General Questions/Comments

Permission denied to all viewer resources

FalconD — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:57:30 GMT

Hi there,

I'm developing an application and experience such a problem:
"Permission denied to all viewer resources" error when trying to get viewer data. The error occurs when the app is run by another developer (from app developers list). When I run the app myself or test it with MySpace tools it works fine.

Can anyone help with it? Below there's the source code and trace.

function init() {
MYOS_TRACE = true;

    trace('Trace Info:');
    trace('Init');
    os = opensocial.Container.get();
    dataReqObj = os.newDataRequest();

    var param = {};
    param[opensocial.DataRequest.PeopleRequestFields.PROFILE_DETAILS]=[opensocial.Person.Field.ADDRESSES, opensocial.Person.Field.CURRENT_LOCATION, opensocial.Person.Field.ID, opensocial.Person.Field.NAME, opensocial.Person.Field.NICKNAME, opensocial.Person.Field.PROFILE_URL, opensocial.Person.Field.THUMBNAIL_URL, MyOpenSpace.Person.Field.REGION, MyOpenSpace.Person.Field.CITY, MyOpenSpace.Person.Field.COUNTRY, MyOpenSpace.Person.Field.HOMETOWN, MyOpenSpace.Person.Field.POSTALCODE];
    var viewerReq = os.newFetchPersonRequest(opensocial.DataRequest.PersonId.VIEWER, param);
    dataReqObj.add(viewerReq);
    var ownerReq = os.newFetchPersonRequest(opensocial.DataRequest.PersonId.OWNER);
    dataReqObj.add(ownerReq);

    trace('Sending request to MySpace');
    dataReqObj.send(dataResponse);
    trace('The request has been sent successfully');
}
function dataResponse(data) {
    trace('We got to request callback function');

    try {
        if (data.hadError()) {
            var errorData = data.get(opensocial.DataRequest.PersonId.VIEWER);
            trace('there was an error requesting data from MySpace:');
            trace(errorData.getErrorCode() + '\n' + errorData.getErrorMessage());
            return;
        }

        trace('Reading Viewer info');
        var viewer = data.get(opensocial.DataRequest.PersonId.VIEWER).getData();
        var viewerId = viewer.getField(opensocial.Person.Field.ID);
        var viewerCountry = viewer.getField(MyOpenSpace.Person.Field.COUNTRY);
        var viewerRegion = viewer.getField(MyOpenSpace.Person.Field.REGION);
        var viewerCity = viewer.getField(MyOpenSpace.Person.Field.CITY);
        var viewerHometown = viewer.getField(MyOpenSpace.Person.Field.HOMETOWN);
        var viewerPostalCode = viewer.getField(MyOpenSpace.Person.Field.POSTALCODE);

        trace('Displaying Viewer header');
        heading = 'Hello, ' + viewer.getDisplayName() + ' (ID: ' + viewerId + '. ' + viewerCountry + ', '+ viewerRegion + ', ' + viewerCity + ', ' + viewerPostalCode + ', Hometown: ' + viewerHometown + ')';
        document.getElementById('heading').innerHTML = heading;
        trace('Viewer info displayed');

        var viewerThumb = viewer.getField(opensocial.Person.Field.THUMBNAIL_URL);
        var viewerProfile = viewer.getField(opensocial.Person.Field.PROFILE_URL);
        html = '<a href="' + viewerProfile + '"><img src="' + viewerThumb + '" border="0"></a>';

        trace('Reading Owner info');
        var owner = data.get(opensocial.DataRequest.PersonId.OWNER).getData();
        var ownerId = owner.getField(opensocial.Person.Field.ID);
        var ownerThumb = owner.getField(opensocial.Person.Field.THUMBNAIL_URL);
        var ownerProfile = owner.getField(opensocial.Person.Field.PROFILE_URL);
        var ownerDisplayName = owner.getDisplayName();
        trace('Displaying Viewer and Owner profile images');
        html = html + '<br>You are at: ' + ownerId + ' - ' + ownerDisplayName + '<br><a href="' + ownerProfile + '"><img src="' + ownerThumb + '" border="0"></a>';
    }
    catch (er)
    {
       trace(er.description);
    }

document.getElementById('main').innerHTML = html;
trace('Done');

document.getElementById('loading').style.display = 'none';
}

function trace(msg) {
document.getElementById('message').innerHTML += msg + '<br>';
}

init();
</script>

Trace with error (run by an app developer):

Trace Info:
Init
Sending request to MySpace
The request has been sent successfully
We got to request callback function
there was an error requesting data from MySpace:
unauthorized Permission denied to all viewer resources.

Trace without error (run by me):

Trace Info:
Init
Sending request to MySpace
The request has been sent successfully
We got to request callback function
Reading Viewer info
Displaying Viewer header
Viewer info displayed
Reading Owner info
Displaying Viewer and Owner profile images
Done

Blogs entry on my personal website

Maurizio — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:55:31 GMT

Hi All, I'm new here, I've worked before with API's but never with this one...

I was wondering if it is possible and how to show mySpace Blogs entry on my personal website?

Thanks in advance

Maurizio

how to avoid losing information when posting through a form on safari

gabriel — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:29:24 GMT

hey guys, I have a simple form in my profile to allow my friends to enter their email.

this is the code. The form works great on firefox and IE. but I loose the POST information on safari and chrome. Looks like myspace isn't doing the right redirect (since they rewrite my action url) so when I get redirected I loose all the post params.

Any idea about how to avoid this kind of behavior? Thank you

                        <form action="http://www.sosagabriel.com.ar/resources/myspace/submit.php?userid=65209" method="post">
                            <table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5">
                                <tr>
                                    <td colspan="2"><div align="center">
                                        <p><strong>Signup for our Mailing List</strong></p>
                                          <p><span style="color: #FF0000">*</span> required </p>
                                    </div></td>
                                </tr>
                                                                <tr>
                                      <td valign="top"><div align="right">Email <font color="#FF0000">*</font>:</div></td>
                                      <td valign="top"><input name="email" type="text" id="email"></td>
                                </tr>
                                                                                                                                       <tr>
                                          <td><div align="right"><span class="reportContent">Zip:</span></div></td>
                                          <td><span class="reportContent">
                                            <input name="zip" type="text" id="zip" size="5" maxlength="5" />
                                          </span></td>
                                    </tr>
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             <tr>
                                    <td> </td>
                                      <td><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Add me to the mailing list" /></td>
                                </tr>
                            </table>
                        </form>

how do i reset.

Ali — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:53:20 GMT

i was told that a reset on my developer page would fix my problem but i dont know what that means or how to do this

designing the app

ENYA — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:50:48 GMT

how come i cant figure this out on how to create the app i got it made but i cant do anything about the design and no site helps me understand what to do... please help somone

opensocial is not defined

dan — Fri, 08 May 2009 15:09:07 GMT

So I'm trying to write my first app, but keep stumbling at the first step. I've followed the example (http://wiki.developer.myspace.com/index.php?title=Example_Application:_Hello_World),and pasted this exact code into my profile surface.

<div id='heading'></div>
<hr size="1px" />

<script type="text/javascript">

var os;
var dataReqObj;
var heading = null;

function init() {
    os = opensocial.Container.get();
    dataReqObj = os.newDataRequest();
    var viewerReq = os.newFetchPersonRequest(opensocial.DataRequest.PersonId.VIEWER);
    dataReqObj.add(viewerReq);
    dataReqObj.send(viewerResponse);
}
function viewerResponse(data) {
    var viewer = data.get(opensocial.DataRequest.PersonId.VIEWER).getData();
    heading = 'Hello, ' + viewer.getDisplayName();
    document.getElementById('heading').innerHTML = heading;
}
init();
</script>

However, as soon as I run it, there's a JS error saying, "opensocial is not defined". So the app fails. I keep getting the same with "gadgets" too.I can see in the <head> that the javascript is all included, but it's still not working.

Now I'm a pretty experienced coder, and wonder whatuber-simple mistakeI'm making?!! Arrrgh, it's so frustraiting!

Lack of access to videos?

Martyn — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:26:25 GMT

Hi So I decided to finally get an app up and running on myspace today :) (after prior experience with facebook/bebo/friendster) Extremely confusing and conflicting information everywhere, needs a quick "get started" guide me thinks... Anyway, finally got a php libary up and running against the rest server. So, seeing as i was most interested in videos, i tried out the video functions. 1. Getting a user's videos does not get their favorites, only uploads. There's no function/method which can return a list of the user's favorited videos. 2. You can't get uploads for another profile without them adding your app. Not even fully publically available profiles such as channels. Maybe I'm missing something...but these two features are sorely needed for the videos api.

Test users getting deleted.why?

shobha — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:06:46 GMT

I created an app and I wanted to test it prior to sending it out into the world. The problem is they’re doesn’t seem to be a way to create test accounts on myspace (like you can on facebook) and some of the fake accounts I am creating seem to get disabled by myspace as quickly as I create them. Is anyone else having these problems? Any suggestions?

Change Vanity URL

Jeremy Almond — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:57:00 GMT

So my app is live, and I'm kind of scared to mess with it. I don't have a vanity url set for my apps profile and I'd like to set one so i can give out an easier link for peope to install it. Anybody know if I can add it without breaking my app and sending it to the land of "suspended" death?

2-legged Oauth

SNC — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:17:09 GMT

Hi,

is it possible to get oauth access token without making the authentication via web browser?

I'm working on off_site application, where user gets his Myspace data without having to enter his email/ password on myspace.com, only in my application (which is only java code so far).

Thanx,

Baltramiejus

MyspaceIM Api?

decay — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:00:44 GMT

Hello

I'm developing a tool that currently interact with MSN & Yahoo and i'm trying to extend it to support more instant messengers

For MSN Messenger i was able to use MSNMessenger.tlb and i'm wondering if there is any similar but for MyspaceIM that i can use to integrate MyspaceIM?

Regards

Extract user comments board

George — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:12:24 GMT

Hi there,

I have spent few days trying to figure out the options, but I am still stuck.

I need to extract the data from comments board page like this http://comment.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewComments&friendID=818010 in RSS, Atom or using ruby api.

I found this http://wiki.developer.myspace.com/index.php?title=GET_v1_users_userId_comments, but I'm not sure how do I have to get authenticated, and why since the page is totally public.

Please help.

OAuth signing POST, image uploads

Bemmu — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:22:03 GMT

I'm wanting to upload images to albums over REST. I read the docs, and I'm able to do GET requests to retrieve info about albums etc. just fine, but I don't know how the POST contents affect the OAuth base string that I'm supposed to sign?

The OAuth tool also doesn't support image POST, so cannot use that to see what the correct format is. OAuth spec doesn't seem to say anything about POSTing binary data.

Changing content in profile / home

Bemmu — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:17:00 GMT

I would like to display some daily changing text in the profile boxes of my app. For example "new! check out this feature xyz".

Is there a way to do this without having to submit the app for changes every time the text changes, but on the other hand to avoid hitting my own server to retrieve that piece of text for every time a profile box is displayed?

wha does ''graylisted'' mean?

☆9.7k☆ вяαи∂σи™ ツ — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:45:36 GMT

i typed in my email and i got this thing it said "graylisted" . anyone kno wha its about?

myspace authentication through http request

Sujatha — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:14:41 GMT

Request to Transfer App to Another Developer

Lito — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:51:29 GMT

Hello MDP Team,

I earlier sent a message to Brandon Black to request for the transfer of ownership of an app currently in development to another developer. He responded that he no longer works for MySpace and asked me to contact the MDP Team. I tried to send a message to Donny Mack but he accepts messages only from his MySpace friends.

I would like to request for the transfer of app ownership from me to another developer. I understand and assume that, after this, he can add me later as a developer through the Permissions page of the app.

Here's the info for my request:

App ID: 150696
Old App Owner MySpace ID (my ID): 495882526
New App Owner MySpace ID: 498029128

Thanks in advance MDP Team!

Feelings about other application platforms

luss — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:00:12 GMT

Hi
this is question to all of you, that have experience with application platforms other than MySpace. (Facebook, Bebo, LinkedIn, Hi5, Orkut, Netlog, etc.)

Did you implement app. for MySpacefirst and after that, tried to apply it to different platform ? If yes, then what main problems did you encounter ? Was it rather easy or difficult ?
If you compare MySpace's API with another one, which one was better ? What are pros and cons of each of these APIs ?
What are your feelings about OpenSocial ?

thx
Luk

app upload photos

Arthur — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:55:22 GMT

hey, when users uploaded photos in Myspace Album from my (created) application , in activity stream add message like this "

Hovhannes Safaryan uploaded photos from a mobile phone:" how i can change it ?

Retrieving a users friends albums

Jason — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:32:09 GMT

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Hi,

I'm creating a desktop application that enables a MySpace user to login, authorize my app, and retrieve their albums and corresponding photos. This functionality works fine but I would now like to retrieve the user’s friend’s albums. I have retrieved the users list of friends using the Friends resource and I am trying to pass the retrieved friends user ids to my GetAlbums method but the server always returns an unauthorized error. It works fine with the logged in user but I can never retrieve the user’s friend’s albums?

Is there a special way to retrieve the user’s friend’s albums or is this not possible with the MySpace API? Surely if a user can see their friends albums on the MySpace website the API should allow an application to retrieve this information?

Thanks,

Jason

Profile Data / Friends API

Josh — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:59:51 GMT

Is there an API that allows you to retreive all public info from a user's profile including their age/location etc... as well as their list of friends? Ideally I would like to access this info from C# and not a "MySpace App". It shouldn't require authentication since you can easily browse to people's public profiles without signing in. I could write a screen scraper but am hoping that MySpace API is making this available in a more robust way. I have heard of Google's Open Social and Social Graph APIs but can't seem to figure them out to do what I am asking. Here's the code I would like to be able to write:

Person rootPerson = new Person(<friendId>);

stringDisplayName = rootPerson.DisplayName;

stringCountry = rootPerson.Country;

int friendCount = rootPerson.friendIDs.Count;

int [ friendIDs = rootPerson.friendIDs;

foreach (int friendID in friendIDs)

{

loadData(friendID);

}

etc...

Anyone interested in helping me build my app?

steve — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:08:36 GMT

I have a great idea and can do graphics! I'm really good with HTML but am a bit confused on how to put my app together!

I want it to be like the Dark Wars, Dragon Wars, Vampires type apps...with an option to purchase items, get exp points, and

build land. If I do all the graphics work and explain the app can someone help me format it?

Thanks!

stv

How to Get Online Friends

Pranav P. Thakar — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:09:43 GMT

Friends,

I want to get a list of online friends. Can anyone please help me?

I have tried the following,

$friends_request_params = array(
    'userId' => $userId,                                                                          // Person we are fetching.
    //'groupId' => '@friends?filterBy=@toponlinefriends ',                         // @friends?filterBy=@toponlinefriends for online friends
    'fields' => array('aboutMe','displayName','bodyType','currentLocation','drinker','happiestWhen','lookingFor'),
    'count'=>3
);

Above code gives me following error message:

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'osapiException' with message 'Invalid groupId, allowed types are: @self, @all and @friends' in /home/elanetec/public_html/smartdating/pranav_myspace/osapi/io/osapiRequest.php:59 Stack trace: #0 /home/elanetec/public_html/smartdating/pranav_myspace/osapi/service/osapiPeople.php(33): osapiRequest::createRequest('people.get', Array) #1 /home/elanetec/public_html/smartdating/pranav_myspace/view.php(14): osapiPeople->get(Array) #2 {main} thrown in /home/elanetec/public_html/smartdating/pranav_myspace/osapi/io/osapiRequest.php on line 59

Rather it should produce the list of online friends.

Can anyone please help me?

Thanks.

is it possible to post to a myspace event calendar from an external source?

Steve — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:43:26 GMT

I can't find anything in the REST or OpenSocial documentation on this.

Say a band has a profile on MySpace...

Can I use REST or some other method to post an event to a band's MySpace calendar (given proper authorization) from another website?

Myspace Integration points?

Tony — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:40:05 GMT

I would like to enable my users to post a widget to profile. Is there a way that I can allow them to post the widget directly above or below the music player? How can I accomplish this? Right now, I go to post a widget, the preview comes up fine and asks me where I want to post it and I click the "about me" section and nothing shows up. I guess step 1 is getting the actual posting to work, but I would ideally like the widget to be able to be posted higher on the page. Thanks!