FQL: Facebook Query Language

February 26, 2007 by  
Filed under So Much Data

FacebookIntroducing, FQL! What is FQL you may ask? FQL is a way to query the same Facebook data you can access through the other API functions, but with a SQL-style interface. In fact, many of the normal API calls are simple wrappers for FQL queries. All of the usual privacy checks are still applied. A typical query looks something like this:

SELECT name, pic FROM user WHERE uid=211031 OR uid=4801660

Read More about the Facebook API here.

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