Facebook API updates: developers can hide & unhide comments on a page post via Graph API

Facebook on Thursday announced updates to its application programming interface (API). Now, through the Graph API, developers can hide and unhide comments on page posts. Facebook wrote about API version 2.2 in its changelog: Developers may now hide and unhide comments on a Page Post via the Graph API: POST /v2.2/{comment_id}?is_hidden=true to hide, POST /v2.2/{comment_id}?is_hidden=false to unhide. You can determine if a comment is hidden, or if you have the ability to hide/unhide the comment by checking the is_hidden or can_hide fields on thecomment node. Here's a sampling of other changes to the API: A new token_for_business field makes it easier to identify the same person across multiple apps owned by the same business: In addition to the Business Mapping API, there is now a new token_for_business field on the user object. This emits a token which is stable for the same person across multiple apps owned by the same business. This will only be emitted if the person has logged into the app. For games developers, this property will also be emitted via the signed_request object passed to a canvas page on load. Note that this is not an ID - it cannot be used against the Graph API, but may be stored and used to associate the app-scoped IDs of a person across multiple apps. Also note that if the owning business changes, this token will also change. If you request this field for an app which is not associated with a business, the API call will return an error. The Page node has a new edge to manage subscriptions for realtime updates. In previous versions, any app which was added as a Page Tab also received realtime updates. From v2.2 onwards there is a dedicated endpoint for managing these subscriptions: GET /v2.2/{page-id}/subscribed_apps returns the apps subscribed to realtime updates of the Page. This must be called with a Page Access Token. POST /v2.2/{page-id}/subscribed_apps subscribes the calling app to receive realtime updates of the Page. This must be called with a Page Access Token and requires the calling person to have at least the Moderator role on the Page. DELETE /v2.2/{page-id}/subscribed_apps stops the calling app from receiving realtime updates of the Page. This may be called with a Page or App Access Token. If called with Page Access Token, it requires the calling person to have at least the Moderator role on the Page. The feed_targeting parameter is now supported when publishing videos to a Page: POST /v2.2/{page_id}/videos?feed_targeting={targeting_params}. This lets you specify a number of parameters (such as age, location or gender) to help target who sees your content in News Feed. This functionality is already supported on POST /{page_id}/feed so we're extending this to videos too. For more information, read the changelog.

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Facebook API updates: developers can hide & unhide comments on a page post via Graph API

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