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13 years 4 months ago #30679 by kiwi2b
Hi there, general question from a 2,5 user. A major problem for me is providing websites for those who have profiles with many 'friends' and are reluctant to change to pages. This prevents me afaik using Likeboxes to display their status updates to the website.

Any possible way to solve this, short of requiring the person to covert their profile to a page? I notice a part of profiles is a Follow feature (used to be called Subscribe), where non-friends can follow a person's profile updates. Can this feature be used somehow to feed updates to a website?

Here's hoping something like this is possible!
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13 years 4 months ago #30683 by alzander
Nope, the Fan module is works off the Facebook Like-Box and that is only available to Pages.

Pages are meant to be public areas where there can be one-way conversations (the Page posts updates for all users to read). Profiles are meant for two-way conversations, with privacy settings for messages and other things. They aren't meant to have the stream consumed by everyone, generally speaking. If a user has a profile and wants a feed to display, they should also make a Page for their business or whatever it is the site is promoting. That's how Facebook is structured and how they want their different areas to be used.

There are ways to fetch the feed from a user profile in Facebook, but it's not something we currently support out of the box and would need lots of styling/HTML to make it display nice on your site. It's something we may investigate in the future, but for now it'd be something you'd have to develop on your own if you really wanted just a user's profile feed to display on the site.

Hope that answers your question,
Alex
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13 years 4 months ago #30702 by kiwi2b
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Yes, thanks for the info. From what you know, would you estimate it possible to fetch feeds from more than one FB profile and display them in the same stream on a website?
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13 years 4 months ago #30708 by alzander
Kiwi,
Yes, you can fetch the feeds from other user profiles. The only stipulation on that is that you'd need to have a valid authentication token for the user, which JFBConnect will get if they login to your site. A token is valid for 60 days after they log in, so you'd need to make sure they login periodically.

Additionally, there may be another permission required to fetch their profile, but I think the standard authentication is enough to get their public feed posts, which is all I think you're looking for.

Hope that helps answer your question,
Alex
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