So just to keep everyone posted on what I am working on I have been learning how to make a WordPress plugin out of my Facebook Notes comments extractor and yesterday it successfully pulled in its first comments from Facebook and added them to my database.
I was quite excited.
However, I noticed a couple blogs were not listing and neither were there comments. As it turns out … was being turned into one character and ‘ were also being changed into another version of themselves in UTF8 and when I was querying the database obviously the strings were not matching.
Then! the replace functions I wrote to counter this were not changing it!
Finally I resorted to regexp and the exact same replace query in regexp did what the C string style replace would not. Now it works perfectly (for me anyways) and I’m going to give the plugin to a couple people who have been following this and see if t works for them or erases their blogs entirely!
what exactly does this shit do?
It will take these comments and put them back into their original blog at http://www.philtopia.com
Congrats!
Please let me know (http://www.collinli.com/contact, or you have my e-mail from this comment) about this ASAP!
Any chance on grabbing a standardised format of comments (i.e.: RSS), so you wouldn’t need to patch it up every time Facebook changes?
there is no comment RSS, otherwise the people before me and myself would have already used that as it is waaay easier.
Found a bug:
It doesn’t pick up carriage returns for me.
Suggestion:
Link to their FB profile?
Phil,
I’d love to help test this out. Let me know if I can.