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.
FQL was first made publicly available in February 2007.[3]
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]
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