Question

I have a Facebook page feed that I want to access:

http://facebook.com/feeds/page.php?format=json&id=123456789 (Not a real ID)

When I put the URL in the browser, it works just fine, but when I try to access it using file_get_contents, Facebook sends me to a page that says I am using an unsupported browser. This data is public though so I shouldn’t need an access token to obtain it. Is there an extra step I need to take in order to access this data? I also tried using cURL with no success.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

You can use curl and mimic a browser, see this thread on how to do it.

$header = array();
$header[] = 'Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5';
$header[] = 'Cache-Control: max-age=0';
$header[] = 'Connection: keep-alive';
$header[] = 'Keep-Alive: 300';
$header[] = 'Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7';
$header[] = 'Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5';
$header[] = 'Pragma: ';
$ch = curl_init(); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'YOUR URL HERE');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060215 Firefox/3.0.11 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, true); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_ENCODING, '');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 20);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
echo $result;