Get a Facebook stream post by post_id

Question

I want to get the details (contents, user info) of a post that was made on a fan page's stream.

I have the post_id variable but don't see any method/api call where I can pass in a post_id to get the post contents.

The only thing that seems possible is getting the entire stream and comparing the post_id item by item... which is slow and inefficient.

Anyone had this problem or know how to do it?

Answer 1

You should be able to generate an FQL statement and pass it to the Fql.query API method.

Specifically, you want to query the stream table filtering on the the post_id.

If you need extra information, you will probably need to call Fql.multiquery, using the results from the previous queries (as filters once you get the post, it will have the user, and so on, and so on).