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publish: FB like POSTs sometimes 404 #331
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we're POSTing to e.g. https://graph.facebook.com/NovemberProjectSF_568825249920639/likes, but maybe it should be either https://graph.facebook.com/568825249920639/likes or https://graph.facebook.com/NovemberProjectSF/568825249920639/likes? not sure which yet, or if either will work.
...but sometimes that URL format works. maybe the difference is user id vs username? post object id vs photo? here's an example that worked by POSTing to https://graph.facebook.com/753470156_10155052328930157/likes
thanks to @tantek for the report!
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[-]publish: FB likes sometimes use the wrong API URL[/-][+]publish: FB like POSTs sometimes 404[/+]tantek commentedon Jan 2, 2015
This is very odd as all I did was copy the URL of the hyperlinked date/time from several phosts/photos on FB - confusing that somehow they are treated differently by FB.
snarfed commentedon Jan 2, 2015
ah, no, sorry if i was unclear. bridgy breaks down the
u-like-ofURL you give it, then reconstructs variants when it needs them. the maybe bad URL is agraph.facebook.comAPI URL.tantek commentedon Jan 2, 2015
Just manually iterated through all the likes on http://tantek.com/2015/002/f and of the 10 there, only http://tantek.com/2015/002/f2 and http://tantek.com/2015/002/f3 caused the 404 bug (and consistently so). All the other http://tantek.com/2015/002/f posts (f1-f10) seemed to work fine.
snarfed commentedon Jan 2, 2015
thanks for the info!
snarfed commentedon Jan 21, 2015
looks like this is because the FB API doesn't like usernames anywhere except in bare object lookups. specifically, ids like
NovemberProjectSF_568825249920639definitely don't work. it should be the NovemberProjectSF page id instead.sounds like this is actually the same problem as #349.
snarfed commentedon Jan 21, 2015
confirmed, at least for reading, but should apply to writing too. /276430682493432_568825249920639/likes works, /NovemberProjectSF_568825249920639/likes doesn't.
snarfed commentedon Jan 22, 2015
this is mostly fixed by the changes in #349 and nearby. the part that's not fixed is #350, which is a whole other can of worms. :/
facebook: handle photo album URLs in base_object()
as2.from_as1: convert `urls.displayName` to `attachment.name`