Re: syncing facebook

[John Carr <john carr unrouted co uk>]

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...).

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


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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