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12 years 4 months ago #17130 by matsar
I am an admin of an FB group page for an alumni association. I'd like to be able to show all the posts and comments of the fb group on my Joomla website. Is this possible with JFB Connect?
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12 years 4 months ago #17135 by alzander
No, it's not. Facebook doesn't have any real tools for Facebook Groups. They really put a focus on Pages over the last year, and generally are pushing everyone to move to them. Even with that, the tool we distribute is one of their widgets which can show all admin posts to a FB Page, but not any comments from non-admins. There are ways with the Facebook Graph API, which we implement and make it very easy to extend, that you could pull all posts and comments from a Page and display it, but it's not built in. I don't believe there's any similar mechanism for pulling comments from Groups, as Facebook simply doesn't provide a lot of integration functionality for them.

Hope that helps,
Alex
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12 years 4 months ago #17147 by matsar

alzander wrote: No, it's not. Facebook doesn't have any real tools for Facebook Groups. They really put a focus on Pages over the last year, and generally are pushing everyone to move to them. Even with that, the tool we distribute is one of their widgets which can show all admin posts to a FB Page, but not any comments from non-admins. There are ways with the Facebook Graph API, which we implement and make it very easy to extend, that you could pull all posts and comments from a Page and display it, but it's not built in. I don't believe there's any similar mechanism for pulling comments from Groups, as Facebook simply doesn't provide a lot of integration functionality for them.

Hope that helps,
Alex


Thanks for your reply Alex!!Would I need to purchase your implementation of the Facebook Graph API that does this? If so, how much would that cost?

Best regards,

M@
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12 years 4 months ago #17150 by alzander
JFBConnect implements the Graph API, which is a way to make calls to Facebook to get information about different 'objects' (people, pages, likes, etc). A quick bit of information about what you're looking for from Pages can actually be found in the forum post post below.
www.sourcecoast.com/forums/jfbconnect/jf...ty-stream?p=1#p16987

Feel free to check it out. It gives an idea of what you can do. If it doesn't make too much sense, just understand that you can get comments from a Page in a 'raw' format. You'd need a developer or someone else to put these together and display them in a prettier fashion. We can help along the way, but wouldn't be able to implement it fully.

Thanks,
Alex
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