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Asked: 2026-06-03T08:45:57+00:00

Is it possible to create a web site and, with JavaScript, read the feed

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Is it possible to create a web site and, with JavaScript, read the feed from a Facebook page and display it to my sites visitor without them having to login, or even have Facebook for that matter.

I’m getting lost in the Facebook documentations 🙁

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  1. Editorial Team

    Thanks to @mch here commes version that uses php as a proxy to read a Facebook feed with JavaScript.

    Place a file called proxy.php on your server and add this code:

    <?php
// always add this header to ensure the JSON is output in the correct format
header("Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT");
header("Cache-Control: no-cache");
header("Pragma: no-cache");
header('Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8'); 

$graphUrl = $_POST[graphUrl];
if ($graphUrl == "") {
    $graphUrl = "https://graph.facebook.com/facebook/feed/";
}

//App Info, needed for Auth
$app_id = "1234567890";
$app_secret = "0000011122234334445556aaass";

//retrieve auth token
$authToken = fetchUrl("https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?type=client_cred&client_id={$app_id}&client_secret={$app_secret}");

//Echo back json to read client side.
echo fetchUrl("{$graphUrl}?{$authToken}");

function fetchUrl($url){
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER,false);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 20);
    $retData = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch); 
    return $retData;
}
?>

    Change app_id, app_secret to your apps ids. Create apps here https://developers.facebook.com/apps/

    Create a HTML file next to your proxyfile. Add this code:

    <!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>FB reader</title>
</head>
<body>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        $(document).ready(function() {

            var timeout = 5000,
                load_error;

            load_error = function (jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown) {
                if (errorThrown === "timeout") {
                    alert('Server bussy');
                } else {
                    alert('error: 404', textStatus + ": " + errorThrown);
                }
            };      

            $(document).ready(function() {
                console.log('Loading from Facebook...\n');

                //Change data: {graphUrl: 'https://graph.facebook.com/iambounty/feed'},  to what ever you want.
                $.ajax({
                    type: 'POST',
                    url: 'proxy.php',
                    data: {graphUrl: 'https://graph.facebook.com/iambounty/feed'}, 
                    timeout:  timeout,
                    error: load_error,
                    success: function (rv) {
                        var data = rv.data,
                            len = data.length,
                            i,
                            out = '';
                        for (i = 0; i < len; i += 1) {
                            if (data[i].description) {
                                out += data[i].description + '\n\n';
                            }
                        }
                        console.log(out);
                    }
                });

            });
        });
    </script>
</body>
</html>
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