I'm using Google Books API, to check if a book is in the Google Play Store.
Now I'm wondering my assumption is correct:
If the API returns title with a property value for_sale, this book
title is automatically available in Google Play Store.
Due to the fact that using this url:
https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes?q=isbn%3D$9789460420726&maxResults=1&printType=books&showPreorders=true
tells me that totalitems = 0.
But when I search for the book in Google Play store, I can see that the book is available:
https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Freddy_Willockx_Hier_klopt_mijn_hart?id=_rkZBAAAQBAJ
A URL with a book that has the correct information:
https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes?q=isbn%3D$9789044976830&maxResults=1&printType=books&showPreorders=true
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=9789044976830
Hope someone can help me out.
My guess (and it is just a guess) would be a location issue. Following the link you gave shows me the book, but I cannot purchase it (I am in the UK).
It is possible the API returns for_sale for books that are for sale in the US, or for sale in all locales, or some other definition. Or maybe your API call is not being identified as coming from the correct country.
I have a Google+ comment box on my WordPress blog.
It posts comments specific to the window.location of each post - so it can display comments that were made with comment box at that exact URL (below the comment box).
This works great - I would however like to display the total number of Google+ comments at the top of the post as well...
Is there a way to query the G+ API for this info?
I have poured over the Google documentation and unfortunately I don't speak software engineer fluently!
If you want the link to a post (it's just lorem ipsum right now):
http://www.thedesignlabproject.com/frontPage/post6/
Thanks!!
There are no APIs for the Google+ comments widget. You can perform a search for public comments that were shared to Google+ but that's about it. If you would like to see an API you should file feature requests.
I am trying to create a location-based services Android application. I had successfully getting the user reviews from Google Places API by following the guidance from this link.
https://developers.google.com/places/documentation/details
I also found many posts regarding how to get user reviews from Google Places. But Now I want to create a function which user can insert reviews from my application. Is there anyway to do that?
Thanks.
No. There is no API for writing review. Also the Google+ mobile URL doesn't have the write review option from last year. Its a bug , but Google is not fixing this.
There is only one way to write review is through desktop URL. I have a similar location base app in play store where I have done some workaround to show desktop site to write review.
I'd like to be able to use site comment features on sites that use the Facebook Comments Social Plugin. When I'm logged in to Facebook, I see my profile picture next to the comment box and I can see other comments if any have been made.
When I make a comment, it shows up right away, but doesn't seem to register publicly. If I log out of Facebook, my comment disappears.
More information is coming to light, as well (added March 26, 2013). There are several people affected by this bug who have attempted to get help on Facebook with the issue, so far withouth success.
After I added a fake app to my Facebook developer profile, I was able to post a bug to Facebook, however it has been since closed without being resolved.
Since Facebook comments are now being used as the exclusive online interaction method by several news media outlets, this problem means that some Facebook users are disempowered from being part of the community discussion of news of the day. Does Facebook wish for that to be?
Over time and in conversations with many people, I've learned more about this issue. From the perspective of websites which host the comments plugin, I've learned that comments from certain users, not on the site banned list, are automatically queued by Facebook for moderation.
Also, I recently ran across an answer here on Stack Overflow that indicates that "Fresh" Facebook accounts are designed to be held for moderation in the Comments Plugin, presumably to prevent someone who has just created a Facebook account from using the new account to post spam comments on other websites. I wouldn't consider my account "Fresh" but it is still less than a year old. In the Facebook response which closes the website report they state "The affected user you added to the report has no friends and we suspect the user to be fake and request moderation. This is by design." While it is understandable that Facebook wants to limit the potential for fake users to post in these comments, this metric apparently also snares legitimate users.
Q.Mark, I strongly recommend that site owners not use the Facebook Social Plugin to support commenting on their sites, unless they want to annoy visitors.
Facebook uses an Orwellian blacklist/censorship model which prevents many people from posting comments. Users get no explanation for why their comments won't post. Rather, it's made to look like a malfunction of the web site, and it is only apparent after the users waste their time composing a comment.
There's discussion of the problem here (among many other places):
https://www.facebook.com/help/community/question/?id=10200248881692914
(Copy saved here:
http://burtonsys.com/Why_cant_I_post_comments_on_sites_that_have_the_facebook_social_plugin.pdf )
A FB "Like" button is useful, but site owners should not use Facebook to support comments. Use Disqus, or LiveFyre, or anything else besides Facebook.
(I realize this doesn't solve your problem, sorry! But perhaps if enough site owners dump Facebook for comments then Facebook will stop what they're doing.)
I was able to post a comment, but it didn't show up on my profile even though share on fb was enabled.
To submit a bug, all you need to do is go to developers.facebook.com/bugs and start typing something in the search field, and you'll see an option to create a bug report from there.
I'm using Google Apps for my domain, and trying to enable access to the calendar on my website.
The problem is that I get This feed is read-only error every time I try to add an event to the calendar. Here's where I post to: Link (dead link)
You're using the basic feed, which according to the documentation is always read-only. Use a feed URL ending in private/full or private/full-noattendees instead.
(Disclaimer: I work for Google, and as part of implementing the calendar side of Google Sync I've had some experience of working with the GData APIs, but anything I write here must be taken to be the views of a private individual rather than as official Google policy etc :)