Facebook Feed Ruby bindings¶ ↑

> gem install facebook_feed

• Ruby 1.9.3 or above.

• json, rest-client

> require 'facebook_feed'
> opts = { :feed_id => 123456789, :access_token => "AAACEdEose0cBAHqa7TcU11fyZBHjas26pn9DR0WxEguIzeFeintOZClb78AnhMibZBlRbZBiyVzD5b8rOgeI35cEX55m4rwk3XzBnhkCp0Qrd5cQJd0o" }
> downloader = FacebookFeed::FeedDownloader.new(opts)
> posts = downloader.download_posts if downloader.has_more_posts?
> puts JSON.pretty_generate(posts)

The posts object in the example code above is an array of hash objects like the following

{
  :poster => 'Name of message poster',
  :message => 'Message text',
  :type => 'Type of post',
  :created_time => 'UTC time message was created',
  :updated_time => 'UTC time message was updated',
  :like_count => 'Number of likes the post has',
  :comment_count => 'Number of comments the post has',
  :comments => ['Array of comment data']
}

A comment datum is itself a hash as well. It has the following structure:

{
  :commenter => 'Name of person who made the comment',
  :message => 'Comment text',
  :created_time => 'UTC time comment was made',
  :like_count => 'Number of likes the comment has'
}

Visit the Facebook Group whose feed you want to download. Take the ID from the URL. For example, if the URL is www.facebook.com/groups/1234567/, the feed ID is 1234567.

To obtain the access token, visit the Graph API Explorer at developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer. You’ll see a button that says “Get Access Token”. Click on it, and select the permissions you’ll need to access your group’s feed. If your group is closed, you’ll need user_groups and friends_groups permissions.

1.0.4 (04/18/2013) - Fixed bug with InvalidFeedDownloaderError

1.0.3 (04/18/2013) - Enforced stricter initialization of FacebookFeed::FeedDownloader

1.0.2 (04/17/2013) - Fixed bug that deals with Facebook Group feed posts with no comment data

1.0.1 (07/26/2012) - Released Ruby bindings for Facebook Groups feed API