WIP Facebook SimpleCm

[Martin Klapetek]

On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 12:44 AM, Martin Klapetek <martin.klapetek at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 12:26 AM, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> There's this PoC by PovAddict:
>> http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=scratch%2Fnalvarez%2Ffacebook-chat.git
>
>
> Yes, that's a script basically acting as a webbrowser and parsing the DOM
> together with some reverse-engineered ajax calls iirc. Besides the obvious
> the-webpage-can-change-any-minute-and-things-explode (which they
> currently do) it also cannot get your whole friend list; it's only those
> that you
> see in your sidebar when you open facebook.com iirc.
>
> Rather than basing it on that^, I think it'd be more rewarding/beneficial
> to
> go the Messaging API way (through /me/inbox endpoint). In fact, you could
> probably collect the user ids from the recent inbox messages. Though note
> that
> starting with April, all apps requesting non-standard permissions (which
> read_inbox is) must go through Facebook review, so it might be they will
> just deny that API usage...
>

Actually scratch that, with the 2.3 version of the API, it's impossible to
/send/
messages, only read (they really really made sure this would be impossible).

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.3/user/inbox

Soo...your only choice, Mikel, would now be to try to extend upon that
python
script parsing the webpage (and fixing it first), but it is quite a long
stretch...

Sorry.

Cheers
-- 
Martin Klapetek | KDE Developer
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