How to get localized values from Facebook Open Graph API through Koala?

Question

I am using the koala gem in my rails app to use the Facebook Open Graph API. The primary language of the app is German.

Is there a way to set a locale to get e.g. the user's current city in German? Or is there another reliable wa to translate locations?

Phillis

Answer 1

The Graph API supports the passing of the locale parameter. For Germany, this would be de_DE.

You can test this via

GET /me?fields=location&locale=de_DE

compared to

GET /me?fields=location&locale=en_GB

Have a look at

• https://developers.facebook.com/docs/internationalization
• https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/using-graph-api/v2.0#readmodifiers
• https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/guides/internationalization/

Keep in mind that the translations are not always available, especially for OpenGraph objects.

Gwin

Good start! Thanks! But i didnt find any configuration of Koala to set the locale as described :( – Phillis

According to github.com/arsduo/koala/blob/master/lib/koala/api/… you should be able to pass locale=de_DE as argument to the get_object() call. I'm not a Ruby expert... – Gwin

developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/guides/… is no longer working – Trauner