Question

I’m developing a Chrome extension for message notifications from FB inbox.

The Facebook itself has a Chrome extension, which works well and notifies only of unseen messages. However, I can’t reproduce it’s behaviour without using /me/inbox connection which has the unseen attribute on message thread. The drawback is a rather heavy response (all messages in the inbox + metadata).

Also, it’s an undocumented property. I can see total number of unseen messages by using FQL table unified_thread_count. And I wish I could also see the message unseen status somewhere.

If this can’t be done, what way can I mimic the FB’s chrome notification extension behaviour?

Answer 1

You can use the fields= querystring parameter to limit the fields returned from the query
https://graph.facebook.com/me/inbox/?fields=id,unseen&access_token=