Facebook Query Language

Facebook Query Language
Influenced by
First appeared	February 2007; 17 years ago (2007-02)
Platform	Facebook Platform
Website	developers.facebook.com
SQL

Facebook Query Language (FQL) is a query language that allows querying Facebook user data by using a SQL-style interface,^[1] avoiding the need to use the Facebook Platform Graph API.^[2] Data returned from an FQL query is in JSON format by default.

History

FQL was first made publicly available in February 2007.^[3] FQL is no longer available as of August 7, 2016, when Facebook API 2.0 was no longer available.^[4] Facebook API versions newer than API 2.0 do not support FQL.

Example

In the following query, four different types of data are retrieved from a single table (status) and for a single user ("me"):

SELECT status_id,message,time,source FROM `status` WHERE uid = me()

This query can run by querying the Facebook graph endpoint /fql with the parameters set to q=[FQL]

References

^ "Facebook Query Language (FQL)". Facebook for Developers. Archived from the original on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
^ "About Facebook-FQL". Tag info. Stack Overflow. Retrieved 2012-05-18.
^ Steinberg, Ari (February 26, 2007). "FQL". Facebook. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
^ "Changelog - Graph API". Facebook for Developers. Retrieved 2018-05-12.

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