facebook-connect on Blogger July 23, 2009
Posted by suhaskaundinya in API, blogger, development, web.add a comment
There are very few and specific changes that are to be done to enable the facebook-connect service on your blog in blogger.com.
- Create a new application at http://www.facebook.com/developers/createapp.php
- Enter a name for your application in the Application Name field and “save changes”
- Copy the API Key
- Click on the Connect tab and set Connect URL to “Your_Blog_Name.blogspot.com” and “save changes”
- Login to Blogger and go to Blog Dashboard> Layout > Edit HTML
- Look for :
- <html expr:dir=’data:blog.languageDirection’ xmlns=’http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml’ xmlns:b=’http://www.google.com/2005/gml/b’ xmlns:data=’http://www.google.com/2005/gml/data’ xmlns:expr=’http://www.google.com/2005/gml/expr’ >
- Replace it with:
- <html expr:dir=’data:blog.languageDirection’ xmlns=’http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml’ xmlns:b=’http://www.google.com/2005/gml/b’ xmlns:data=’http://www.google.com/2005/gml/data’ xmlns:expr=’http://www.google.com/2005/gml/expr’ xmlns:fb=’http://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml’>
- Look for :
- </head> tag
- Insert just before </head> :
- <script src=’http://static.ak.facebook.com/js/api_lib/v0.4/XdCommReceiver.js?2’ type=’text/javascript’/>
- Look for :
- </body> tag
- Insert just before </body> :
- <script src=’http://static.ak.connect.facebook.com/js/api_lib/v0.4/FeatureLoader.js.php’ type=’text/javascript’/> <script type=’text/javascript’> FB.init("YOUR_API_KEY_HERE", ""); </script>
- Save changes, you are now ready to add Facebook connect to your blog
- Go to : Add gadget and select html/javascript
- Face-book connect button:
- <fb:login-button autologoutlink=”True” length=”short” background=”white” size=”large”></fb:login-button>
- Profile picture :
- <fb:profile-pic uid=”loggedinuser” facebook-logo=”true” linked=”false”></fb:profile-pic>
- Username :
- <fb:name uid=”loggedinuser” useyou=”false”/></fb:name>
- Live-stream box :
- <fb:live-stream event_app_id=”YOUR_APPLICATION_ID” width=”400″ height=”500″>
- Comments :
- <fb:comments width=’480′/>
- Fan Profile :
- <fb:fan profile_id=”YOUR_PAGE_ID” stream=”1″ connections=”10″ width=”300″></fb:fan>
References: http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/
Python interface to Twitter API March 21, 2009
Posted by suhaskaundinya in API, Python, development, twitter.add a comment
There are two python wrappers available for the Twitter API. One is the python-twitter hosted by google code and the other is Python-Twitter-Tools (PTT).
python-twitter has the typical Python interface and simplicity, very easy to install – has a dependency on simplejson. PTT on the other hand is a it more sophisticated and provides an IRCbot along with the code. As expected it has a few more dependent libraries.
General knowledge on setup tools for Python Applications: http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools
For discussions and info on using the Twitter API join twitter-development-talk googlegroups.
