Facebook API
[This API is no longer available. Its functions have been split among the following APIs: Facebook Ads, Facebook Atlas, Facebook Graph, and Facebook Marketing. This profile is being maintained purely for historical and research purposes.]
The Facebook API is a platform for building applications that are available to the members of the social network of Facebook. The API allows applications to use the social connections and profile information to make applications more involving, and to publish activities to the news feed and profile pages of Facebook, subject to individual users privacy settings. With the API, users can add social context to their applications by utilizing profile, friend, Page, group, photo, and event data. The API uses RESTful protocol and responses are in JSON format.
The Facebook API is a platform for building applications that are available to the members of the social network of Facebook. The API allows applications to use the social connections and profile information to make applications more involving, and to publish activities to the news feed and profile pages of Facebook, subject to individual users privacy settings. With the API, users can add social context to their applications by utilizing profile, friend, Page, group, photo, and event data. The API uses RESTful protocol and responses are in JSON format.
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Specs
Yes
API Key, OAuth 2
No
Single purpose API
No
REST
URI Query String/CRUD
JSON
No
Yes
No
Followers (3530)
Developers (445)
API Mashups (451)
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Social Mirror monitors popular [English language] Twitter accounts, Facebook pages, and YouTube channels and offers basic visualizations of the posting activities of the observed social media...
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ChristmasListApp.com is a free online and mobile tool for making and managing Christmas gift lists. Add gifts to your wish lists from any site with the Christmas List App web application or Chrome...
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Maps channel program information to relevant Twitter account
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How APIs Could Save Facebook's User Experience (and others), But Won't
As various services like Facebook deal with competitors by packing more functionality into their apps, those apps are increasingly experiencing usability issues. In the old days of the API economy, outside developers could leverage a service's APIs to build something better. But those days are gone.
Facebook Continues to Restrict and Shut Down APIs
While the furor around Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal have died down, the world's largest social network continues to make changes to its APIs "to better protect people’s information". Today, it announced that a number of its APIs will only be accessible to apps that have been reviewed.
Social and Financial Among the Most Popular API Categories
One of the more interesting views given by the directory is a look at what sectors are seeing the most growth in APIs. The directory data model allows for one primary category as well as multiple secondary categories and in this article we take a look at which categories are most represented.
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