In the facebook Graph API. the actual message of the object appears as “message”: or “story”:
Example:
{
"id": "148550335191249_236850319694583",
"from": {
"name": "Sinners Highway",
"category": "Musician/band",
"id": "148550335191249"
},
"story": "Sinners Highway edited their Biography and Band Interests.",
"story_tags": {
"0": [
{
"id": 148550335191249,
"name": "Sinners Highway",
"offset": 0,
"length": 15
}
]
},
"type": "status",
"created_time": "2011-09-02T21:49:50+0000",
"updated_time": "2011-09-02T21:49:50+0000",
"comments": {
"count": 0
}
},
and this one:
{
"id": "148550335191249_258570210855927",
"from": {
"name": "Sinners Highway",
"category": "Musician/band",
"id": "148550335191249"
},
"message": "LETS GET ROCKIN'! ",
"picture": "http://platform.ak.fbcdn.net/www/app_full_proxy.php?app=123966167614127&v=1&size=z&cksum=81c39517d99ba86af6a77df2c4879810&src=http\u00253A\u00252F\u00252Fstatic.bandsintown.com\u00252Fimages\u00252Ffacebook\u00252Fpromote\u00252Fnew-date.png",
"link": "http://bnds.in/q0cSbN",
"name": "Sinners Highway \u0040 The Grange in Nottingham, United Kingdom",
"caption": "Sunday, November 27, 2011 at 6:00pm",
"properties": [
{
"name": "Tickets",
"text": "http://bnds.in/nqft0W",
"href": "http://bnds.in/nqft0W"
},
{
"name": "More Tour Dates",
"text": "http://bnds.in/oZ6VTg",
"href": "http://bnds.in/oZ6VTg"
}
],
"type": "link",
"application": {
"name": "Bandsintown",
"canvas_name": "concertsbybit",
"namespace": "concertsbybit",
"id": "123966167614127"
},
"created_time": "2011-10-21T17:44:12+0000",
"updated_time": "2011-10-21T20:01:31+0000",
},
From what I can tell its completely random whether it is a message or a story.
Does anybody know where and when the story attribute is used and why?
Well from those two examples, the noticeable difference is that the story was an activity that was auto-posted about something the band did on facebook (editing their profile), whereas the message was something that someone has posted on the page wall.