Facebook Graph API – What Does Each Field Mean in Different Contexts
I’m having troubles with the Facebook Graph API. I want to display a facebook feed in a twitter-like, simplistic fashion, but facebook has quite a lot of fields when you call the “/me/home” connection – message, link, name, caption, description, source, type. These are all relevant to what is displayed. Here is a table that I obtained after analyzing a few messages:
type
message
link
name
caption
description
source
status
text message
empty
empty
empty
empty
empty
link
text message
url
page title
base url
exceprt
empty
video
text message + url or empty
url or empty
video title
base url
video description
player url
I’m not sure how stable is this data – it may change soon. Also, I’ve observed a few cases when the link is stored in the name field, or in the description field (after source:). I’ll update the above table when I have more data.
I’m having troubles with the Facebook Graph API. I want to display a facebook feed in a twitter-like, simplistic fashion, but facebook has quite a lot of fields when you call the “/me/home” connection – message, link, name, caption, description, source, type. These are all relevant to what is displayed. Here is a table that I obtained after analyzing a few messages:
| type | message | link | name | caption | description | source |
| status | text message | empty | empty | empty | empty | empty |
| link | text message | url | page title | base url | exceprt | empty |
| video | text message + url or empty | url or empty | video title | base url | video description | player url |
I’m not sure how stable is this data – it may change soon. Also, I’ve observed a few cases when the link is stored in the name field, or in the description field (after source:). I’ll update the above table when I have more data.
Hi,
Interesting articles you have here!
I’d like to follow your blog in my feed reader, but I can’t seem to find any feeds on your site.
Am I too sleepy because it’s Friday, or you don’t have any installed ? š
http://techblog.bozho.net/?feed=rss2
Hahah, “stable”. That’s a good one. Facebook + Changes without Notice + Breaking = Inevitable
Just wanted to say lol Dave.
Currently reading your other post about the facebook API and its problems. Seems like you know what you’re doing.