facebook.request()

Type Function
Library facebook.*
Return value Event
Revision 2017.3060
Keywords facebook
See also fbconnect
Implementing Facebook

Overview

Get or post data to the logged-in Facebook account. Can be used to post messages and photos to the account and friends' accounts. Can also be used to get user data and recent posts.

The request comes back as a fbconnect event that is sent to the listener function which was registered with the call to facebook.login().

Gotchas

Please see the [Implementing Facebook][guide.social.implementFacebook] guide for important iOS and Android-specific notes.

Syntax

facebook.request( path [, httpMethod, params] )
path (required)

String. The Facebook Graph API path, for example "me", "me/friends", or "me/feed".

httpMethod (optional)

String. "GET" or "POST". If not specified, defaults to "GET".

params (optional)

Table. Table of key/value pairs passed as arguments to the Facebook API call. For more information, see this document.

The following could be used to post a message to the user's account:

facebook.request( "me/feed", "POST", { message="Hello Facebook" } )

Example

Please see the Implementing Facebook guide for code examples and usage details.