Broadcast your Facebook status in Drupal
This is a general note about how to get the Facebook Status as RSS
Download the module
http://drupal.org/project/activitystream_facebook
RSS is one of the most useful tools out there for moving information around on the web. Recently the concept of “micro-blogging†status updates has become very popular with applications like Facebook, Twitter and Pownce.
The only problem is that it is a pain to update many sites at the same time. It is better to pick one and broadcast RSS to the others. I’m going to show you how to broadcast your Facebook status as RSS.
Facebook, for some reason, makes it very difficult to find the RSS feed for your own posted status updates. After some searching and digging, I was able to find the URL.
Be sure you are signed into Facebook and paste the following URL into your address bar:
* http://www.new.facebook.com/minifeed.php?filter=11
You’ll see a page showing “Your Mini-Feed†with a button at the bottom right that looks like this:
Click the button and you’ll go to your RSS feed page.
For me it was http://www.new.facebook.com/feeds/status.php?id=652116749&viewer=652116749&key=5e35fdee0b&format=rss20
From this feed URL we can get few important thing to know.
1. userid
to get the user id you have to extract this part "id=652116749".
for me it was "652116749".
2. key
to get the key you have to extract this part "key=5e35fdee0b".
for me key was "5e35fdee0b".
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I found this page using your add on to the drupal activity stream module. I've installed and tested your addition, but it seems to try to import the wrong rss url. Currently it tries to fetch:
http://www.new.facebook.com/feeds/status.php?id=1067977420&viewer=106797...
instead of the correct url:
http://www.new.facebook.com/feeds/status.php?id=1067977420&viewer=106797...
I thank you for your contribution and would like to know how to make it work.
I found this page using your add on to the drupal activity stream module. I've installed and tested your addition, but it seems to try to import the wrong rss url. Currently it tries to fetch:
http://www.new.facebook.com/feeds/status.php?id=1067977420&viewer=106797...
instead of the correct url:
http://www.new.facebook.com/feeds/status.php?id=1067977420&viewer=106797...
I thank you for your contribution and would like to know how to make it work.
Worked fine for me...Thanks for contributing
Worked for me too! I searched for some tutorials at http://www.picktorrent.com , but found nothing informative, your article helped me much!
Hi I followed all the steps but I dont know whar to do at this point. I got this from the facebook notificacion tab and rss thing: http://www.facebook.com/feeds/notifications.php?id=1450467810&viewer=145...
I'm using activitiystream for drupal and I activated the FB status and I get two textfields:
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Facebook Settings
Facebook Status RSS feed URL:
what should I put here?
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and then
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Feed settings
Feed URL:
and here?
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The My Status minifeed isnt available now but I find that your current feed still works. I tried getting the ID and key from the notifications feed but it shows "This feed URL is no longer valid. Visit this page to find the new URL, if you have access, http://www.new.facebook.com/minifeed.php?status&id=1086055166." text on the page.
Is there another way to get this my status feed?
I have the same problem, but I can not find any solution of the whole entire Web
I wonder... what is the key parameter means and where can I get the value from?
Thanks for any response.
T-Shirt
The link didn't work for me - It went to my facebook page just fine, but the described button was not there. Can't find the dog-gone-thing ANYWHERE. WHY does facebook make this and the API keys SO DIFFICULT to find? -- Any help on this one would be appreciated -- Have they moved the feed somewhere since this article was written? You can contact if you have any help - THANKS...
Lee-vit-Over@hotmail.com