The Graph API

Seth says
kudos indeed

Holmes says
Answered question two elsewhere as well. The answer is extremely simple and straight forward. data:uri.
Any media can be transferred in JSON using a data:uri … although it is frowned upon for video due to the extra cost of the base 64 encoding eating up 1/3 more internet bandwidth than actually needed.
 

Seth says
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Si says
Don’t know if you want to do it the nerdy way … but you can now use the graph API to change a group password.

If you have the normal right to change it, or if you have right-edit-scripts, you can change the password of a group using the /put API as documented above.

Very clean and easy way to do it, if you are a nerd. 

Obviously non-url characters in the password must be escaped. Spaces must be %20 for instance. But if it is just a letter and number password it can go in straight up. Hey, it’s an API !!! 
 

Si says
Quite interesting and time saving possibilities exist only through the API.

For instance, in one simple quad line Seth can move all of his thoughts from one group to another.  Like this line which would move all of Seth’s group fbi thoughts over to the tiggerandhobbs group. (not that he should do exactly that of course)

/put/thoughts/relocate/tiggerandhobbs?group=fbi&profile=seth
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Similar possibilities exist for moving via a tag name and batch deleting by tag or author as well.

If you decide to do this, make sure you read the API definition and follow it exactly. Take note that the profile name is being used as a convenience for the author id so that you don’t have to look up the id. It is not being used as the group to move from or to even though it is a group. The API has a command to look up the author id if you prefer or need it.
 

Si says
What thoughts to move is not optional. So that particular url should error out because you only told it the group to select, not what thoughts in that group to select, which you could do with user id, user profile, or with a tag name. Trusting my software I clicked on the link and here is what I get.

{"count":0,"relocated":[],"error":"tag name or user designation required","result":false}

Yes, the ability of mainly group members to do pranks on each other with hard coded url’s in the pages is something to consider. FB uses a timed token to prevent that. I just implemented something similar. You now need to add a token=<pin> in put based urls. You can get your current session token with /get/token which is simply a 4 digit pin number assigned to your current session. It changes when you log out and back in, but is easy to remember while you are working. Url’s that change something require the token pin now. Can’t prank each other!  

Si says
Just added the option of &all=true so that you can move all thoughts for ease in managing your site. This requires your right-edit-scripts right so it is only available to the prime origin and the developer gods.

Seth says


“code in the url area” is the way REST APIs are made these days.  There is lots of precidence for this on the web.  It works well. 

Seth says
i think most serious software packags have APIs … they allow developers outside of the enterprise to enhance its usefulness.  

Mark de LA says
most of them are really old – a wizzard feeding mechanism – ~111 just searched . Maybe the body of them is also 

Seth says
$wish .   Yes this used to be a way for Mark (and even myself) to ask for a feature.  Since i was the developer then, i can see how it was “feeding” me.    We probably still need such a tag going … is is not currently nfeatures ?

Holmes says
Okay. This is done. See doc for full spec. The one you want is

/put/domain/tags/delete?tag=%24wish&token=nnnn

Notice I added back the domain context because tags can be dealt with at the domain, group, and even individual thought level. I am thinking about putting it back for thoughts too. Thoughts are never dealt with outside of the group level so I didn’t put it on, but for consistency of semantics maybe I should.

%24 is the dollar sign. You can figure such things out very easily in any browser. Simply right click on anything and choose inspect element. Then on the console tab, simply write escape(‘$wish’), or whatever you want to escape, and it will be printed for you. Normally you wont need to when there are no special characters other than space, which everyone knows is %20

Also realize that it can be much easier to use another browser tab and just put these things in the url bar than to monkey around with url’s in the RTE. I would only put these in a thought if I had a lot of similar work to do and wanted to copy and paste or have a record of what I did. For just a command or two, another browser tab is super easy to use and you will still be logged in the same.

Seth says
or maybe not,  that old address was deactivated because it had collected too much spam years ago … might still have too much going there.   i’ll pick something else but it will be @robustai.net .   it doesn’t need to be verified for current usage, does it?

Holmes says
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Si says
Some command semantics changed a little for better consistency across all commands.
Just check the list before using something. It is current.  

Si says
Thought identity can now be transferred. motility

This ability is restricted to the owner of the thought and super heroes. It would not be appropriate for other group members to change the owner of a thought.

Tags by the old owner are transferred to the new owner. Comment identity is preserved. In my opinion, it is sometimes useful or necessary to change the owner of a thought, but changing the author of a comment is pure evil and should never be done.

Seth says
wow that is a first … he made his breakfast his advatar