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New Facebook API fetching newsfeed and its comments


is there a way to get newsfeed and its comments with the new changes facebook making on july, 2013 - https://developers.facebook.com/roadmap/

What im trying to do?

i want to fetch latest newsfeed with comments (if any comments on it) with one api call, even if its group api call.

Old Way of doing it:

1) fetching from stream table with comments field (comment field is deprecated now)

2) fetching from graph with comments field (which is removed also now)


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Solution

  • How about using fql? You no longer worry because what you need is get post_id from stream:

    {"query1":"SELECT post_id, actor_id, created_time, message FROM stream WHERE filter_key in (SELECT filter_key FROM stream_filter WHERE uid=me() AND type='newsfeed') AND created_time<=now() LIMIT 5 ","query2":"SELECT post_id, id, fromid, time, text, user_likes, likes FROM comment WHERE post_id IN (SELECT post_id FROM #query1) LIMIT 5 ","query3":"SELECT id, name, pic_square FROM profile WHERE id IN (SELECT actor_id FROM #query1) or id IN (SELECT fromid FROM #query2)"}
    

    Please test with graph API explorer(migration settings of "July 2013 Breaking Changes" is enable), it works as expected(Of course, you need granted permission read_stream).