Facebook Comment Notifications

[TheDude]

I setup Facebook comments on my site using the iframe setup.  I thought FB would notify me whenever someone comments on my website, but that is not the case.  Now people are commenting and I would have to look through hundreds of pages on my site to reply to their questions.

I searched the web on how to do this, but I am lost when looking at the steps.  Can anyone help provide clear instructions on how to notify me of my website comments on my FB page or by email?

[stefanok]

What type of website are you running? The Facebook Comment, is this running via a plugin or a custom api?

[TheDude]

A regular html/css site using the FB iframe plugin.  Here is an example page of our site using the plugin: http://www.jwsuretybonds.com/surety-bonds/commercial-bonds/auto_dealer_bond.htm

[stefanok]

Ok cool. From the research i did a while ago i found out that this feature was removed from the API.

I cam across this thread which says admins can moderate comments made on their sites, thus i assume you can view comments / get notified before they are publish.

http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/comments/

Look at the section that says Moderation Tools

Pleas let me know if this helped or not.

[TheDude]

Awesome!  I integrated the meta tag so the comments appear in the "Comment Moderation Tool".  I COULD just check on that daily, but it looks like it can notify me further.  Here is what the documentation says...

How do I know when someone comments on my site?

You can subscribe to the 'comment.create' and 'comment.remove' events through FB.Event.subscribe.

Any idea on how to "subscribe" to something?

[stefanok]

basically you will need to add this, making the notify value true, hope this works.
3 down vote accepted

Add the notify="true" attribute to the fb:comments tag.

FB.Event.subscribe('comment.create', function(response)
{
 alert(response);
}

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[stefanok]

Any news? If this helped then please mark this answered for me

[TheDude]

I implemented the subscribe script at: http://www.jwsuretybonds.com/surety-bonds/commercial-bonds/auto_dealer_bond.htm

Unfortunately, the FB php script displays the text and I am not sure the white hat way to hide it from the browsers since they already see the commments in the iframe.

I also found that FB has a variable for 'send_notification_uid', which you can loust your user id to be notified.  I implemented both for now and will see which is better.

[stefanok]

Great, im happy you got it working. Sure, keep it white hat. i would have a look on the Facebook Forums, im sure there are many developers out there with the same issue.

Please keep me updated. Im curious to see how this impacts your traffic.

[TheDude]

Thanks for the help.  It is greatly appreciated!

I have hundreds of dynamically created pages that I am hoping will benefit from more unique content.  Here is an example page: http://www.jwsuretybonds.com/surety-bonds/surety_bond.php?bond_form_id=626&bond_type_id=320

I'll reply here when I know more about the impact.

I searched all over for how to properly hide the output of the FB script, but can't find anything that is guaranteed white hat. 

[stefanok]

Any time, keep on rocking and thanks for the link.