How to publish to my own page's wall on Facebook

Question

I just can't find out how to do this.

I'm building a website in scala (on google app-engine) and I made a facebook page for it and created a facebook application. All I want to do is to post to my own page's wall. I don't want to use java facebook api, 'cause I think it's way too much to do such a simple thing, but I really can't find a simple way to do so.

Is there a "low level" facebook api?? something simpler that works on posts and gets like twitter api for example?

Or any idea or alternative way to do so will be appreciated.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Facebook has an API that you can use, but it isn't quite as straightforward as the Twitter API. It would be a bit of overkill to write in support, unless perhaps you are prototyping something for someone else to use.

For an individual case, you might be best served by using Posterous- if you setup a Posterous account linked to your Facebook Profile, emailing [email protected] with the sender set as yourself will likely be the easiest way to post content to your wall. With this, you can use any SMTP email-capable library that supports either HTML emails or attachments. An added bonus is that you can also cross-post to twitter and a number of other places from Posterous by altering the destination Posterous email.

Incidentally, Posterous also has an API too, but I don't remember off the top of my head if you can redirect where posted materials are sent through the API. I've only used it for image uploads, myself.

Answer 2

Well, I found there is a REST-like api:

This means that our Facebook method calls are made over the internet by sending HTTP GET or POST requests to the Facebook API REST server (http://api.facebook.com/restserver.php) . Nearly any computer language can be used to communicate over HTTP with the REST server.

Documentation here: http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/API