I am trying to develop my sandbox app using instagram API. Based on documentation, I can invite up to 9 sandbox users to make a network.
I have read this.
The problem is, I don't know what are the usernames of sandbox users?
Or alternativly, how can i find list of avalible sanbox users?
Invite Instagram users you know, if you just send to random people they may not know or may not accept. Better to invite your friends who use Instagram.
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I'm trying to send a notification out using Google Chats. But I have a few problems with the documentation I've been able to find:
It requires me to have a paid service account, which I do not have, and will not be getting
It requires using a chat bot, which (in my understanding) needs to be added to a room, and cannot just send out messages
Chat bots can't send out messages directly to personal accounts?
I'm already using Google OAuth2 authentication to access another Google API, so I'd like to use a Google API to send messages directly from the authenticated account. How would I do that?
So far:
All the documentation I can find is about making a chat bot.
I've considered some alternatives to sending out messages, but due to corporate device restrictions that will not be changing, google chats is my best option.
At the moment what you're trying to do is not possible, for multiple reasons.
You may know this already, but Google Chat is an upgrade to their old "Classic Hangouts" chat. In Google's own words, this is focused on enterprise (i.e. paid) accounts. While personal accounts are also able to upgrade and get some of the benefits, their documentation shows that Google Chat for personal accounts is very similar to the old Hangouts and most of the new features are meant for the paid accounts. This also includes the use of bots.
As you've observed, the Chat API currently only has methods to create and manage bots. There are no methods to send messages as your own account. This could be to prevent spam or because their Chat API is relatively new, since the Classic Hangouts did not have an API, and Chat hasn't fully replaced it yet. Even then, given that Chat is "enterprise-focused", it is uncertain whether or not personal accounts would get access to any new API features.
You could try to post feedback on their issue tracker or request the feature to see if you get a response, but for an immediate solution you may want to just use the Gmail API to send a regular email or reconsider the other alternatives that you had in mind.
Simply looking for some direction, whether it's a link to the docs or an example:
I want to use Passport to authenticate users using Slack/Passport but only if they belong to my company. So, for example,
olaf#mycompany can log in and view protected assets
ishtar#anotherco cannot do either, despite having an account with slack
A cursory search found this issue but I couldn't find anything in the docs.
Thanks!
Slack Passport is using the Sign in with Slack feature. It requires users to already have an existing Slack account for your Slack workspace.
So to ensure that only users belonging to your company get access to your web site all you need to do is verify that you receive an access token for the right Slack workspace, e.g. the one of your company. You can check that by comparing the team_id in the access token.
Apparently you can pass a team parameter during the oauth flow as described here. This allows slack to do the id comparison on their end, but it does require the developer to know what their team's id is ahead of time.
is there a way I can use the instagram API and check what users are visiting my instagram profile ?
For example, I'd like to develop something that tells you what users are visiting your profile the most on a weekly basis.
Thanks!
I'm not 100% sure but it might be possible now with the facebook insight graph API. It's basicly a new one where you can find data connection between facebook and instagram accounts. Mainly targeting business account thought.
I am working at a agency that used to add Instagram hashtag & user feeds on websites. My old applications still work until june this year (https://www.instagram.com/developer/changelog/). Then they will need to be approved by Instagram to get out of sandbox mode.
I understand that we need an valid access token with: public_content permission scope. I read many people having their applications denied by Instagram.
When I read their permissions review (https://www.instagram.com/developer/review/) on the developer part of their site I came across this question:
My company is working with multiple clients, should I submit one app
per project? No, we do not approve apps that are created for one-off
projects (e.g. a hashtag campaign, an event, a website). You should
use a single client_id across all your integrations.
Do they approve applications that reuses its client_id for several projects? For example if I would want to develop an application/client which whole purpose would be to show one public instagram hashtag feed on websites. Would that get approved by Instagram if I reused the applications client_id over several projects?
Your use case is not approved. So your client will not get approved to "go live". You can still make these tag requests in Sandbox mode, but you will only get results from your last 20 posts. This short article explains how the Instagram API works since June 1st.
If you can work around the 20-post restriction, you can use this tool to manually generate an Instagram API token with the necessary public_content scope.
I don't think so.
I have requested public_info permission for an application simialr to yours but "DECLINED"
Try to request the permission with a good screencast video on how to use it and might be work. who knows.
Regards.
The facebook chat api is a power tool. From a purely technically point of view, it definitely does more than its predecessor of private messages in the Graph API.
This brings up a question of where Facebook is drawing the line of abuse of its chat api.
So here's how I'm planning to use the Facebook chat api for my app.
The app is an event planning app that lets users invite their friends to an event. Other than sending SMS, and emails to notify the guests, the most reliable way is to send invitations through the list of facebook friends. And let's face it, sometimes you may not have the person's phone number in your contact book, and you definitely don't remember most of their emails, so facebook is your only source for reaching them.
So I need a solution to send invitations to the guests. Here are my requirements and conditions:
The guest is a facebook friend of the user
There's no way of obtaining the guest's email (unless the user enters it) or phone number (ie. sms is not an option)
Each guest must receive a link that is unique to him/her
No one else should be able to obtain this link (ie. the message shouldn't be seen publicly)
It must not require the user's interaction to send these invitations (imagine having the user confirm a facebook post 10 times for the 10 facebook friends he's inviting). The invitation must be sent automatically.
Here's the obstacle. Facebook had revoked the functionality to send private message recently (I was able to have my facebook friends send me private messages via an app just over a month ago, not anymore). However, I discover that I could do so using Facebook Chat API.
This seems to be a grey area, my app is using the chat api for the sole purpose of helping the users notify their friends of their event invitation. There's no intention of abuse (such as mass messaging everyone of the user's friends with a link to my APP/website). Is Facebook going to hunt me down and revoke my App's privilege to use Facebook's API?
Can anyone shed some light on whether my intended usage of the API is an abuse or is it legitimate? If it is not legitimate, what are your suggestions.
I'd recommend using core functionality wherever possible here. For example, you could utilise the Facebook 'Event' object and the Graph API to create invite-only events and to invite individual friends of your app's users. This would deliver the same functionality without the need for nonce-based invite URLs and possible misuse of the Chat API. Take a look at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/event/#invited for details.