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How to embed private messages on my site?

I know how to embed a feed with a specific id. I already did it. Now I would like to implement the following functions: if the user receives a private message, he will appear in the built-in feed. The best option, in my opinion, would be to embed the entire "chat window", but I did not find any sample code on the Internet. How can i do this?

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You cannot embed private messages as you can with feeds because the Yammer REST APIs (including private messages) require authentication through OAuth 2.0. This means that you need to create a Yammer API application that asks your users to log in and allow you to access their messages. The general concept described in their documentation here and here .

Yammer provides several SDKs that you can use, one of them is the Javascript SDK. I have put together a simple example of how you can ask users to log in and then display their private messages. Keep in mind, this is a very simple solution, I just checked it in one individual conversation.

<!DOCTYPE HTML> <html> <head> <script type="text/javascript" data-app-id="YOUR-APP-CLIENT-ID" src="https://c64.assets-yammer.com/assets/platform_js_sdk.js"></script> </head> <body> <span id="yammer-login"></span> <div id="messages"></div> <script> yam.connect.loginButton('#yammer-login', function (resp) { if (resp.authResponse) { document.getElementById('yammer-login').innerHTML = 'Welcome to Yammer!'; } }); var msgdiv = document.querySelector("#messages"); yam.getLoginStatus( function(response) { if (response.authResponse) { console.log("logged in"); var myId = response.authResponse.user_id; yam.platform.request({ url: "messages/private.json", method: "GET", success: function (response) { console.log("The request was successful."); var usernames = {}; response.references.forEach(function(ref){ if(ref.type === "user") { usernames[ref.id] = ref.full_name; } }); response.messages.forEach(function(message){ var msg = document.createElement("span"); msg.innerHTML = usernames[message.sender_id] + ": " + message.body.parsed + "<br/>"; msgdiv.appendChild(msg); }) }, error: function (response) { console.log("There was an error with the request."); console.dir(private); } }); } else { console.log("not logged in") } } ); </script> </body> </html>

The API endpoint response messages/private.json is a JSON file that you can go through. It contains information about the message and the users participating in the conversation.

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