On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 11:19 PM, Martin Klapetek <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Mikel, > > thanks for getting in touch! > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 10:07 PM, Mikel Mugica <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Hi everyone, >> >> My name is Mikel and I'm a telecommunications engineer student of the >> Basque Country's University. In order to finish my studies, I needed to work >> on a project, so I finally got in touch with Aleix who offered me working on >> a connection manager for Facebook. As you may know, Facebook is closing its >> XMPP gateway, which means nobody could use that manager by the end of April. >> >> >> After many hours trying to set up everything and having my first contact >> with Qt, I've made my first commit to my repository. By the moment, I've >> been working on the roster and it works "almost" perfect. I mean, the names >> of the people appear and also their IDs, but there's a problem: you'll only >> be able to talk to people that you have already talked from the website. I'm >> sorry, the Graph API only gave me that option if I wanted to get their real >> IDs. > > > Yes, that's a real limitation. We have set of client keys for "KDE > Connector" > which many people used at least once, however that still gives me just 9 > contacts > out of my 334 and those are all people that I've never even talked to on > Facebook > (and with about a third I was even surprised I have them there :D). > > There were actually real ideas of (ab)using the Messaging API but exactly > because of the above it was dropped. Shame, really. > >> >> By the way, I'm really happy to be in such a good project and being >> different from the rest of my classmates who are working on quite boring >> things. I leave you here the link to my git if you want to make me any >> comment or give me any advice. >> >> https://github.com/WeedBilbaoGaming/KtP-facebook-GraphAPI.git > > > Welcome :) It's indeed way more awesome to work on real world projects > rather than dull assignments which you'd delete right afterwards (speaking > from experience ;). However in this case I think you might end up in the > same situation because you simply won't be able to convince all (or at least > some) of your friends to use some Telepathy client in order to have their > name appear in your contact list, which might result in simply giving up > as there will be no real use for it :/ > > I'm happy to support your project nevertheless though, if I can. Although > I know nothing about writing connection managers. > > That said, how are you actually intending to send the messages to > the contacts? > > Cheers
There's this PoC by PovAddict: http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=scratch%2Fnalvarez%2Ffacebook-chat.git Aleix _______________________________________________ KDE-Telepathy mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-telepathy
