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1NAME
2  Facebook.par - Facebook support for BarnOwl
3
4DESCRIPTION
5  The Facebook module implements Facebook support for BarnOwl.
6
7SYNOPSIS
8  (1) Run ":reload-module Facebook" inside BarnOwl, if the module has
9  not been loaded already.
10
11  (2) Run ':facebook-auth'.  Follow the instructions in the admin
12  message.  BarnOwl will ask you to log in via an OAuth URL, and run
13  ':facebook-auth $URL' where $URL is the URL you were redirected to.
14
15  This token will persist across BarnOwls until you change your
16  Facebook password or you revoke permissions for Barnowl at:
17    http://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=applications&app_id=235537266461636
18
19  (3) Start receiving wall updates in Barnowl!
20  You can post updates with the ":facebook" command.
21
22INFELICITIES
23  * BarnOwl will not receive all comments for news feed items, only
24    comments for items that were recently published.  There is not
25    currently a way to see starks for conversations that you did not
26    participate in, and the only way to see starks for conversations
27    you did participate in are Facebook's email notifications.  (This
28    is a deficiency of the Facebook API, see http://bugs.developers.facebook.net/show_bug.cgi?id=18594.)
29
30  * By default, BarnOwl will not display posts from organizations (such
31    as bands you have liked) or application invites.  This is a
32    judgment of taste from the original author.  This is not currently
33    configurable.
34
35  * Users and applications that you have hidden via the Facebook
36    web interface will show up in the BarnOwl stream.  (This appears to
37    be a deficiency of the Facebook API, see
38    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6405364/facebook-api-access-hide-posts-from-settings).
39    Users are encouraged to work around this by using traditional Zephyr
40    filters.
41
42  * We are missing support for some notable features, including
43    messaging (Facebook has not publically released the API for this,
44    though we could sign up for the whitelist), events (seeing
45    unresponded to events requires a custom FQL query
46    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4752967/facebook-api-only-returns-25-events-max),
47    notifications (not supported in Graph API yet).
48
49  * Apparently Facebook now has a 'music' post type. Handle it.
50
51WISHLIST
52  * Smarter name de-duplication (see Facebook/Handle.pm for details.)
53  * URL minification.
54  * Multiple accounts.  (Does anyone do this? I don't think so...)
55  * Zephyr class mirroring.
56
57POLLING
58  Facebook.par polls for normal messages once a minute. To disable
59  polling, you can unset the 'facebook:poll' variable in BarnOwl.
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