Comment by ipsum2

11 years ago

Is there any other way to work with Facebook Chat, now that XMPP is gone?

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grandalf  11 years ago

Directly via the graph api. Simpler than xmpp.

Someone recently posted a graph api chat example.

  • jwise0  11 years ago

    You have to be an app developer for that to work: /me/threads is accessible only to developers of an app, and there is no permission that you can grant to an app to make it work. Otherwise, you get:

      {
    "error": {
      "message": "(#298) You must be a developer of the application", 
      "type": "OAuthException", 
      "code": 298
    }
  }

    You get this even if you try to use the Graph API Explorer tool to view /me/threads.

  • MBlume  11 years ago

    Do we know if Adium/pidgin are likely to update to use that API, or is it too early to say?

    • baudehlo  11 years ago

      Someone will build it. But it still just adds another proprietary API to the arsenal. Ugh.

      I echo other sentiments here: what exactly is broken about XMPP that companies keep moving away?

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  • vlad003  11 years ago

    Can you link to the example? I've been interested in doing something like this, but as far as I can tell, you can only read messages using the Graph API; there's no method for sending messages.

jwise0  11 years ago

As far as I understand, no. (A request for an API to write a desktop client was the top "most-liked" comment on the Messenger-platform blog post, which is how I found out about this.)