Re: syncing facebook

[Karl Lattimer <karl qdh org uk>]

The following bugs have been filed

http://bugs.developers.facebook.com/show_bug.cgi?id=614
http://bugs.developers.facebook.com/show_bug.cgi?id=615

Anything else you can think of to be requested?

K,

On 3 Nov 2007, at 19:06, John Carr wrote:

> 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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