Hello there,
I am currently working on Contact Importer web app (in PHP) so I will be able to grab email address from a user's account on Gmail, Yahoo, etc and use them for my own evil purposes. Just kidding, my web app is very friendly.
I thought I would start with Google. I found they have a fantastic little API called Google Contacts API which lets a programmer, like myself, to access a user's contacts.
After a couple of hours of struggling and throwing shitty code together, I ran into a few road-blocks. My main question is this:
Is there any way that I can have a user provide their username and password for Gmail on my website and have my code retrieve the contacts without that nasty redirection to a Google login page? It's kind of ruins the whole flow of my web app.
I've looked into AuthSub, and gotten that to work, but of course the catch is that you have to redirect the user to obtain the access token. It looks like OAuth will have this same catch.
The one ray of hope I have is the ClientLogin method of authentication. Again, there is a catch, sometimes Google throws you a CAPTCHA instead of the auth token. Again, the user flow is ruined.
I've noticed that our good ol' friends over at Twitter have it working just fine. Does anyone know how they do it?
Thanks!
My problem is that I have a circle map overlay but I want to be able to move the circle by clicking the map to set the new center, the actual problem is that when I click on the overlay and call my method 'setCenter(overlay, latlng) ' , I get undefined latlang and a valid overlay.
here is an example that can illustrate the problem, if you click the map a polygon is drawn and if you click inside the polygon no new polygon is drawn, if you click anywhere else on the map a polygon is drawn
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/examples/polygon-simple.html
I want to be able to click the polygon and draw a new one making them overlap
thanks
I have been writing a desktop application that uses the Google Drive API v2. I have the following code:
var credential = GoogleWebAuthorizationBroker.AuthorizeAsync
(
new ClientSecrets { ClientId = ClientID, ClientSecret = ClientSecret },
new[] { DriveService.Scope.Drive }, "user", CancellationToken.None
)
.Result;
this.Service = new DriveService( new BaseClientService.Initializer()
{
HttpClientInitializer = credential,
ApplicationName = "My Test App",
} );
var request = this.Service.Files.List();
request.Q = "title = 'foo' and trashed = false";
var result = request.Execute();
The first time I ran this code it opened a browser and asked me to grant permissions to the App, which I did. Everything worked successfully until I realized I was using the wrong Google account. At that point I logged into the wrong Google account and revoked access to my App. Now, whenever I run the same code it throws an exception:
Error:"invalid_grant", Description:"", Uri:""
When I examine the service and request objects, it looks like the oauth_token isn't getting created any more.
I know what I did to mess things up, but I can't figure out how to correct it so I can use a different Google account for testing. What do I need to do?
After two years of hard work we released v3.0 of LLBLGen Pro today! V3.0 comes with a completely new designer which has been developed from the ground up for .NET 3.5 and higher. Below I'll briefly mention some highlights of this new release: Entity Framework (v1 & v4) support NHibernate support (hbm.xml mappings & FluentNHibernate mappings) Linq to SQL support Allows both Model first and Database first development, or a mixture of both .NET 4.0 support Model views Grouping of project elements Linq-based project search Value Type (DDD) support Multiple Database types in single project XML based project file Integrated template editor Relational Model Data management Flexible attribute declaration for code generation, no more buddy classes needed Fine-grained project validation Update / Create DDL SQL scripts Fast Text-DSL based Quick mode Powerful text-DSL based Quick Model functionality Per target framework extensible settings framework much much more... Of course we still support our own O/R mapper framework: LLBLGen Pro v3.0 Runtime framework as well, which was updated with some minor features and was upgraded to use the DbProviderFactory system. Please watch the videos of the designer (more to come very soon!) to see some aspects of the new designer in action. The full version comes with Algorithmia in sourcecode as well. Algorithmia is an algorithm library written for .NET 3.5 which powers the heart of the designer with a fine-grained undo/redo command framework, graph classes and much more. I'd like to thank all beta-testers, our support team and others who have helped us with this massive release. :)
With the continued increase in malware knowing when a website is trouble can save you from a painful experience. If you are looking to add a bit more security to your Chromium-based Browser then join us as we look at the SiteAdvisor for Chrome extension.
SiteAdvisor for Chrome in Action
Once you have installed the extension you should go into the options first. You can choose which style of warning that you would like to receive when encountering a “less then reputable” website. The default setting is for the “Toolbar Icon Warning” but can be easily changed to a full “Webpage Redirect”.
Note: The “Toolbar Button/Icon” does not display a drop-down window when clicked on.
Here is an example if you go with the default and receive the “Toolbar Icon Warning”.
Once again the same website except with the full “Webpage Redirect” in effect…of the two options this is the recommended setting. Notice that details are provided for “why” the website is listed as “less than reputable”.
An example of a website that is all good…nothing but checkmarks and green. Terrific!
There may be those of you who would be more comfortable with a “double layer” of protection while browsing. As you can see here SiteAdvisor and WOT work nicely together. You can read more about WOT for Chrome here.
Conclusion
If you worry about “less than reputable” websites SiteAdvisor for Chrome can help provide a layer of security that will warn you when you are getting ready to “browse” into possible trouble.
Links
Download the SiteAdvisor for Chrome extension (Google Chrome Extensions)
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All the examples of accessing google's CDN use https:// in the URL (including on Google itself) - but this has caused a problem when testing in Safari (certificate problem and also different domain).
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
I have switched to calling it over http instead, but just wondering if this is a mistake or security issue?
Google Analytics is great out of the box already, but you can do much more than just registering your page loads. Especially with all these “Web 2.0” sites it can be convenient to not register page loads, but events! In this blog post I’ll show you how you can use jQuery in combination with Google Analytics to get a great insight on what actually happens on your website while you’re not looking!...(read more)
I generated the following Google Analytics tracking URL to use in a Facebook ad:
https://www.somewebsite.org/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=schools&utm_content=newsfeed&utm_campaign=facebookad3
I know the ad is being clicked (Facebook ad manager data) but the referred traffic is not appearing in my site's Google Analytics data. I think it's because Facebook is doing some weird redirect URL modifying.
Any ideas?
im getting a 404 crawl error for mailto:[email protected], in google webmaster tools under the health crawl errors
surly google should see that mailto: is related to an email not a webpage..
the html im using for the mailto on my page is <a href="mailto:mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>
Whats the best way to resolve this ? Is mailto still widely used or is there a newer alternative ?
I have an awful lot of Google Crawler errors (1000 or so) after I inherited a site that the previous owner migrated without moving much of their content.
Would generating a map of the current site and submitting it to Google help fix this?
Is there any quicker, automated way to eliminate errors other than clicking each and every site error?
Note: I have already tried automating this on my own.
Good morning,
I have recently made a big structural change on my site and the very next day the number of Google impressions went from 75.000 to 3.000, with a proportional drop of traffic from searches.
No URLs were changed, neither were the page titles or descriptions. Everything is exactly the same, but different looking, except that it does barely appear on Google anymore.
Anybody has a clue to why?
Facebook has around 1B user profiles. They can be found by searching in Google. However, I don't think these profiles are linked from anywhere, so how could Google discover them?
As far as I know, sitemaps are not enough for that (http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/5151), as all URLs should be crawlable anyway.
I ask the question as I also have a site with user profiles and would like to make them discoverable.
I want to only display visits to my site which were sent by my Google Adwords campain preferably in the Visitors overview page.
I've tried filtering with 'Advanced Segments' but when I select "Paid Search Traffic" visits goes down to zero. But I do know that most of my visitors at the moment are being sent from Google Adwords.
In this question the answer (which was not chosen) suggested adding a HTTP GET request or an URL shortener, but surly there is a way to do it in Analytics?
I found this article from Google http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55523
However I'm not sure what happens to the data.
Will I be able to determine which domain forwarded to the primary domain using their technique?
Or will it simply tranfers all the relevant keyword and other factors to the primary domain but not which domain was originally landed before the 302 redirect.
What I need to do is track which domain alias are being used.
This question is an exact duplicate of:
Google Structured Data [on hold]
1 answer
I'm so tired of the Google structured data recipe. After some days, it loses the image and the extra information. Then I test it again, and it shows again. Some other days in the future it might go away even if it is still showing in test tool.
What i can do? I tried with RDFa and schema.org microdata.
I have a site with PDFs and Word documents that I know have been indexed by Google because they appear in search results with filetype:pdf (or doc), and if I search for some very specific terms with quotation marks, they appear as well. But they don't appear for general search terms that do exist in the documents.
Is Google a reliable document search engine? If not, are there other options for managing many documents and making them searchable to users?
This is my robots.txt
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Sitemap: http://www.mydomain.org/sitemap.xml.gz
But Google Webmaster Central tells me that robots is blocking access to the sitemap:
We encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap. Please ensure your Sitemap follows our guidelines and can be accessed at the location you provided and then resubmit:
URL restricted by robots.txt
I read that Google Webmaster Central caches robots.txt, but the file has been updated more than 10 hours ago.
In Google Analytics new design, there is an area related to the queries and impressions related to your site. You can get there by following Traffic Sources = Search Engine Optimization = Queries.
However, it now shows zero for the "Site Usage" graph, at the top section, while other areas of Google Analytics definitely show that site has visitors and has been used.
No matter how much I search, I can't find the source of the problem. Does anyone know where the problem might be?
I was wondering if any one could offer me some advice as to the best resources out there (ideally books) on google analytics. I have a basic understanding but have a lot of room for improvement.
The following book "Advanced Web Metrics with Google Analytics" by Brian Clifton, appears to be a good starting but but is already quite dated, even though published in march 2010.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
I am trying to understand how does embed link works in Google+ Stream.
I manage a site and usually every post contains some text and at least an image.
But when I try to embed the link to a certain article on my blog the embed feature does not show the article text and images, but instead it shows the header image of my site plus some other header text content.
Do you know how should I tag or code the article part so that Google+ parser recognize the right thing I want to show?
Most of the visitors to my site are supposed to come from an external link with URL my-site.com/en/var from Facebook ads but Google Analytics shows that most of the landing page is my-site.com/var without en which is the prefix for English version of my site.
Am I missing something to configure Google Analytics? Or is Facebook sending the visitors to the wrong URL (by the preview page of the Facebook ads the URL is set correct with the prefix en)?
Any advice is appreciated.
Just noticed a weird behavior of Google Desktop shortcut Ctrl + Ctrl. This shortcut is supposed to bring Google Desktop search bar to the front.
If Ctrl + Ctrl is pressed the search bar appears, but once you release one of the Ctrl keys it will disappear.
If you hold one Ctrl key, and press the other twice the search bar will toggle it's state.
Do you have any idea how this can be fixed and what can be causing this behaviour?
Google shows up incorrect meta info (title & description) in search engine results for an add domain and the information is of the domain which is the primary domain of the hosting account. I mentioned this fact because add-on domains are in a sub-directory of the primary domain.
Any ideas what could be the reason?
Check this Google search which shows the information of http://katherinegaudette.com/