Facebook Push Notifications to Processing Sketch

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lutrabot

Facebook Push Notifications to Processing Sketch

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Hi All,

I'm trying to make a sketch that receives push notifications from various social networks. I figured facebook would be the best place to start, but I'm at a loss as to how to actually ping for a notification. I basically want to trigger an event in Processing whenever I get a notification on my Facebook page. Could anyone share some tips? I'm looking to do the same thing for Twitter and Instagram eventually too...

Thanks in advance!

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akiersky

Re: Facebook Push Notifications to Processing Sketch

1 month ago

Hi lutrabot,

Facebook actually seemed to be more difficult than other services to tie into. Last I checked, FB makes you use their FML, to access things. I found it to be somewhat clunky and unclear how to get exactly what I wanted. It seemed there was a lot of possibilities, but a pretty steep learning curve.

Twitter on the other hand, was pretty straightforward. just use the twitter4j lib. It is a pure java lib, so you will need to put it in the correct folder structure to get it to work in processing, but in the end I had very good results. Here's a thread with some example code:

https://forum.processing.org/topic/twitter4j-v-2-2-x-experience

and one with how to set it up for processing:

https://forum.processing.org/topic/twitter4j-library-processing-is-not-recognizing-the-library

sorry I don't have experience with facebook, hope this helps!

good luck,

dimkir

Re: Facebook Push Notifications to Processing Sketch

1 month ago

I agree with akiersky that usage of facebook APIs (and IMHO twitter APIs as well) is clunky, not-straightfoward, counter-intuitive and consequently results in prett steep learning curve.

However if you want to dive into depth of it, here's java library which can be plugged into processing:

http://facebook4j.org/en/index.html#introduction

ps. And from this point you're sailing on your own. Good luck.

akiersky

Re: Facebook Push Notifications to Processing Sketch

1 month ago

Good find dimkir!

That looks very promising, and the code examples look pretty similar to Twitter4j, and at the very least it is more familiar than facebook's api.

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