Re: syncing facebook

[John Carr <john carr unrouted co uk>]

On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 18:57 +0000, Karl Lattimer wrote:
> After looking into events it looks very doable, even getting an  
> attendee list is possible.
Nice, *looks forward to patches with a hopeful smile* :)

> Notes doesn't appear to have any API doc there, so I'm assuming  
> there's nothing included, and contacts seem to give you their address  
> but no phone, email or IM.
Sounds about how I remember...

> This sucks, I think I need to place a few bug reports and see if that  
> moves things up, otherwise I'll join the mailing list and see if I can  
> push it further.
> 
> K,
> 
> On 3 Nov 2007, at 18:47, Karl Lattimer wrote:
> 
> >
> > On 3 Nov 2007, at 18:40, John Carr wrote:
> >
> >> You can get a list of friends quite easily, but its missing contact
> >> details. I can sync a list of places i've schooled, but not get an
> >> email
> >> or mobile number, which would have been so ace.
> >>
> >> (The use case i was specifically targeting is where someone updates
> >> their mob and puts it on fb. Conduit could have so pushed the update
> >> to
> >> Evolution/your phone/etc. Maybe for other use cases there is  
> >> something
> >> in there...).
> >
> > That's the use case I wanted to go for. The events and notes are
> > pretty standard though, someone invites me to a fb event, I add it to
> > my fb calendar, then its on my evo/phone calendar.
> >
> > If we could get just notes and calendar added then thats a start, but
> > short of scraping if the API doesn't support it then there are issues
> > that we have to overcome. Maybe joining the developer network would be
> > a good idea to at least push this stuff as it is a cool feature for
> > facebook and conduit alike.
> >
> >
> >> See here for calls and XML samples:
> >>
> >> * Getting friends list
> >> http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Friends.get
> >>
> >> * Getting info on a given UID
> >> http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Users.getInfo
> >>
> >
> > cool cheers
> >
> > k,
> >
> >
> >> John
> >>
> >> On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 18:30 +0000, Karl Lattimer wrote:
> >>> This is a big shame, the API side of things could be complicated, I
> >>> mean retrieving my friends list, then searching for their contact
> >>> details. Do you think facebook have included these features in the
> >>> API?
> >>>
> >>> The trick of course is to get this stuff nicely dealt with before MS
> >>> do something similar so I think I'll look into the facebook stuff  
> >>> and
> >>> see if its possible. I've got time this weekend so this seems like
> >>> something that would be worth a snoop.
> >>>
> >>> K,
> >>>
> >>> On 3 Nov 2007, at 18:23, John Carr wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> There was a blog post that made me want to do facebook contact  
> >>>> sync.
> >>>> Unfortunately (unless they fixed API) it is impossible without
> >>>> screen
> >>>> scraping. That is against TOS and other projects to do it were
> >>>> "cease
> >>>> and desist-ified".
> >>>>
> >>>> I don't know what API is like for other features you describe..
> >>>>
> >>>> :(
> >>>>
> >>>> John
> >>>>
> >>>> On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 18:08 +0000, Karl Lattimer wrote:
> >>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I was just wondering if you've got any plans for facebook contact,
> >>>>> calendars and notes syncage?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> This is a feature that would make conduit a killer app for the
> >>>>> online
> >>>>> desktop.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Cheers,
> >>>>> K,
> >>>>>
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> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
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