I'm currently working on a project that detects when someone is listening to a song on Spotify and sends a message to that person based upon that song being in a playlist.
I couldn't see a spotipy function to get this data, even though I can see it on the spotify application itself, any pointers?
Accessing friends' activity feed is something that many people have been requesting for a long time, however Spotify does not seem to have any plan to open it up unfortunately.
Currently, the only existing workaround I am aware of is to scrape the internal API used by the client, as is done here: https://github.com/valeriangalliat/spotify-buddylist
Another option for your project would be to use last.fm APIs if the user is on it and you know the handle -- which is less than ideal of course.
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I'm designing a custom team tab using React that calls third party API, I need after executing the API successfully, user gets notified . What is the best way to achieve this? I used Bot in my project, but not sure how can I call it from my custom tab class. I'm aware of the existence of proactive messaging, is it the only way to do it? If it is, a pointer on how to implement it to a custom tab would be appreciated.
If you're wanting to message the user 1-1 (like in the personal app), then proactive messaging is definitely what you need (inside a Team, there are other options), and considering you have the bot already in place that's perfect. The only thing you might be missing are the details required to send the actual proactive message (the best time to get them is when the bot is first installed by the user). In particular, you need ConversationId and ServiceUrl.
With regards the concept of Proactive Messaging, basically once the bot is installed, and you have the required values, you can -send- the message from any backend code at all. That can include, for example, custom tab's backend api. You need to identify the user, which you can do using the Teams Context (it's not the safest way but it's the easiest), and then look up the values in your own backend store (e.g. database or whatever) to get the ConversationId and ServiceUrl, then just message the user in your backend.
My app is built in reactjs. There are a lot of "how tos" for the twilio video javascript sdk, but very little for people who are building in reactjs.
My problem is this: I have successfully implemented the construction and subscription of my users to a room. This is the process:
User 1 lands on user 2's profile, and decides to call. He presses the "call" button.
The server creates a call in the database, contacts Twilio with his info, and returns a twilio token to him.
He then connects to the room, publishes his local audio and video track to it, and waits the invitee
User 2's browser is informed of the call through a push notification from firebase messaging. He is sent a Twilio token from the server in that message, as well as information about the call and the room. His browser pulls up the "incoming call" page.
Assuming he answers, he begins publishing his own local audio and video tracks, and connects to the room.
The video and audio tracks of the other participant are attached to a couple react refs pointing to specific divs on the dom.
The video call is now progressing.
All this works well. However, my question is how do I access the actual room object at this point? Specifically, I want to mute the audio and video tracks based on input from the user. There are enable and disable methods in the Twilio library, but how to get to the tracks? The room creation and set up templates I have found online, which work, do not produce an object which can be modified, after the initial set up. All I get from let room = Video.connect... is a promise. If I use the Video.connect method AGAIN, it seems overkill - why contact Twilio again with my token when I already have a room in progress - and doesn't seem to work when I try.
Any help would be appreciated!
I'm creating my first application that requires me to update the app based on user input. I've been searching for the best way to send input to me. For example, I have a button that when the user presses I would like to send me the information they've added to a text field. Being new to this, I thought this could be done by simply sending the information to a specified email, but from what I've researched I will need some sort of database. Looking through the Apple Developer Documentation I don't even know which topic I should be looking at to figure this out, any help or direction would be very helpful!
You need to setup a server (using an API) to receive the information.
Usually you will use a webservice to receive the info from the app, although there are other ways to do that.
Sending an email through iOs would require the user to accept the email that is being sent, so doesn't look like a good idea.
Take a look at some options available to create webservices (django rest framework or flask), Google's Firebase also can be handy in this situation, since is only integrating it with your app and storing the data you want to store, with easy integration for Authentication and user tracking.
Back in the day Facebook used to let you define URLs that were something like http://facebook.com/send_a_message/user/55/pre_fill/Hi there. When you clicked that link Facebook would open up its Messenger with a "Hi there" message ready to be sent to user 55.
But then Facebook decided that "pre-filling" was bad, and outlawed it across all their APIs. Now there are a bunch of different ways to initiate a Messenger chat session, but they all amount to "start a chat with user 55", not "start a chat with user 55 using some information".
The thing is, I'd like to somehow pass information along with the link. For instance, I might want to have three different links on three different pages, and I want my chatbot to be able to respond differently based on which page the user came from. Since I can't "pre-fill" a message (eg. "Hello, I just came from page A"), I'm wondering if there is any other way to pass auxiliary information.
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I'm wondering if there's any way I can possibly provide a user with a link that, when they click it, starts up a chat session with my chatbot user, and somehow passes information to it. Using an intermediate proxy (ie. having the link go to my server, and then have my server start the chat somehow) would work, but only if I can associate the information with the user (ie. it doesn't help to know "page A" if I can't associate that with the user once they start chatting).
After researching further it would appear that the answer to my question is no: there is currently no way to pass-along supplemental information.
But here's the good news: when I filed a bug about this (which it turns out I should have filed as a feature request, sorry Facebook) I got a response saying something to the effect of "we couldn't tell you that we are currently developing this, even if we were", which I'm going to optimistically choose to interpret as a sign hope means that this functionality may be coming in the future.
I want to create an online quiz website using Silverlight.
When the registered users are logged in, they can view and answer the quiz once per page.
To proceed to the next question, they must push next button, and the new data downloaded from the server.
The previous questions are not cached. Thereby everytime the question is requested, the question will be reloaded from the server again.
My question is how to do my scenario above in silverlight?
Thank you in advance.
Now that your intent is clear, you want to prevent discovery of the content in your assembly. The answer is you can't really protect your assembly. In order to run it the client needs to fetch it, if it can be fetched then the would be hacker can get it, trying to limit caching isn't really a prevention.
However the solution is to not put senstive stuff in your assembly to start with. Place code server side to do the sensitive stuff and access that code via a service interface such as WCF or Web services or even plain old XML in XML out posting.
You could use IsolatedStorage to store some state related info (and you can even encrypt it before you save if you want - it's your storage, do what you want with it). Another way to store state information is to use cookies, here and here.
The "state" information that i refer to is the state and/or progress of your Silverlight app, i.e. you can track where the user got to in the questions, and avoid requesting questions they have already completed. Both of these types of storage can be deleted by the end user, if they know what they are doing. But you shouldn't let that worry you - if they want to cheat, then let them.
Create the silverlight app to request the questions via a Web Service. As long as you're using a proper web service and not faking it in some way. The browser is not going to cache the webservice response.