Is there anything that is built into the Buildfire platform that would easily allow a user from the "Widget" to upload and post photos to the Buildfire server?
I think you are looking for this API.
https://github.com/BuildFire/sdk/wiki/File-System-Services
Then you want to pass your image to the get Server / CDN using
https://github.com/BuildFire/sdk/wiki/How-to-use-ImageLib#buildfireimagelibcropimageurl-options-cdn-mode
Keep in mind usage is limited to your app tier
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I have a web app service on azure that is hosting a RESTful api which deals with my MySQL database. I am wondering if its possible to somehow (either manually, or otherwise) upload a page to this app service as well. For instance, i have my URL from azure, and my API lives under /api
I was wondering if i can create a php/html page or something that I can upload to /meetingConfirm
so i can do something like /meetingConfirm?id=hash
And have a page which i can send email links to encoded for each meeting, to allow people to respond to invites. It would be a simple page that just updates a value via the API and then displays a confirmation.
For this, you don't need a separate page to be uploaded for each user. You can just add a multi-threading Id generator code and save the last used Id in your DB for future requests.
I am referring to a solution like this(as I am not sure about your tech stack, sharing python approach): How do you generate random unique identifiers in a multi process and multi thread environment?
I want my back-end to use the Google Drive API to be able to list/upload/download files from a normal google drive folder (as opposed to a cloud bucket). But not the user's Google Drive, only MY drive.
As far as the end-user is concerned they would just be on my site but when they upload a file, my back-end would receive it and store it on MY google drive. Same for a simple list of files in the folder, I just want them to click my front-end button and have it send a call to my back end, then my back-end sends a call to the google API and returns a list.... effectively making my back-end the middle man for my google Drive. So that my users don't need a google account to access my site
My reasoning is I want my users to NOT need a google account, but I will still need to share these folders with contractors. The contractors can have a google account, that doesn't bother me, And I don't want to have to re-invent the wheel by building a separate front-end for my contractors to download these folders when Google Drive already has perfectly working UI that will zip a folder and download it already built.
So I want:
User -> front-end -> my backend -> google drive
I have seen posts on doing this for other services, like analytics and calendar, but I really need drive capabilities.
A user could be either my client who needs to upload and download OR my client's clients (who will only ever need to upload)
Main Question:
Can I set my NodeJS Back-end to access my Google Drive to list/download/upload
If it is possible:
How, and should I? As I write this, I am thinking of issues... like, will uploading a file from Front-end to back-end then to google drive be too cumbersome to be practical? (These are video files that could be around 300-400mb).
If not possible OR it is too cumbersome:
Can anyone suggest anything that will make access to Google Cloud bucket folders easier? Package? Example? Method? Tutorial?
Frontend: VueJS with axios
Backend: super basic node/express API/back-end on an AWS ec2 server
The short Answer is Yes.
The way to do this is with a service account as these accounts are special credentials to be used by a service. These accounts are of the form: service-account-name#project-id.iam.gserviceaccount.com.
Once you have the service account you will need to grant access to this service account on the Google Drive location. To grant access to this service account share the location (files or folders) with this account, as if you were sharing the files with another user, just by adding the email on the edit permitions.
And Finally to manipulate the files there programatically you can use the NodeJS Client Library which will make the task easier than manipulate the API calls directly.
Is it possible? I have read the documentation but I wish to know there is one way. I need to create a gallery with some hashtags and filter by some users. Maybe something in the backend can do it?
No. From the official api, you can't get other users' media anymore. They only allow developers or users to fetch their own "RECENT" media. So does hashtags.
More and more restrictions and fewer and fewer APIs opened by Instagram, it's hard to do valuable stuff around IG now.
It is possible. The developer client key defaults to your own content in sandbox mode. You have to create a submission for approval, you can do this via: https://www.instagram.com/developer/clients/ and choose the client that you have created, then the permissions tab will allow you to apply.
I am going through the application process at the moment for our App, it is very difficult as Instagram are stringent.
I was thinking of retrieving a user's Instagram news feed, however the Instagram API doesn't allow you to do that because some users may be private. However, what if I just used an HTTP connection and logged in as the user then went to the user's 'home' page to get their news feed? I think this would work, but I'm not sure about the legalities behind doing so.
See their Terms of Use. Specifically...
We prohibit crawling, scraping, caching or otherwise accessing any
content on the Service via automated means, including but not limited
to, user profiles and photos (except as may be the result of standard
search engine protocols or technologies used by a search engine with
Instagram's express consent).
So I'm trying to add an actual Instagram feed to my wordpress site. I dont want to use a 3rd party site which doesnt drive traffic to the actual IG site. I've been on the IG developers site and to be honest kind of confusing. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I would recommend using a plugin to do the hard work, since there are many out there, and integrating the instagram yourself could be a challenge. A quick google search gave me this one:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/instagram-feed/
If you don't want to use a plugin, you need to understand how the api works.
The instagram API requires OAuth authentication for most calls.
First, You will need to register an application on the https://instagram.com/developer/ site in order to obtain a client Id.
Once you have a client Id, you need to establish a flow for users who visit your site. There is no way around this for API calls requiring authentication.
First, the user needs to login and allow access from your account using the instagram api request url:
https://api.instagram.com/oauth/authorize/?client_id=CLIENT-ID&redirect_uri=REDIRECT-URI&response_type=code
CLIENT-ID is the id you obtained earlier, and REDIRECT-URL should be your wordpress site.
Calling this url will allow you to obtain an access token for the user on your site, and you can then make authenticated calls to the API using that token.
One way around this is to make simple calls that don't require authentication, using tags that are specific to your photos. That is described in this SO question:
Instagram API and importing photos without server side authentication
Cheers,
I agree with Felipe. If you or your client need an Instagram plugin, the easiest way would be to buy it at some marketplace. What’s more important, it is much cheaper than wasting your own time on developing one. Of course, that applies to commercial development, not something that you do for fun.
Here’s a list of plugins that I’ve installed to my clients and was happy about:
https:// wordpress.org/plugins/instashow-lite/ - lite version of the
premium plugin. The functionality is really limited, but it would be
enough to give you a simple display.
https://codecanyon.net/item/instagram-widget-wordpress-plugin-for-instagram/11170758 - a simple commercial widget to display your Instagram
account on a webpage.
https://elfsight.com/help/how-to-embed-instagram-feed-widget-on-html-website/ -
an interesting cloud solution for websites on any CMS. It’s got a demo and a
free plan.