Question

I am building a website for a client. He has a Facebook page for his business. On the homepage of his site, he wants a feed that will pull in all the updates from his business’ Facebook page.

Now, I felt this would be very easy to implement (maybe it is) but I have scoured the Facebook API for any simple way to do this. I am having a lot of trouble understanding which way I should do this. I’ve settled on using JS to access it, but have no idea where to go from there.

Do I need to create an app? If so, which options do I select so I can access the clients facebook page?

How do I get my app that I’ve created to show up so a user can authorize it? I have so many questions, and Facebook isn’t very good at giving me answers.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

I would suggest you just use the facebook page’s RSS feed.

Example

Take his page URL e.g.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lazery-Attack/6001014870

Take the number at the end of the url off, and plug it into the facebook feeds URL e.g.

https://www.facebook.com/feeds/page.php?format=rss20&id=6001014870

Voila, you now have an RSS feed you can integrate into the website you are building.

URL Breakdown

The URL is broken down the following way:

https://www.facebook.com/feeds/page.php?format={feedFormat}&id={PageID}

Vaid feed formats are:

1. RSS – rss20
2. Atom – atom10
3. JSON – json

Other Examples

Atom

https://www.facebook.com/feeds/page.php?format=atom10&id=6001014870

JSON

https://www.facebook.com/feeds/page.php?format=json&id=6001014870