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I’ve been working through this problem on StackOverflow (my favorite Q&A website for programming), and you can find my question there.
I couldn’t get the Facebook API to work quite the way I wanted it to. All I wanted it to do was return my current Facebook status, but it would only do it if 1) I was logged in to Facebook and 2) I was logged in as myself or a friend of myself. I couldn’t get any sort of offline_access permission to work, and perhaps I wasn’t looking in the right place.
Instead I went with the RSS feed route. And you can too by following these few steps:
- Get your Facebook status RSS feed here: http://www.new.facebook.com/minifeed.php?filter=11
- Download a PHP function program called StatusPress (meant for Wordpress, but can be used in general). Edit this function to your needs, as it is it gives a list of your most recent statuses with a timestamp included for each one.
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January 4th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
I love the new look. It’s refreshing.
January 5th, 2009 at 11:05 am
it’s so different! But good different.
February 18th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
Hi,
This post was very helpful. However, I’m having major problems changing the StatusPress code to apply to a regular website (that is without going through WordPress). Do you mind sharing code or a brief tutorial how to do this?
Thank you, and thanks again for a helpful post!
February 18th, 2009 at 10:54 pm
Chris,
The StatusPress “plugin” is based off of WordPress’s rss functions package.
If you look at the top of the “plugin” it requires Wordpress’s rss-functions.php, which requires Wordpress’s rss.php library. The rss-functions.php file has nothing in it besides the include, so you really only need the rss.php file.
Therefore, to get it to work: download Wordpress and copy the rss.php file (it should be located under the wp-includes folder) and copy it to the same directory as the statuspress.php.
Then inside of statuspress.php change the line:
require_once (ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/rss-functions.php’);
to:
require_once(‘rss.php’);
You may have to adjust the path in front of the rss.php however the files are relative to each other.
Then you should be able to use the plugin without having wordpress installed on your site.
Let me know if you have any other questions!