Facebook Query Language

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Facebook Query Language
First appeared February 2007; 8 years ago (2007-02)
Platform Facebook Platform
Website http://developers.facebook.com/
Influenced by
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[edit]

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

FQL will no longer be available as of August 7, 2016, when Facebook API 2.0 is no longer available.[4] Facebook API versions newer than API 2.0 do not support FQL.

Features[edit]

Example[edit]

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[edit]

  1. ^ "Facebook Query Language (FQL)". Documentation. Facebook. Retrieved 2010-12-16. 
  2. ^ "About Facebook-FQL". Tag info. Stack Overflow. Retrieved 2012-05-18. 
  3. ^ Steinberg, Ari (February 26, 2007). "Facebook Query Language (FQL)". The Facebook Blog. Facebook. Retrieved 2012-05-18. 
  4. ^ Facebook Platform Changelog
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