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Schmavery / facebook-chat-api

Unofficial Facebook Chat API for Nodejs
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Getting rid of node #298

Closed Dudelmoser closed 8 years ago

Dudelmoser commented 8 years ago

Hey guys,

as far as I can see, this package "simply" emulates the requests of the messenger/facebook web client. So shouldn't it be possible to get rid of the node.js dependency in order to allow writing a custom messenger client which has no need for a dedicated server or a local node installation?

Thanks in advance

bsansouci commented 8 years ago

This issue has been addressed on multiple occasions: #103 and #290

The problem remains the same: you can't have this client-side only because of cross origin requests (from your own domain name to FB's). The browser won't allow this. Feel free to make a chrome extension, all you need is to replace the stdout/strerr streams (look at the issues attached). Feel free to fork this and make a branch that is detached from nodejs. Also feel free to reimplement this in other languages, we love to see stuff like fbchat happen and we wish people pursued it more. Closing this to keep our issues clean, but feel free to continue the discussion here.

Dudelmoser commented 8 years ago

Thank you for linking those two threads - they show that it should be possible quite effortless. I guess I'll be using Apache Cordova. I can white list domains for cross site scripting there.

Schmavery commented 8 years ago

Awesome, be sure to link us to anything you manage to get working :smile: