I completely agree with the facebook comment-like tiddler creation as an option, having it turned on all the time would be a problem, but that is definitely a desirable feature. That is what the fast new tiddler tool that Mat is working on will do, or something similar at least.
The good news is that facebook has (or at least had, I haven't looked in a while) an api for pulling data (posts, comments, likes, etc.) off of their site, and with JavaScript you may be able to get tiddlywiki to pull the data and put it into a tiddler. The bad news is that facebook changes their api constantly, makes it horribly complex and doesn't write usable documentation. I tried to write something to get tiddlywiki to interface with facebook the way I made it send things to twitter and failed miserably. Their documentation may be designed to remove all joy from the world. I have heard from people who have much stronger backgrounds in JavaScript and related technologies than I do that they have the same problems with the facebook api, so getting it to work will probably require significant effort and luck. Google does have a gmail api <https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/> that may let you pull emails from your inbox, and I think that the data is in json format so it would play well with tiddlywiki. >From what I have seen the large social media sites are trying to move away from letting people access their apis for personal use. For most things facebook requires an id that they have to approve, google may do the same thing, so even if we can make this work now I think that there is a good chance that some change in the future would prevent it from being possible. Even with that problem I would like to find ways to make tiddlywiki play well with everything, even if it is just through something like the widgets twitter uses. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/4c912725-bb80-4d9f-90aa-02c51fe20cdb%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
