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This only works with fully public profiles – try accessing the profile while logged-out of Facebook first. | |
Start with the username for a user. Let's try "thestrokes", from <https://www.facebook.com/thestrokes> | |
Note that you have to provide a user agent; it doesn't like curl's default. Also use -L to follow redirects. | |
curl -L -A 'Firefox' https://graph.facebook.com/thestrokes | |
gives us this: | |
{ | |
"id": "167528651335", | |
"name": "The Strokes", | |
"picture": "http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-ash2/373039_167528651335_1089499614_s.jpg", | |
"link": "https://www.facebook.com/thestrokes", | |
"likes": 2739917, | |
"cover": { | |
"cover_id": "10150631284076336", | |
"source": "http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/551697_10150631284076336_1014793644_n.jpg", | |
"offset_y": 46 | |
}, | |
"category": "Musician/band", | |
"is_published": true, | |
"website": "http://www.thestrokes.com", | |
"username": "thestrokes", | |
"genre": "Rock", | |
"band_members": "Jules - vocals\nFab - drums\nAlbert - guitar\nNick - guitar\nNikolai - bass ", | |
"record_label": "RCA Records/Rough Trade Records", | |
"talking_about_count": 18157 | |
} | |
Use the id provided in a second call: | |
curl -L -A 'Firefox' https://facebook.com/feeds/page.php?id=167528651335&format=json | |
This gives us that page's public posts in JSON. Also try format=rss20 |
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