HEIDI Labs

This is a general note about how to get the Facebook Status as RSS

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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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