I'm starting a side project that will integrate heavily with Facebook. I'm going to use React in the front-end and it will talk to a REST ws made with asp.net core web api.
The idea is that in this API I will make the calls to Facebook. Basically, I want to: login, get/post messages from Messenger, get/post comments and messages from a business page.
I googled a little and didn't find many resources or examples of how to do this integrations other than the Facebook documentation, that has a lot of stuff and I don't know very well where to look.
I also found this SDK for .NET but it looks a bit dated https://github.com/facebook-csharp-sdk/facebook-csharp-sdk and
So, my question is: Is reading the documentations entirely really the best solution?
If anyone could at least give me a hint where to go I'd be really thankful. Would it be better/easier to integrate with Facebook with other stack than c#/asp.net?
Also, if there's any other API, SDK or something already built in .NET that would help with that I'd be grateful.
Thanks in advance.
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Facebook SDK for C# works great for standard .NET
https://github.com/facebook-csharp-sdk/facebook-csharp-sdk
As for .NET Core I think you are out of luck at the moment. Unless you want to port it to .NET Core yourself.
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I am one of .net developers working with Facebook API more then 5 years and we have tried to use "Facebook SDK for C#". It has more issues then benefits. In result we end up with our own small Facebook API client. Basically it is just a "RestSharp" HTTP library, "Newtonsoft.Json" for serialization/deserialization and couple of generic functions where you supply Facebook API endpoint, and specify what class you expect back as generic parameter.
var accounts = client.Get<Accounts>("me/accounts"); var createResponse = client.Post<CreateResponse>("123456779/feed", postToCreate); Answers 3
Automated Customer Service bots are not uncommon in FB, but code is hard to find. I assume you had setup you App's domain and got it reviewed and approved by FB.
I tried to set a chat-bot with both, python and .NET, and I must say the python Api is much more complete, quick, and less buggy than the C# one. But, as far as I know, only the PyApi has integrated reactions (haven't tried them).
Therefore, you will need to do this manually by using the Facebook Api by sending direct GET/POST request triggered by your ASP.NET, or use some kind of inter-language platform such as IronPython to workaround the problem (which basically assembly the call, add the Key and secret, and CURL-it).
As final remark (not a very motivating one), there is documentation for post reactions, but not for message as you can see here (posts), and here (messenger).
Answers 4
You can perform a lot of the facebook operations on the client side using their javascript SDK.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/javascript
In regards to getting up to speed on server side API calls from .NET you can check out the facebook graph api explorer. It can be helpful for discovery.
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