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A somehow similar hack I want to do when I have the time: When you have a WhatsApp Web tab opened, it keeps a socket connection opened that gives you information such as your phone battery level. I really want an icon on the Chrome toolbar showing me that charge level.
I had had an idea for a nice iOS app, which would in part rely on listing Facebook posts from your friends. I thought this would be easy enough, so I designed it before I prototyped, which is something I never do.
Sure enough, when I had finished the design and finally got to prototyping, I realised that Facebook simply no longer allow access to the read_stream API endpoint, unless you get authorisation from them (seems like no one does). Info here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/permissi...
Fuelled by ingenuity, and because I had the design ready, I thought I'd try and simply load the user's news feed on a UIWebView, and read the data I need from elements in the DOM. I'm pretty sure this is against FB's ToS and wouldn't fly for long, but I kind of want to give it a go anyway.
I got to a place where I proved it works, but not always reliably and it's certainly hacky.
If you want to give it a go, load up https://m.facebook.com on your favourite browser, and then copy/paste + run the JS code in this jsFiddle (https://jsfiddle.net/Letwernb/), to your console.
It'll list whatever posts it finds on your feed, and give you some info on them. I believe at the moment I'm skipping ads and not so relevant posts, such as "friend shared a link".
I've also got a bit of code that lets me load more posts, until I've reached the 20 I need to display in the app. This is hackier still.
I've got some challenges though. Like I said, it's hacky and relies on FB not changing certain class names, and because the date for each post comes as a string ("2 hours ago"), I need to find a way to convert that back to a timestamp so I can re-order the posts.
Maybe there's an easier way to do what I was trying to, using a similar approach as the one described in this article?
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I've started using a bundled app for messenger.com so haven't looked into blocking them for that. Also use the mobile Messenger app a fair bit. I'd like to switch away from the Facebook platform, but it's seriously difficult to convert people away from it.
Just do it. Seriously, moving away from fb is important, but it won't be seen as such as long as people like you don't flat out refuse to use the crap. It's worked out extremely well personally, drastically cutting down on social noise, thus getting distracted less. Somehow, people who actually wanted to stay in touch, managed to over different channels (of which there's a fuckton; signal being my goto solution).
I'm still on facebook messenger but I mostly off facebook otherwise (and have settings to make it difficult to track pictures of me), and I'm curious to hear a good comparison of messaging software.