this can be extended up to 100 by adding ?per_page=100 at the end of the query like so:
POST /api/v1/accounts/:account_id/terms?per_page=100
Additional pages can be retrieved using the URLs returned in the Link header of the response. More info on that can be found here.
An example Link header would be:
<https://<canvas>/api/v1/accounts/:account_id/terms?page=1&per_page=10>; rel="current",
<https://<canvas>/api/v1/accounts/:account_id/terms?page=2&per_page=10>; rel="next",
<https://<canvas>/api/v1/accounts/:account_id/terms?page=1&per_page=10>; rel="first",
<https://<canvas>/api/v1/accounts/:account_id/terms?page=10&per_page=10>; rel="last"
The URLs in the Link header are only included when they are relevant, so the first page will not return a "prev" link and the last page will not return a "next" link, for example.
I am using Datatables JQuery plugin 1.9 with CakePHP 2.4.
My application is an online Database interface. The database is not relatively huge. We have only 26,000 records. However, I found out that even with recursive = -1, and the use of "Containable" behavior, CakePHP is still limited to find 5000 rows only, before I get a memory exhausted error, and it even takes 5 minutes to load, in the view!
Of course, using the LIMIT option was just experimental as I need to list/paginate/search through the entire database records.
My question is, have anyone built a CakePHP application that dealt with similar number of rows or larger?? How did you do it? Any detailed documentation reference about your approach would be greatly appreciated.
I've been looking for a week for setting up the server-side processing of Datatables in CakePHP and none of the solutions/plugins suggested out there worked (e.g. cnizzdotcom's). Increasing the memory limit (up to 1 GB!) didn't help much too.
Unfortunately, if this limitation continues this will be our last time using CakePHP. But for now, it's very critical to find a solution of the problem.
you really need to display your 26k items at once on your datatables??
I'd change it and use an ajax pagination. You could still keep your datatables pagination and make an async request to cakephp (cake should return a json), in this request you'll need to pass the limit and the page (you could also pass the sort and direction) as parameters
Search the datatable's doc for ajax sources
create a view for this ajax
in this view create paginate your items using the "page", "limit", "sort" and "direction" parameters passed to the view (via GET probablly)
this view should return a json in a format that datatables could understand
But if you really need to display the 26k at once.. then ignore this answer.
Hope this helps
I've been using Google Plus HTTP API for several weeks now and I'm experiencing a strange issue.
When I try to retrieve public activities from this community: https://plus.google.com/communities/115653528125420367824, I always get 4 results, no more. I've tried increasing the maxResult parameter of the request but it doesn't change anything...
And when I use the nextPageToken to retrieve the missing activities, the "items" field of the response is empty.
You can try it yourself with the Google APIs Explorer here: https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer/#p/plus/v1/plus.activities.list?userId=115653528125420367824&collection=public you will see that only 4 activites are returned and the next page of result is empty.
This is really strange and happened recently, it used to work fine. Maybe it is caused by the fact that the content of some activities of this community contains a stringified JSON object. What do you think?
The activities methods are only supported for retrieving posts by users and Google+ Pages. They are not supported for use with Communities and should not be expected to work correctly. There is definitely no guarantee that this behavior while it might have worked or currently works in some cases today will continue to work in the future.
Graph API is not returning image("picture" attribute) for objects corresponding to community pages, which used to be returned earlier. For example this https://graph.facebook.com/178790412179919 does not have picture attribute whereas the corresponding page has an image.
Also the FQL query done on the "albums" connection for some objects does not have a "cover_pid" attribute for an album corresponding to type "profile", which again used to work earlier.
Does anybody know if anything has changed in Graph API corresponding to this in last couple of weeks (I am fairly confident it used to work earlier in the expected way). I looked through Facebook API release notes but could not find any changes corresponding to this. Please let me know if this not appropriate post for this forum.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/page/
picture is a connection, not an attribute. So ...
https://graph.facebook.com/178790412179919/picture
And as the docs say: Returns a HTTP 302 with the URL of the user's profile picture.
Kinda goofy? Yes, but it works exactly as the docs say it does. I suspect they implemented it this way so it could easily be used in an <IMG> tag.
UPDATE:
It still works via FQL. In your case:
https://api.facebook.com/method/fql.query?query=SELECT+page_id%2C+pic+FROM+page+WHERE+page_id+%3D+178790412179919&format=json
I can confirm that this PREVIOUSLY worked, but NO LONGER works. Facebook have removed the picture connection from Community Pages.
I suspect the reason is that most of these images are pulled from Wikipedia, and there was a licensing / attribution issue.
Unfortunately, Facebook is no longer a reliable source of images for entities (e.g. bands).