I have been banging my head against a wall for the last two weeks. I'm trying to set up a contact me web page for my business. Having read all the warnings about mailto, I opted to use phpmailer for this. Similarly, I decided to use XOAUTH2 for sending the mail through gmail. I found several sites, including instructions at the phpmailer github page, that should have walked me through doing this.
Here's where I run into problems. After logging into the Google developer console, creating my project, and enabling the gmail api, all of the sites that I found talk about creating my new client ID. Every single one of them tell me that I will get a simple pop-up where I click that I want to create a web application, fill in a few items, and voila, out will pop my ID. When I did this, however, I was required to complete the consent screen before I could do anything else, and these screens did not match anything that was shown on the web sites I used as a guide. I muddled through as best I could and did finally get a client ID (I think/hope).
Does anyone know of a site or sites that walk a person through this in a way that matches what the development site actually displays? Did Google recently change things and the help sites haven't caught up? Having to guess at some of this is definitely not the way to do things. I'll be testing the results in a couple of days, but won't be surprised if things don't work right. At that point, I'll probably need more help to figure out what went wrong.
Thank you for listening to my rant.
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I am developing an analytical app using NodeJS and Express and I would like to give the user the option to share the currently filtered graph along with a title and a sample description. I would like to have an option to share to Facebook, Twitter and Google +. I have done some research and I have managed to find a few libraries that were supposed to suite me. One of which was social-share (https://www.npmjs.com/package/social-share). The problem with this library is that I was unable to upload images to Facebook or Twitter, as well as the missing Google+ option.
The other library I have found is twit (https://github.com/ttezel/twit) which I still have not tried but either way it is for Twitter only.
After some time of trying to find a trivial solution, I started looking into the "build my own" option. I registered my app in the Facebook Developers console. I followed all the steps there to setup the SDK and the smple share code. The problem there was that the URL I wanted to share (http://127.0.0.1:3000/ or localhost at my case) was not "in the allowed domains for the application". I have tried a number if solutions for this error but none seemed to work. I have creadet a "Test app" under the original app in Facebook Dev Console. I have also tried creating an entirely new application for purely development purposes. (Note: in both previously stated caces I have switched the app ids obviously). I also tried the settings options for "Add platform" with "localhost" as the site URL. I have tried adding it as allowed domains and other options but I could not seem to get it to work.
What I also tried was the "Add This" option to share, leveraging the meta og: tags for image. The content is dynamically generated so I figured I should update the contents of the meta tags dynamically as well (using jQuery in my case). The problem I see there is the following: Facebook scrapes the page periodically and therefore the dynamic content from the og: tags is not fetched. Also the share button always used the information scraped from the url that I tried to share.
So after all this my questions are: Is there a trivial way in which I can have simple share buttons which the user can share the currently visible content (Highcharts graph) along with a title and text (prefilled by the app)? Is this supported for Facebook, Twitter and Google +?
Thank you in advance!
I Googled one of our sites today (gamestyling.com) and saw that the results where in Chinese. It looks like our site was hacked but I see no traces of that. When opening the site all looks normaal (no Chinese).
On further inspection it seems that Google doesn't see the website correctly:
I cannot verify in Google search console. When I use the meta tag it shows me it detected a completely different tag.
When running pagespeed insight the preview does show Chinese: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=gamestyling.com
Also, when running the site through a proxy it looks completely normal.
Any idea how I can get Google to see my site correctly or what is causing this issue?
UPDATE
I now have access to Google search console and found that someone already had access to the property (2nd user):
I cannot remove the user because it uses a meta tag that google thinks is still in the header but doesn't appear in my code. So I'm still not sure if someone is playing tricks on Google or that we've been actually hacked. Note; nothing has changed on the server itself.
UPDATE2
This article describes exactly what's going on; https://blog.sucuri.net/2015/09/malicious-google-search-console-verifications.html. I must say that's an amazing safety fault on Google's part...
I had experienced this issue on one of the site and resubmitted website for review in google webmasters. Search results in google were corrected in couple of days.
Link to previous issue: Gmail contextual gadget broken
Yesterday we received a couple of customer complaints regarding our Gmail gadget. They claimed that it had gone missing from their account. This morning, several of our employees have reported the same although, this isn't happening for everyone.
We haven't made any changes to the gadget and since it loads for some, I don't think this was caused by us.
What happens:
The window of the contextual gadget does not appear in the main Gmail interface
The window of the contextual gadget does not appear when opening an email in a new window (shift + click). This differs from when this happened previously.
We've also contacted Google and they have responded that they are looking into the issue. We've also seen that the shift-click to open an email in a new window doesn't work as a work around this time.
The last time this happened our monitoring showed that about 10% of users lost their access to the gadget per-day. We seeing a similar drop off in activity this time around.
Here are the details of the response I received from Google for this issue
Thank you for contacting Google for Work Support. I understand that
that you Gmail Contextual Gadgets have disappeared again from the
Gmail web interface.
I notice there are other user reporting a similar behavior hence he
have requested an update from our Eng team and I am currently waiting
for their response. As soon as I have an official response, I will be
contacting you back directly with the next steps.
Also I notice you mentioned that the previous workaround is no longer
working. Previously the workaround provided was to press "Shift" and
then click on the email. The email will be opened in a new window and
then the gadgets should be displayed. Can you please confirm if the
above workaround is working or not?
I’ll keep this case open while I wait for your reply. If you have any
other questions or additional comments, don’t hesitate to reply and
I'll be happy to continue helping you.
Sincerely,
Wilmer Google for Work Support
Here is the latest update from Google
As before this issue appears to be UI based as opposed to any problem with the Contextual Gadget API itself, we've gathered some troubleshooting information from affected test environments and are working on identifying a clear root cause and then remedying the behaviour at the moment.
There isn't any further you need to do on your end, I'll update you as I learn of any changes in the status of this behaviour.
Regards,
Patrick
I have been trying for several days. When I login to my Paypal developer account I can see some of my sandbox accounts, but when I try and create a new one, it either hangs with the spiny thing there for way too long, up to 20 minutes before I gave up.
I often get file not found when going to the dashboard or Sandbox > Accounts
the something went wrong errors when trying to manually create an account
I have tried so many combinations with suggestions others have used... but nothing works
Tested on two computers, one W10, other W7, using Google Chrome, Firefox and IE/Edge
Any ideas please for a fix or is this a technical issue on Paypal's end?
Thanks
We have a requirement for people to be able to look at documents people have uploaded to us (mainly word, possibly some rtf) via our web app. We want the user to be able to open the docs inside the browser, but keep the original formatting and not have the need for another application (like word, acrobat etc).
We thought about using google docs to do this, there appears to be some batch uploading options to get stuff in there but does anyone know if we can use the API's to keep the user on our site without them having to login to google docs themselves, and keep them still on our website with re-directing to google docs to view them.
Cheers
There's an option to make documents public (Somewhere in Share->Advanced Options).
Using api you can get list of documents in your google docs account, you can even search em. In your app you could make a link to the document in google docs which opens in a new window. That way your user will never navigate away from your page. An alternative would be to use an IFrame, but it's considered bad practice.
A completely different approach could be to automatically generate and host a pdf each time someone uploads a file. There are scripts/programs which can do that, just call them after you receive a file.