I was thinking how to write a program which can log me to Facebook and collect the latest status updates of my friends to a linked list. Can this be done for example by PHP or Python without learning Facebook api or do I need to learn that first?
A:
probably scraping their mobile site seem the easiest solution in that case
python seem the best language to deal with it
dvhh
2010-10-18 12:28:42
please note that you are heavily dependent on facebook not changing the mobile website too much. Whereas the api is hopefully more fixed or properly versioned.
dvhh
2010-10-19 16:17:58
+1
A:
To get your friends’ RSS status feed:
- Sign into Facebook
- Go to http://www.facebook.com/notes.php?friends
- Copy the link to “My Friends’ Notes” on the right hand side
- Replace “friends_notes” with “friends_status”
This will give you an RSS feed of all of your friend's statuses.
BeRecursive
2010-10-18 12:45:22
A:
Yes, you can certainly do it using Php but it would be really dirty. The right way is to use the Facebook API.
Spilarix
2010-10-18 12:48:50