This call
http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Notifications.getList

apparently returns only current session notifications. You can store them in
a table(better) or a comma separated string on localstorage(simpler) and for
each notification check if it exists locally or not.

Wyt?

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Marcos Aruj <[email protected]> wrote:

> Maybe by grabbing the notification list, storing their ids in DB, and check
> for their existence.
>
> Maybe Facebook's API has some utilities to get part of the notifications
> list.
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 5:10 PM, OwenCM <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> I've had a hunt and there's no easy way of finding new notifications,
>> only the list of current ones...
>>
>> I've written an extension that works now, though it does load the
>> facebook home page in the background and then just parses it. Can't
>> find any other way right now, it could be more lightweight to just
>> load up the mobile web page, but it doesn't seem like a much better
>> solution. Oh well, if anyone can see a better way please let me know
>> otherwise I'll just leave it like this :P
>>
>> On Nov 9, 10:22 pm, Adam Shannon <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I don't think that loading facebook.com in the background would be a
>> very good
>> > security/phishing measure. I'm not sure but I would expect that facebook
>> has a
>> > push API, or just parsing an XML file and checking for new notifications
>> would
>> > work.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 14:52, OwenCM <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > > I've been playing around trying to get an extension to work like
>> > > GReader and GMail notifications but for Facebook, but the crux of it
>> > > is there doesn't seem to be a way of getting a feed of only new
>> > > notifications so I can't work a way of picking up notifications...
>> >
>> > > Is there any chance somebody can give me a hand with some code (I'm
>> > > decent HTML and have good background in VB6 etc but I'm no whiz in
>> > > jQuery or anything) which can just loadwww.facebook.comin the
>> > > background and check for new notifications in the bottom left without
>> > > allowing Facebook to remove them as read?
>> >
>> > > Or if anyone has another idea as to how this could work please do
>> > > share :)
>> >
>> > > Thanks!
>> >
>> > --
>> > - Adam Shannon (http://ashannon.us)
>> >>
>>
>
>
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> Marcos Aruj Alvarez
> Ingeniero de Software
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