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But why? Why would anyone set up an API access to PRIVATE messages. That's crazy :o
by b212 9y ago
But why? Why would anyone set up an API access to PRIVATE messages. That's crazy :o
- thinkingemote 9y agoA third party messaging client would need it
- liquidise 9y agoIf Adium, Pigeon, or another collective chat application needed that permission at the time to combine my facebook and AIM lists into a single application, i would have certainly understood it.
- spike021 9y agoOn one hand it's actually a fairly reasonable API. Imagine using third-party AIM clients a decade or more ago. Same kind of thing.
- ex3ndr 9y agoThey never provided ability to send messages. This is a useless thing for AIM clients.
- ImSkeptical 9y agoDo you imagine an instant message client that only sends messages without receiving them?
- simcop2387 9y agoYou used to be able to connect to facebook messenger via XMPP. Combined with this permission, it would have let you retrieve historical messages and add persistence among alternative clients. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9266769 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9266769
- spike021 9y agoActually they did. I used the old OSX iChat to message with friends on FB. Other third party applications had that ability as well.
- RobLach 9y agoFacebook's agenda at that point was get as many developers onto their platform by enticing them with all this access to "data people gave away".
- clusmore 9y agoIn late 2013 I used (I think) the Graph API to pull my own private chat messages so I could see what messages I sent and received on a particular day, to remind myself when certain events happened. I can't think of many good reasons for this API to exist to third parties, but it was pretty handy for my own data.