Show facebook status stream of a dedicated person on a website

Question

Hi all, I've been stomping at this all day :(

I want to display a status feed of both twitter and facebook on my website. For twitter, this is not a problem, as my account is public, I can easily get the feed. Facebook however, is a whole different story! I can't seem to find an easy way to just get my last status updates and display it on my website. The code I currently have, needs authentication of the visitor, and I don't want that!

This is my current code:

$facebook = new Facebook($api_key, $secret);
$stream = $facebook->api_client->fql_query("SELECT message,source,time FROM status WHERE uid = $user_id LIMIT 6");

I've seen several possible solutions, including the RSS feed, but as Facebook keeps changing the way their site works, none of the previous methods I've seen (including those from as late as januari) currently work!

Is there anybody who can provide me with a currently working solution to this (simple?) problem?

Answer 1

"The code I currently have, needs authentication of the visitor..."

Can you host a proxy page or service that accepts anonymous requests from your visitors then makes an authenticated request on their behalf?

Answer 2

Any further information on this? I'm also trying to find out if it's possible to pull in Facebook status updates into our clients site.

Answer 3

You deffinitely need to utilize the authorization before accessing any information of any of friends you may have. That is how Facebook works, it is not as open as Buzz or Twitter.

Answer 4

I figured out how to do this using the offline access feature in facebook. Take a look at the symfony plugin I created for this: http://github.com/pascaldevink/usSocialMediaPlugin

Answer 5

Pascal I have been trying to use your plugin - I'm sure it's great, but I can't figure out how to use it. The documentation makes no sense to me.