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backfeed facebook notes (not currently available in FB API) #429

Closed diplix closed 9 years ago

diplix commented 9 years ago

just a quick note, not an issue: it took me a while to find this out, but you can post ”notes“ on facebook, that allow basic formating, post-images and even html-links. example: https://www.facebook.com/notes/felix-schwenzel/nachhaltigkeit/10153150034826785

post discovery doesn’t honor notes however, even if there is a plain text link to the blogpost in it or if you put a syndication-backlink on your blogpost.

what works however is this url structure: https://www.facebook.com/548616784/posts/10153150034826785

if you set a syndication link to this url, bridgy’s backfeed discovery gets the note — or rather the post that anounces the note. the note above got one comment and one like, which are attached to both, the post and the note — and bridgy sends a mention accordingly: http://wirres.net/article/articleview/8177/1/6/#trackback

snarfed commented 9 years ago

thanks for the thorough investigation! sadly, it looks like facebook dropped notes from the API altogether in API v2.0. (search for /me/notes). they always kind of treated notes as a second class citizen anyway, as you mentioned: they're hard to find, and they never got much prominence in the news feed.

/me/posts returns a story when you create a note:

{
  "story": "Felix Schwenzel wrote a new note: Nachhaltigkeit?",
  "created_time": "2015-07-20T07:02:31+0000",
  "id": "548616784_10153150034826785"
}

...but you can't get te actual contents of the note. /548616784_10153150034826785 returns that same JSON object, /548616784/posts/10153150034826785 returns a generic error, and most notably, /10153150034826785 says:

"error": {
  "message": "(#12) notes API is deprecated for versions v2.0 and higher",
  "type": "OAuthException",
  "code": 12
}

i'll add this to the bridgy docs, and i'll leave this issue open for tracking in case FB ever adds notes back to the API.

snarfed commented 9 years ago

looks like we already are backfeeding comments and likes on notes ok, as felix mentioned originally. details at the bottom of #480.

so, the remaining part here is to handle FB /notes/... syndication urls. should be straightforward.