Facebooker talk - Feb 2008 - how to post to a friends news feed using facebooker

Hi, I can post to my news feed using:

# publish to my feed (userF = my facebook user)
@userF.publish_story((s = Facebooker::Feed::Story.new; s.title =  
''joels story title''; s.body = ''joels crazy
body''; s))

# publish to a friends feed (@fsession = my facebook session)
fred_user = Facebooker::User.new(7779966751, at fsession)
fred_user.publish_story((s = Facebooker::Feed::Story.new; s.title =  
''joels just did blah blah''; s.body = ''joels crazy
body''; s))

When I do this, I get 2 stories in my feed and none in my friends feed.

any ideas?

I have seen the news about requiring a session to post to a feed, but  
I thought you could still post to your friends feeds (just not your  
friends friends).

thanks
Joel

Seem to recall that publishStory only sends to the current logged in user:

http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Feed.publishStoryToUser

i.e. can''t really send to Fred that way - I think what you really want
to use is publish_action ?

also assumes that Fred is both your friend and has the app installed..
  TemplatizedAction will send to all friends but its abt to be
depreciated..

Not sure why youre gettn two of them tho..  probably a side effect of
what youre trying do..

brez


On Feb 5, 2008 5:52 PM, Joel Nylund <jnylund at yahoo.com>
wrote:
> Hi, I can post to my news feed using:
>
> # publish to my feed (userF = my facebook user)
> @userF.publish_story((s = Facebooker::Feed::Story.new; s.title >
''joels story title''; s.body = ''joels crazy
body''; s))
>
> # publish to a friends feed (@fsession = my facebook session)
> fred_user = Facebooker::User.new(7779966751, at fsession)
> fred_user.publish_story((s = Facebooker::Feed::Story.new; s.title >
''joels just did blah blah''; s.body = ''joels crazy
body''; s))
>
> When I do this, I get 2 stories in my feed and none in my friends feed.
>
> any ideas?
>
> I have seen the news about requiring a session to post to a feed, but
> I thought you could still post to your friends feeds (just not your
> friends friends).
>
> thanks
> Joel
>
> _______________________________________________
> Facebooker-talk mailing list
> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>

Joel,
You have to use the "fake session" technique.

This is the method I use to create the session:
def fake_session
     session = Facebooker::Session.create
     session.secure_with! self.facebook_session_key,  
self.facebook_uid, 0
     session
   end

The facebook_session_key is the user''s (who you''re publishing
to)
infinite session key.

Then, any methods you call on this session look like you''re calling  
them from the other user, instead of the current user doing the action.

Now, having said that, I''m guessing you''re actually looking to
use http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Feed.publishTemplatizedAction
.
This lets you do something like "{actor} did something to {target}"  
and just specify the actor''s id and any number of target ids.

Hope that helps,
BJ

-----
BJ Clark
the science department
bjclark at scidept.com
www.scidept.com


On Feb 5, 2008, at 7:11 PM, John Bresnik wrote:
> Seem to recall that publishStory only sends to the current logged in  
> user:
>
> http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Feed.publishStoryToUser
>
> i.e. can''t really send to Fred that way - I think what you really
want
> to use is publish_action ?
>
> also assumes that Fred is both your friend and has the app installed..
>  TemplatizedAction will send to all friends but its abt to be
> depreciated..
>
> Not sure why youre gettn two of them tho..  probably a side effect of
> what youre trying do..
>
> brez
>
>
> On Feb 5, 2008 5:52 PM, Joel Nylund <jnylund at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Hi, I can post to my news feed using:
>>
>> # publish to my feed (userF = my facebook user)
>> @userF.publish_story((s = Facebooker::Feed::Story.new; s.title >>
''joels story title''; s.body = ''joels crazy
body''; s))
>>
>> # publish to a friends feed (@fsession = my facebook session)
>> fred_user = Facebooker::User.new(7779966751, at fsession)
>> fred_user.publish_story((s = Facebooker::Feed::Story.new; s.title
>> ''joels just did blah blah''; s.body = ''joels
crazy body''; s))
>>
>> When I do this, I get 2 stories in my feed and none in my friends  
>> feed.
>>
>> any ideas?
>>
>> I have seen the news about requiring a session to post to a feed, but
>> I thought you could still post to your friends feeds (just not your
>> friends friends).
>>
>> thanks
>> Joel
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Facebooker-talk mailing list
>> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>>
> _______________________________________________
> Facebooker-talk mailing list
> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
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Thanks BJ & John,

couple more questions,

Is TemplatizedAction really going away or just requiring a valid  
session (or fake one as BJ has outlined how to do)?

see http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=69

So given that, if I have a valid user that is logged in to generate a  
story in all their friends feeds, I don''t need a fake session right? I
only need this if im trying to generate news from a backend process  
that doesnt have a valid logged in user right?

So would this work (assuming I have a valid logged in user @userF:

(@userF is the current facebook user)
action = Facebooker::Feed::TemplatizedAction.new
action.actor_id = @userF.id
action.title_template = "test from {actor} did something"
action.target_ids = "comma seperated list of friend ids"
@userF.publish_templatized_action(action)

I got a response code of 1 for this but dont see the story in my  
friends account, is there a delay in posting stories?

Is there a safety setting or something that if your app is not in  
production it will not let you post to others feeds?

thanks
Joel



On Feb 5, 2008, at 9:23 PM, BJ Clark wrote:
> Joel,
> You have to use the "fake session" technique.
>
> This is the method I use to create the session:
> def fake_session
>     session = Facebooker::Session.create
>     session.secure_with! self.facebook_session_key,  
> self.facebook_uid, 0
>     session
>   end
>
> The facebook_session_key is the user''s (who you''re
publishing to)
> infinite session key.
>
> Then, any methods you call on this session look like you''re
calling
> them from the other user, instead of the current user doing the  
> action.
>
> Now, having said that, I''m guessing you''re actually
looking to use
http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Feed.publishTemplatizedAction
> .
> This lets you do something like "{actor} did something to
{target}"
> and just specify the actor''s id and any number of target ids.
>
> Hope that helps,
> BJ
>
> -----
> BJ Clark
> the science department
> bjclark at scidept.com
> www.scidept.com
>
>
> On Feb 5, 2008, at 7:11 PM, John Bresnik wrote:
>
>> Seem to recall that publishStory only sends to the current logged  
>> in user:
>>
>> http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Feed.publishStoryToUser
>>
>> i.e. can''t really send to Fred that way - I think what you
really
>> want
>> to use is publish_action ?
>>
>> also assumes that Fred is both your friend and has the app  
>> installed..
>>  TemplatizedAction will send to all friends but its abt to be
>> depreciated..
>>
>> Not sure why youre gettn two of them tho..  probably a side effect of
>> what youre trying do..
>>
>> brez
>>
>>
>> On Feb 5, 2008 5:52 PM, Joel Nylund <jnylund at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> Hi, I can post to my news feed using:
>>>
>>> # publish to my feed (userF = my facebook user)
>>> @userF.publish_story((s = Facebooker::Feed::Story.new; s.title
>>> ''joels story title''; s.body = ''joels
crazy body''; s))
>>>
>>> # publish to a friends feed (@fsession = my facebook session)
>>> fred_user = Facebooker::User.new(7779966751, at fsession)
>>> fred_user.publish_story((s = Facebooker::Feed::Story.new; s.title
>>> ''joels just did blah blah''; s.body =
''joels crazy body''; s))
>>>
>>> When I do this, I get 2 stories in my feed and none in my friends  
>>> feed.
>>>
>>> any ideas?
>>>
>>> I have seen the news about requiring a session to post to a feed,  
>>> but
>>> I thought you could still post to your friends feeds (just not your
>>> friends friends).
>>>
>>> thanks
>>> Joel
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Facebooker-talk mailing list
>>> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
>>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Facebooker-talk mailing list
>> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>
> _______________________________________________
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Publish templatized feed isn''t going away, but publish action of user
might since the templatized call makes it redundant.  Facebook changed
the rules so that only logged in active users can publish feeds.  So
you cannot publish it at a later time using someone else''s session
key.

Also, the actor_id parameter isn''t needed anymore.  You still need to
put {actor} somewhere in your title template though.  Facebook will
populate {actor} using the user who the session_key belongs to.

Shane

On Feb 5, 2008 8:53 PM, Joel Nylund <jnylund at yahoo.com>
wrote:
> Thanks BJ & John,
>
> couple more questions,
>
> Is TemplatizedAction really going away or just requiring a valid session
(or
> fake one as BJ has outlined how to do)?
>
> see http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=69
>
> So given that, if I have a valid user that is logged in to generate a story
> in all their friends feeds, I don''t need a fake session right? I
only need
> this if im trying to generate news from a backend process that doesnt have
a
> valid logged in user right?
>
> So would this work (assuming I have a valid logged in user @userF:
>
> (@userF is the current facebook user)
> action = Facebooker::Feed::TemplatizedAction.new
> action.actor_id = @userF.id
> action.title_template = "test from {actor} did something"
> action.target_ids = "comma seperated list of friend ids"
> @userF.publish_templatized_action(action)
>
> I got a response code of 1 for this but dont see the story in my friends
> account, is there a delay in posting stories?
>
> Is there a safety setting or something that if your app is not in
production
> it will not let you post to others feeds?
>
> thanks
> Joel
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Feb 5, 2008, at 9:23 PM, BJ Clark wrote:
>
> Joel,
> You have to use the "fake session" technique.
>
> This is the method I use to create the session:
> def fake_session
>     session = Facebooker::Session.create
>     session.secure_with! self.facebook_session_key, self.facebook_uid, 0
>     session
>   end
>
> The facebook_session_key is the user''s (who you''re
publishing to) infinite
> session key.
>
> Then, any methods you call on this session look like you''re
calling them
> from the other user, instead of the current user doing the action.
>
> Now, having said that, I''m guessing you''re actually
looking to use
>
http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Feed.publishTemplatizedAction.
> This lets you do something like "{actor} did something to
{target}" and just
> specify the actor''s id and any number of target ids.
>
> Hope that helps,
> BJ
>
>
> -----
> BJ Clark
> the science department
> bjclark at scidept.com
> www.scidept.com
>
>
> On Feb 5, 2008, at 7:11 PM, John Bresnik wrote:
>
> Seem to recall that publishStory only sends to the current logged in user:
>
> http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Feed.publishStoryToUser
>
> i.e. can''t really send to Fred that way - I think what you really
want
> to use is publish_action ?
>
> also assumes that Fred is both your friend and has the app installed..
>   TemplatizedAction will send to all friends but its abt to be
> depreciated..
>
> Not sure why youre gettn two of them tho..  probably a side effect of
> what youre trying do..
>
> brez
>
>
> On Feb 5, 2008 5:52 PM, Joel Nylund <jnylund at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi, I can post to my news feed using:
>
> # publish to my feed (userF = my facebook user)
> @userF.publish_story((s = Facebooker::Feed::Story.new; s.title >
''joels story title''; s.body = ''joels crazy
body''; s))
>
> # publish to a friends feed (@fsession = my facebook session)
> fred_user = Facebooker::User.new(7779966751, at fsession)
> fred_user.publish_story((s = Facebooker::Feed::Story.new; s.title >
''joels just did blah blah''; s.body = ''joels crazy
body''; s))
>
> When I do this, I get 2 stories in my feed and none in my friends feed.
>
> any ideas?
>
> I have seen the news about requiring a session to post to a feed, but
> I thought you could still post to your friends feeds (just not your
> friends friends).
>
> thanks
> Joel
>
> _______________________________________________
> Facebooker-talk mailing list
> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>
> _______________________________________________
> Facebooker-talk mailing list
> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>
> _______________________________________________
> Facebooker-talk mailing list
> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>
>


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