Question

Do you know if is there any way to collect last user’s post on personal wall/timeline?
I need to know how many and which youtube videos has been shared by an user, reading them from his open graph profile.

I’ve never wrote any facebook app, but using the Open Graph Explorer seems that this kind of information is available if the user has set to “public” the privacy options of a post that contains a Youtube video.

My question is: could a third party app ask for the permission to read that kind of information? Could it have access to these posts also if they are not set as “public” by their owners?

EDIT: Could an app have access to user’s posts like another friend of that user?

Answer 1

You can read the user’s wall by creating an app with the read_stream permission and after the user grant you access by hitting the me/feed connection. But creating a ‘listening’ tool app is not recommended, if your app has no value for its users then you may need to rethink your app mission.