publish for facebook is dead

[snarfed]

they're turning it off in the API altogether. RSVPs today, posts 8/1/2018. https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2018/04/24/new-facebook-platform-product-changes-policy-updates/

it's a brave new world.

[pierreozoux]

sad to see that :/ I'm leaving facebook anyway :)

[snarfed]

i used this remote_api_shell snippet to send FB notifications to all bridgy publish users:

$ setenv FACEBOOK_APP_ID `cat facebook_app_id`
$ setenv FACEBOOK_APP_SECRET `cat facebook_app_secret`
$ remote_api_shell.py brid-gy

import traceback
from facebook import FacebookPage

for src in FacebookPage.query(
    FacebookPage.status == 'enabled',
    FacebookPage.features == 'publish',
  ).iter(offset=5):
  if src.auth_entity.get().type == 'user':
    print(src.label(), src.silo_url())
    try:
      src.gr_source.create_notification(
        src.key.id(),
        'Publish for Facebook will shut down in August. (Backfeed will still work.) So long, and thanks for all the fish!',
        'https://brid.gy/about#facebook-publish')
    except Exception as e:
      traceback.print_exc()

[snarfed]

F8 announcements today and Graph API v3.0 changes may mean facebook backfeed is dead too. not sure yet. details in #814 (comment).

[snarfed]

yup, backfeed is dead too. #826