Facebook Importer – Workaround?

[Paula]

Hello,
any update on the facebook importer? Our event calendar relies on facebook events as our main source. Are there any workarounds? Manually checking and uploading is a major inconvenience and the FB importer is the main reason we have been happily using your plug in for the past 2 years

thanks!

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Reporting the same issue as: https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/eta-for-facebook-import/

[Courtney]

Hi there Paula

Thanks so much for reaching out!

Facebook recently announced a range of changes (https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/04/restricting-data-access) to their APIs (the protocols we use to ‘speak’ to their servers and retrieve event information) which are having an effect on a number of our users.

As part of this, a number of new restrictions were applied to their Events API, which is the specific protocol Event Aggregator uses in order to import events, organizers, and venues. These changes went live with little notice to providers such as ourselves. At this point, it does not seem possible to reliably import any events, even if you created and ‘own’ events on Facebook and have linked Event Aggregator to Facebook using those same credentials.

This is frustrating for you, and for developers like us.  As Facebook continues to alter what it allows us to access, we will continue to pursue a path forward for Event Aggregator to import Facebook events.  We will continue to keep https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/ea-fb-privacy-policy and https://theeventscalendar.com/event-aggregator-status/ updated as this unfolds.

Unfortunately, since we rely upon Facebook’s API to access data, we have no workarounds at this time to offer.

Please let me know if you have any other questions!

Thanks
Courtney 🙂

[Paula]

Hello,
I read somewhere that if you were interested in an event on Fb their was a
possibility that it would import?

I just realized that I can add other pages events to our facebook business
event tab ( here is how – https://www.facebook.com/help/802612399854497 )

is their a way to import events from my own business page?

Paula

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[Courtney]

Hi Paula

At this time, we have no confirmed workarounds. A few users report if they have personally expressed interest in an event and authenticated their site with their personal Facebook, it may work. However, those cases are still only getting fragments of the data that they really want. I really wish I had better news.

We will continue adding weekly updates to https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/ea-fb-privacy-policy.

Thanks
Courtney 🙂

[Support Droid]

Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it to avoid confusion with other topics. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

Thanks so much!
The Events Calendar Support Team

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