Access to activities posted in a community

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Describe in detail the new feature you would like to see added
Similar to how activities.list works for people and pages it would be great if 
this could work for communities as well (as was unofficially and unintended 
possible before).

activities.list(communityId) should return a list of posts that happened inside 
of the community (newest first).

Describe your use case, or some example use cases, for this feature
- Statistics for community owners/moderators: who are the most active community 
members, in what categories is the most activity, ...

- "Community widget": If someone wants to promote their community outside of 
Google+ they could use this API to display a list of recent posts.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by scaryg...@gmail.com on 14 Aug 2013 at 11:58

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YES! We need Community Statistics.

A Community Widget would be absolutely amazing as well. Especially with the 
number of businesses starting communities. 

As the owner and moderator of several large (top 150) communities - this is a 
tool that was very useful to gauging effectiveness of moderation as well, by 
being able to compare total posts to post engagement over a period of time... 

Original comment by aharasew...@gmail.com on 15 Aug 2013 at 7:05

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Yes I note this problem too. Up until a few days ago (or was it a week ago?) 
the ID number for a community (example 116461000134682563789 -  
https://plus.google.com/communities/116461000134682563789) produced a list of 
posts regarding the API, the ID Community number functioned in the same manner 
to Page or user's personal posts (public posts) to their profile, but alas no 
more :-(

Please reactivate the feature which allows the IDs for communities to return a 
list of public posts from Communities via the API, similar to how Pages and a 
users profile posts functions. 

More info about the problem:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/115182708880590896480/posts/Z2Zp3pVFTg8
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/gplus-to-rss/WEoipu5iUr0/9OQBR9txMqMJ
This is where I used the API regarding posts to Communities: 
http://futuristicreader.blogspot.com/p/social-b.html

Original comment by 2045sing...@gmail.com on 17 Aug 2013 at 8:10

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Why this feature was disabled? 

I'm running RSS reader which allows users to subscribe to Google+ profiles and 
communities and it worked quite well for a long time. Recently activities.list 
started returning empty lists for communities and there is no other way to get 
posts from community.

Getting posts by getting activities of all community members is no go since 
there can be thousands of members.

Original comment by vshaban...@gmail.com on 20 Aug 2013 at 2:25

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This stats is really needed

Original comment by akol...@google.com on 4 Sep 2013 at 7:50

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I hope this will be resolved soon!

Original comment by jlhumb...@gmail.com on 5 Sep 2013 at 12:51

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For clarity

https://www.googleapis.com/plus/v1/people/116529974266844528013/activities/publi
c?key=...

Now returns an empty items array. The issue persists when using a personal key 
and example tool on the API Guide.

https://developers.google.com/+/api/latest/activities/list#examples

Original comment by ian.shau...@gmail.com on 9 Sep 2013 at 2:08

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I used this possibility in my android application to show a bulletin board 
containing the activities in my community.

Now this no longer seems possible.

I hope we can return soon.

Original comment by mozzies....@gmail.com on 10 Sep 2013 at 2:27

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How do you manage your community without this info?

Original comment by fpgib...@gmail.com on 16 Sep 2013 at 3:22

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Well I had the same problem. I made a temporary fix: 

- I retrieve the communities members
- Then loop through them and retrieve all of their posts
- Then loop through their post and only keep the ones posted in the community 
I'm interested in

This is pretty bad, but it's the only way available right now.

Original comment by st...@ubidreams.com on 16 Sep 2013 at 3:34

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I'm going to create it-communities aggregator - and need this feature as O2!

Original comment by hangouts...@gmail.com on 24 Sep 2013 at 9:45

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We are having a great time using a couple of Google+ communities to co-ordinate 
pair programming events with programmers and students from all around the world:

https://plus.google.com/communities/100279740984094902927 
https://plus.google.com/communities/101007836695292894562

However I'd really like to start analyzing the pair programming events, and so 
want to grab information about the events via the read-only Google API. 

What I've managed so far is to be able to search for public events in my own 
activity stream. From there I can get to an activity id for a public hangout I 
stared:

z13adpyrwlaytjicm22bvjhjkly0yfctz

which gives me some useful information on that event, but what I'm really after 
is to get the info on all the events associated with our communities so that we 
can analyze them and better support them.

Original comment by tans...@gmail.com on 15 Oct 2013 at 6:59

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Yes, we do need this G+

Original comment by rus...@gmail.com on 28 Oct 2013 at 12:05

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I would really like if google will reconsider this option for the future : 

Here is my issue posted on stackoverflow forum : 

Im trying to figure out whether it's possible to show the posts of my google+ 
community on a website.

I read the Google+ Web API and HTTP API, but nothing seems to satisfy my 
request.

I know this is an absolute newbie question. But I appreciate any hint:

is it in general possible? which API I have to use?

Thanks a lot!

Original comment by fishoutt...@gmail.com on 5 Nov 2013 at 5:18

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ma nel post che ho visto dicevi 730 �

Original comment by jes...@gmail.com on 8 Nov 2013 at 8:00

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comunque ora devo uscire, domani ti faccio il bonifico dell'acconto e poi
ci mettiamo d'accordo in hangout marted� ;)

Original comment by jes...@gmail.com on 8 Nov 2013 at 8:01

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i need Community Statistics.

Original comment by jon.ro...@gmail.com on 10 Nov 2013 at 7:35

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i need Community Statistics

Original comment by svvsv...@gmail.com on 10 Nov 2013 at 7:49

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Please give community back to api

Original comment by balboale...@gmail.com on 21 Nov 2013 at 12:21

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Yes, we do need this G+

Original comment by VerumHya...@gmail.com on 3 Dec 2013 at 1:05

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i need Community Statistics

Original comment by m4sola...@gmail.com on 3 Dec 2013 at 1:05

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Please please please, we need our community stats!

Original comment by JeffreyG...@gmail.com on 4 Dec 2013 at 1:24

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I miss my community stats! Don't you want me to know what's working so I do 
more of it?

Original comment by kathibro...@gmail.com on 6 Dec 2013 at 7:31

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I miss my community stats :(

Original comment by mohmedxpmpa on 8 Dec 2013 at 10:27

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We need it :D

Original comment by k.mouham...@gmail.com on 19 Dec 2013 at 2:18

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We need community stats for my thesis, thanks!

Original comment by oriol.bo...@gmail.com on 16 Jan 2014 at 8:41

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Yes community support in the API would be great!

Original comment by thilo2gr...@gmail.com on 21 Jan 2014 at 1:35

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We had an open source app which has lost functionality due to this. Please 
restore the functionality.

Original comment by Jared.Wo...@gmail.com on 25 Jan 2014 at 4:16

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We desperately need this too.

Original comment by jbr...@business-access.com on 17 Feb 2014 at 7:32

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Here's another vote to "bring back" this feature. Please add Communities to the 
G+ API. 

Original comment by s...@asksac.com on 17 Feb 2014 at 9:19

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Yes, bring this feature back please.

Original comment by dated...@gmail.com on 18 Feb 2014 at 9:40

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I want to analyze my community and need a program to do that/ please consider 
this seriously or I will give up using goole plus

Original comment by ahmetdur...@gmail.com on 25 Feb 2014 at 2:51

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I understand that you wish to deprive Windows Phone 8 users of a decent G+ app 
because of your ongoing battle with Microsoft. But is your battle with me? 
Google+ absolutely has the power to unseat Fakebook as the prime social media 
platform and the Win Phone platform is expanding rapidly. It baffles me why you 
won't open up the API for the Community feature. As a Moderator I need a 
community-centric view to manage content. If you allow such access from a 
browser why not expand that access globally?

Original comment by ceesharp...@gmail.com on 1 Mar 2014 at 2:57

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I want to analyze comunities!!!

Original comment by santana....@gmail.com on 9 Mar 2014 at 8:06

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I really need this.

Original comment by Lipe.Maz...@gmail.com on 17 Mar 2014 at 6:00

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Issue 792 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by t...@google.com on 20 Mar 2014 at 10:07

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Wanted to make an Ingress / Google Plus application that leveraged the APIs of 
both.

Unfortunately, neither exist.

Hopefully its under development and almost finished, otherwise here is a quick 
list of things.

- Pull posts from community
- Pulls events from community
- Pull memberlist to validate if user x is part of community y
- Check if Owner / Moderator on those users.

Are just some of my ideas.

Original comment by connor.tumbleson on 16 Apr 2014 at 12:24

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I'm an admin for a fan/lifestyle group on Facebook. Like many groups on FB, we 
are considering alternatives since the "reachpocalypse" and we'd like to 
embrace Google+. However, we can't reasonably do that without an API that 
allows us to connect our community activity back to our website. Please bring 
back the ability to pull the posts and events via the API, or at the very least 
give us some idea of why it used to exist but no longer does. One can't help 
but wonder if some of these little things aren't the last straw that would push 
Google+ ahead of Facebook in the social networking world.

Original comment by ericjba...@gmail.com on 23 Apr 2014 at 1:10

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It would be nice if we can get the events from a G+ community.

Original comment by IDR...@gmail.com on 4 May 2014 at 3:58

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So, if I understand right, there was a API for G+ communities, and now this API 
is deactivated? Why? 

I played a game with some friends, and we want to play again. But I had to read 
and answer all 760 posts manually, and so I was looking for an API. 

Hope there will be soon possibilities to get posts of a community and answer 
automatically

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Original comment by t...@google.com on 6 Jun 2014 at 9:36

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After so long, still no fix on this?

Jeez, community stats and monitoring events as well as community activity is 
very difficult to moderate and keep track of because of the lack of this 
feature. Why is google not simply make it so we can treat communities like 
profiles and pages (as we used to) and call it quits so we can all be happy :(

Original comment by FightThe...@gmail.com on 14 Jul 2014 at 2:09

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Yes community support in the API would be great!

Original comment by Licorica...@gmail.com on 18 Jul 2014 at 1:47

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They say they don't release it early because it might need changing later on 
and that will cause trouble for people making apps based on it. They are 
waiting to release the fully capable completed api for our sake. At least that 
was the comments of a high level employee in Google. 

Original comment by FightThe...@gmail.com on 19 Jul 2014 at 11:29

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I really need this.

Original comment by Stel...@gmail.com on 20 Jul 2014 at 6:57

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Community API is required when developing apps for Google for Work / Drive for 
Work customers that leverage G+!! We need this!

Original comment by antero.h...@gapps.fi on 5 Sep 2014 at 9:22

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I really need this too

Original comment by bethanyr...@gmail.com on 9 Sep 2014 at 5:42

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Original comment by t...@google.com on 18 Sep 2014 at 2:20

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Please add support for this

Original comment by darryn....@gmail.com on 16 Oct 2014 at 12:59