We are building an app where we would like to show images from Instagram from a specific hash-tag - because of the new API restrictions this is not possible.
Instagram mention that one should find a third party provider to provide such service - I can't find any - is there somebody who knows what possibilites there are?
I found that Zapier can do this for you:
https://zapier.com/zapbook/instagram/
Free version has some limitations in the number of "Zaps" (= executions) of the script, but it may be enough, or you can switch to a paid plan.
Destination can be almost anything (for example a Firebase db or a Dropbox folder)
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I currently creating a cross platform desktop application using Electron. I wish to add analytics to view user metrics. When I try to find for existing packages that provides metrics info, I found electron-ga.
The package uses GA to track user metrics and to set it up I need to include GA tracking id in my app. My question is, if I include the tracking id in an electron app and distribute my app, everyone can look at the tracking id and steal it right?
I would like to know if using this method is right?
Thank you.
It will be anyway publicly available (e.g. you can find the ga ID through the source code of any site that uses Google Analytics).
It can get very bad if someone wants to harm you, as he can just plug your ga ID in any of his sites unless you are prepared and protected.
What you can do to be sure that even if someone has your ga ID, he can't make use of it, is the folowing.
Go to your Google Analytics profile and create a custom filter. Choose "Hostname" for the filter field and fill the filter pattern with your site (e.g. mysite.com). Don't forget to use the "\" before of any ".".
This way, only this specific address will be able to make use of your ga ID.
That is ok. You could see many people push the ga id at website or app.
It is necessary. If you don't add tracking id to ga code. Then you cannot track user.
I want to know, if there is an api that supports to post/publish automatically a picture as a instagram story.
Currently I am using the instagram4j api that works perfectly to publish pictures in the regular feed, but I want to be able to plan that every day a picture is published as a story.
Is there such an api?
Sounds like this is something other developers have requested on the GitHub repo issues section for the Instagram4j API.
https://github.com/brunocvcunha/instagram4j/issues/42
Might be worth following this and +1 ing the issue.
As off now, Instagram's official API doesn't allow this unfortunately.
An alternative might be to check this repo on GitHub.
https://github.com/mgp25/Instagram-API/blob/master/src/Request/Story.php
I haven't tested it myself but that might be something worth considering.
I might get flagged down by this question.. but still will give it a shot..
Since Google Site Search is going out of business and we are not interested in the free version of it - We decided to go with the Amazon Cloud Search option. The challenge though is - it is not straight forward. We have to build a crawler and there are some features that needs to be custom built.
I am trying to see examples where websites have used ACS and worked but i am not able to find anything good.. Have anyone tried using Amazon Cloud search for their Website search. Our website has around 15000 plus pages.
We are .net based solution - so i am thinking to write a crawler.. extract content on nightly basis and send it to Amazon. Would it be the right way?
ACS is based on Solr. If your site is under your control, i think the first step is extracting all useful content out and generate them into xml/json files, then use AWS CLI upload these documents to ACS. ACS has REST APIs to let you to get the query result. You need to define indexes before uploading them.
This comment mentions a partial roll out in Chrome Web Store. Where can I find that feature? My extension has more than 8,000 users but I don't see any partial roll out feature and I'm afraid to send the next version to all users at the same time.
I don't think it's documented anywhere. And I was wrong!
Documentation link: Control how fast your app reaches users.
In CWS lingo this is called "Controlled Rollout".
If you don’t see the max deploy percentage control, it may be because of the following:
You have less than 10,000 users. Currently the “controlled rollout” feature is only available for items with at least 10,000 users.
You need to upload a newer (higher) version of a package to use the “controlled rollout” feature. We can’t apply a controlled rollout to an already published package, because it may have already reached 100% of users.
It should show on the Edit page after you upload a new version that's not published yet. Here's a mention of it and how it should look:
Also, I've never actually tried using it.
Update: In the new Webstore Dashboard it's called "Partial Rollout" and has the same 10k users requirement.
I'm making an app and I plan to have some cloud happening with it, but I do not want to create a user data base and have the users need to remember their username and password.
Since it will be distributed through the chrome app store it's basically guaranteed that the user will have a google account. All I want to do is:
Get the user's email through the google account stuff. If I get it through there, well then their email is all the authentication I need to get that user's data.
If I end up putting the application on something other than chrome browser, I'll just have the user use their email to request a validation link, and then I'll send them a validation code for that account, they put the validation code into the application, it takes that as a verified user, so that's secure and easy as well.
EDIT: I'm looking into this. So far I have:
OAuth 2
Google API
But I have a problem that I don't know what to set as my javascript origins in the Google API and there isn't too much info on this abroad. If anyone can tell me what javascript origins I need to set for a chrome extension to access google api it would be a great help.
PS: Thanks for down vote, this is why I love resorting to stack exchange.
Hmmm, I think the only reason this was voted down is the fact that this question may be been asked somewhere on the site already (but I'll help you and give give a 1up).
So what you are wanting to use the Google OpenID. You will have to register your application with Google so they can provide OAuth2 tokens for you application. I have not done this with Google but with other services and it is pretty easy, just search around.
In terms of obtaining OAuth2 for your application in the chrome extension - this can be a pain since the extension is sandboxed and Google's example uses OAuth not OAuth2.
Here is solution I host on GitHub for this - I also use this in my extension GitHub Repositories:
https://github.com/jjNford/oauth2-chrome-extension
Hope this helps in some way. Don't get discourages with StackOverflow, it is a great resource with many great contributors.
Good luck!
I had to up vote you too as I'm tracking down a related issue so here is what I've found that may help.
According to these directions - http://code.google.com/p/google-api-javascript-client/wiki/Authentication - "In the "Authorized JavaScript Origins" box, enter the protocol and domain for your site." This should be the protocol (http:// or https://) followed by any optional subdomain followed by your domain name and no trailing slash. Nothing after the domain name.
This prevents certain kind of security attacks, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same_origin_policy.
There are some related questions here that I found that may help:
Problems with Google Picker API and selecting Google Drive items and google apis console 'Javascript origins'.
Now with all of that said, I am still trying to track down what values to put in there for one of my sites hosted as a Google Site, as none of the obvious values are working for me. So there may be some subtlety there that I have missed in this explanation.