First thing is to note that Facebook is nightmare to develop with. Then you need to register your app to obtain the ID, to obtain the Access Token

> Why a nightmare?

Poor documentation, unfriendly data format... they also have this habit of changing things without telling anyone

The habit of changing everything is due to some guys creating scripts then posting it on http://userscripts.org

It was cool to see the script which lets you view photos of people who are not your friends.

If I had time i would work on these clever javascripts.

> ok so once i have the ID then what?

Request a token. Once you have it then call an API using URLLoader

This is how you'd start

var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader(new URLRequest("https://graph.facebook.com/PAGE ID/feed?access_token=ACCESS TOKEN"));
            loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, loadComplete);
}
        
function loadComplete(e:Event):void {
            trace(e.target.data);
}

So all i have to do is display that code, decode it intto json and then put it into a text field? which  thanks to the help of other people i understand now, but in that code where do i put my acess token????

Facebook returns the data in JSON so you will need to decode it using JSON class by Mike Chambers, just like the way I showed to you for Twitter.

Unlike Twitter, Facebook JSON data is Object so cast the decoded data to Object.

The other difference is that Facebook data is little more complex than Twitter data - there are Likes, comments, Likes to a comment, comments to a comment, etc - so the parsing is little more involved.

Access Token is needed when you call the API. I already showed it to you in my previous post

Sure. I did tell you to get the ID and Token - have you got them? If you do not have them you can't get the feed.

Can you trace the JSON feed using the code above?

There isn't much to it... Say the Page your accessing has the ID 12345678910, and the Access Token you obtained is 123456789123456|aBcDefgHiJKl_12a3C4DE5F6GH, your call to the API would be:

https://graph.facebook.com/12345678910/feed?access_token=123456789123456|aBcDefgHiJKl_12a3C4DE5F6GH

It's the Page ID, not your ID. Try it in the browser first - no need for Flash to test the URL.

That cannot be the whole data, it's just a segment as you said. Did you try it in the browser?

Ah sorry I misread your post - I thought that's all you received! So you received the JSON data, that's good

Then just decode it to an AS object. Facebook data object has "data" key, whcih holds an Array of wall posts. Once you get to that Array just iterate it to extract the messages.

import flash.net.URLLoader;
import flash.net.URLRequest;
import flash.events.Event;
import com.adobe.serialization.json.JSON;
 
var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader(new URLRequest("https://graph.facebook.com/XXX/feed?access_token=XXX"));
loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, loadComplete);
 
function loadComplete(e:Event):void {
    processData(e.target.data);
}
 
function processData(data:String):void {
    var facebookFeed:Array = JSON.decode(data).data as Array;
    for(var i:uint, feedCount:uint = facebookFeed.length; i < feedCount; i++){
        trace(facebookFeed[i].message);
    }
}

You should get a bunch of messages in trace.

What kind of positions?

import flash.net.URLLoader;
import flash.net.URLRequest;
import flash.events.Event;
import com.adobe.serialization.json.JSON;
import flash.text.TextField;
import flash.text.TextFieldAutoSize;
import flash.geom.Point;
 
var positions:Vector.<Point> = new Vector.<Point>();
positions.push(new Point(20, 90));
positions.push(new Point(20, 140));
positions.push(new Point(20, 190));
positions.push(new Point(20, 240));
positions.push(new Point(20, 290));
positions.push(new Point(20, 340));
positions.push(new Point(20, 390));
 
var facebookAPI:String = "https://graph.facebook.com/XXX/feed?access_token=XXX";
var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader(new URLRequest(facebookAPI));
loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, loadComplete);
 
function loadComplete(e:Event):void {
    processData(e.target.data);
}
 
function processData(data:String):void {
    var facebookFeed:Array = JSON.decode(data).data as Array;
    for (var i:uint, feedCount:uint = 7; i < feedCount; i++) {
        var textfield:TextField = new TextField();
        with(textfield){
            x = positions[i].x;
            y = positions[i].y;
            width = 400;
            autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
            wordWrap = true;
            multiline = true; 
            text = facebookFeed[i].message;
        }
        addChild(textfield);
    }
}

Do you mean you want to post a link to Google Maps to your wall? If so you'd POST message=

"http://maps.google.com/maps?q=38.714008,+-122.41675&iwloc=A&hl=en&ll=3 7.714008,-122.4167&output=embed&z=13" to https://graph.facebook.com/PROFILE-ID/feed

See http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/

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Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.pateriaprima.co.uk/