Facebook API disappoints
April 28th, 2007I’ve been mildly interested in the Facebook API since its release. Heck, I even wrote down a few ideas of applications that might prove handy. My most recent thought was, “hey, I bet a ton of my Facebook friends have websites that I don’t even know about!” So instead of clicking each of the 100+ profiles individually I considered writing a web app that would retrieve the information for me.
Sadly, after exploring the API documentation, it doesn’t seem like this is possible. I can get my hands on all kinds of information — name, address, status, interests, etc. — but there is no mention of having access to the “website” field. Bah!
I could probably look into this matter further since my research up to this point consists of a quick skim and CTRL+F-ing the documentation… but for now I shall put the idea on hold.
April 28th, 2007 at 7:42 am
And you can’t set the status. Which is really annoying, I would like something in like my system tray to easily set it.
May 1st, 2007 at 10:18 pm
Actually, man, I’ve thought that searching through user’s websites would be quite nice… I’ll give you $5 if you can… ;-)