On 08/01/2018 13:11, Richard Light wrote:
>
> On 08/01/2018 11:39, Cristiano Longo wrote:
>>
>> However, going back to the original topic:
>>
>> Facebook API allows to programmatically put posts on the wall of a
>> public page. You an automate publishing of external links in a RSS
>> via for example IFTTT.com .
>>
>> However, it seems that Facebook does not allow to publish events in a
>> programmatic way
>> (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/event), as
>> instead eventbrite does (see POST /events/ in
>> https://www.eventbrite.com/developer/v3/endpoints/events/).
>> Personally I share the events I organize using the open iCalendar
>> format which can be added with any Calendar client (for example
>> google calendar which is present in all Android phones). In addition
>> I publish a post on the an RSS feeds (I used this for IFTTT) but I
>> don't like this :) .
>>
> This is a 'push' strategy: presumably it would also be possible to
> have a 'pull' strategy where you put the material onto FB and then
> extract a copy for deployment elsewhere using the FB API?
Yes, you can extract events from facebook via API. It causes some
"representation" issues such as for example how places and organizers
are identified in your internal system. In addition information about
licensing and rights of data in the facebook knowledge graph are not
really clear. An example of application which extracts data about events
from facebook is https://isamuni.vii.ovh/ .
I must say that using facebook as primary source for publishing events
of course will cause lock-in .
CL
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