Google plus allows for the sharing of a url; and this gets added an activity as an attachment in the activity data. Is there a way when using Activities.Seach() to target the search to the attachment url? I can share a url on g+ and if the url is part of the comment of my post then I can then pull that post when using the activities.search; however if the url is only contained in the attachment, I can't pull any activities with that url. Is there something I'm missing? Any suggestions?
This is actually a known issue with google plus, one that has been requested quite a bit from the development community. https://code.google.com/p/google-plus-platform/issues/detail?id=57
The only real option at this time it to get an aggregate count of +1s and shares as shown here: http://www.helmutgranda.com/2011/11/01/get-a-url-google-count-via-php/
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I need to create an Xcode app that will allow the user to post their input in the TextField and based on that will fetch GitHub repositories that match the query.
I can't even find a base URL for that GitHub API let alone, how to pass the input to the GitHub's search field.
Please help.
The idea of this app is to create a mobile GitHub repository search app that will deliver results based on the user's input.
The GitHub api documentation would be a good place to start looking. It tells you the endpoint to use, the responses and the parameters to query for the request.
To save you digging, hitting this endpoint will give you the repositories for the username you specify - which will be the input from the textField I assume.
https://api.github.com/users/YOUR_TEXTFIELD_INPUT/repos
This link: Reply to Reviews describes the way to retrieve and reply to reviews. The Google Play Developer Reply to Reviews API allows us to view user feedback for our app and reply to this feedback. But I am finding it difficult to get the authorization token. It says I should have got this when I get access to the API.
But after going to the link, I didn't find too many information on this, rather, it has another link which takes me to the page where I have already created a service account.
After summarizing, my question is - I have created a service account and downloaded the key as JSON. But how to get this access_token the given snapshot asking for? The JSON file itself doesn't contain such access_token, rather it contains other information including type, project_id, private_key, client_id etc.
The process is not described directly in the link given in the question. Rather we will follow the steps mentioned in Play Developer API | Authorization
The whole process actually has two major steps:
Making a OAuth 2.0 client ID and downloading it.
Using client_id, client_secret and redirect_uris from this download JSON file to make API call.
Making OAuth 2.0 client ID and getting parameters
In order to do this:
Go to Google Play Console.
Use your play console account to login into it.
Make sure the right project is selected, at top there is a drop-down, where the correct project is supposed to be selected.
Now from + CREATE CREDENTIALS button create a OAuth Client ID and after successful creation you will find it listed under Credentials tab. The Credentials tab is at the left side of the page.
Now download the OAuth Client ID and it will be saved as a JSON file.
Open the JSON file and collect the client_id, client_secret and redirect_uris from there. Here redirect_uris will contain a list of URLs. One of them is http://localhost, we don't need it. Please take the other one, somewhat like urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob.
Now the second step begins:
Make the API call
Now go to the first link I provided in the answer, i.e: Play Developer API | Authorization. We just did the first step under initial configuration. Now the second step begins. Make sure you are using the same browser where you are already logged-in on Google Play Console.
Now fill-up the fields in this link as mentioned in the documentation
with the information we just got (client_id, client_secret,
redirect_uris), remove the ... and put your redirect_uri and
client_id there:
https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth?scope=https://www.googleapis.com/auth/androidpublisher&response_type=code&access_type=offline&redirect_uri=...&client_id=...
Now after filling up your credentials in this link provided paste this link to browser and go to this URL.
This may require you to authorize this request by signing in with your account (with the Google Play Console Account we are using so far).
After authorization you will be given a code parameter similar to 4/eWdxD7b-YSQ5CNNb-c2iI83KQx19.wp619..... (This is also mentioned in the documentation you may follow the steps there).
Now go to the step 4 in the documentation (following is a snapshot):
replace the credentials which are here inside <..> (including < and >) with the information we so far collected. Here <the code from the previous step> is nothing but the code parameter 4/eWdxD7b-YSQ5CNNb-c2iI83KQx19.wp619.... we got.
Now make this API call. To make this kind of API calls you may need to use Bulk edit of Postman software (download and install the software). But if you are not comfortable with this Bulk edit, I am giving you a similar form data in the following snapshot. Just fill up the fields there in Postman and make the API call, (Please note that the method is selected POST):
Also you need not change the grant_type (its value is authorization_code).
Now clicking Send you should get the response which will contain access_token. Following is a snapshot of the response that comes with the access_token we are looking for (snapshot got from the documentation):
This response will come only once (for a certain code), to get another response you may need another code. So, save this response as a JSON from Postman to use it further.
Now you are done! Use this access_token and make API calls to get reply to reviews. More details here. Also please note that you might not get any reviews at all with this call, as this reviews' responses only work for recent time. If you make some recent comment in Play Store under your desired app they will be returned but the older comments will not be returned as response and the response might be blank {} if there are no recent comments. As mentioned in the documentation:
Note: You can retrieve only the reviews that users have created or modified within the last week. If you want to retrieve all reviews for your app since the beginning of time, you can download your reviews as a CSV file using the Google Play Console.
I have submitted a sitemap for my AJAX web application to Google via their Webmaster Tools. The submitted URLs are of the form:
http://www.mysite.com/#!myscreen;id=object-id
http://www.mysite.com/#!myotherscreen;id=another-id
However, even though more than a week has passed since sitemap submission, Google has not indexed the URLs. Google states that the sitemap has been processed, states that 60 URLs have been detected, states that no errors occurred, but does not index any of the URLs.
I have already implemented the AJAX crawlability contract on the server side, where requests containing an _escaped_fragment_ are responded to with a snapshot.
Any help/info regarding why Google is not indexing the URLs would be greatly appreciated.
See GWT SE friendly application
Suggestions include following the guide at http://code.google.com/web/ajaxcrawling/.
Nowadays, you don't need to do something specific for Google anymore, and AJAX crawling scheme has been deprecated been Google.
Just make sure that your website is easy to use for your users, and Google will be able to properly crawl it.
If you want to go the extra mile, however, you can check that article:
* https://moz.com/blog/optimizing-angularjs-single-page-applications-googlebot-crawlers
Is there a way to get Email/Website of a particular place using Google Places API? If this is not possible is there a way other than using Google API?
To retrieve a places website address using Google Places API, you could perform a Places Autocomplete Request with the input parameter value set to the name of the place: e.g.input=Amoeba
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/autocomplete/json?input=Amoeba&sensor=false&key=your_api_key
Then using the reference from the response you could perform a Places Details Request: e.g.
reference=ClRMAAAAVzPUTLym999EXs4mKkpTqEmzX0a2kfXCUs4enTvWMHDd06VLvlzsGOdfrRd2QvkiRWs4sNkraAAJlMdytt4O4kYGoJZn4ENL5Ig5QYyeJmMSECDOGMO1MnDFtqzdqD8oDk0aFJr8_s-Y946QOz24YubPUsmoC2vl
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/details/json?reference=ClRMAAAAVzPUTLym999EXs4mKkpTqEmzX0a2kfXCUs4enTvWMHDd06VLvlzsGOdfrRd2QvkiRWs4sNkraAAJlMdytt4O4kYGoJZn4ENL5Ig5QYyeJmMSECDOGMO1MnDFtqzdqD8oDk0aFJr8_s-Y946QOz24YubPUsmoC2vl&sensor=false&key=you_api_key
This would return the details for Amoeba including if available, the parameter website which would contain the places website address.
Google Places API provides Details requests and responses using your API key.
The tag allows for the google places url for that places
e.g.
http://maps.google.com/maps/place?cid=10704550479004381649
If you wish to harvest website, fax and opening hours information, it can only be done here.
There is no direct api in the Google Places API that will provide that info.
Just as addressComponents are part of the Details response, i assume tags will be added to the Place Details responses from the API to address this problem.
I have been trying to use Google Places API, and I have successful queries, fetching Places details, which has all the address information for the place I want to find, but ironically, there is NO WEBSITE attribute in the returned JSON!
The first version of Local search was MUCH better, and always accurate for searches when you know the business name.
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 :)