Facebook killed Public RSS feeds; how to obtain a Facebook Page RSS with the new Timeline?

Question

I'm attempting to pull out a page feed to RSS from Facebook, however each time I attempt to try it, I get an error back in the XML with the following :

<![CDATA[
This feed URL is no longer valid. Visit this page to find the new URL, if you have access: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=<FB_ID>&quot;&gt;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=<FB_ID>&lt;/a&gt;
]]>

The URL I'm using is:

https://www.facebook.com/feeds/page.php?id=<fb_id>&format=rss20&access_token=<my_page_token>

I don't have an age restriction set nor a country restriction:
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Further, I've tried it with and without my access token.

As noted in the comments below, the JSON URL is indeed working:

https://graph.facebook.com/<page_name>/feed&https://www.facebook.com/<page_name>/‌feed?access_token=<token>

What is going on here / how do I resolve the problem?

Without knowing the page ID there's nothing we can do to see what your issue is - is the page accessible at https://graph.facebook.com/<PAGE ID>? — Igy
Interesting, the following does indeed give me JSON output: https://graph.facebook.com/<page_name>/feed&https://www.facebook.com/<page_name>/feed?access_token=<token> — ylluminate
Then go to the page on Facebook and see if there's a link there for an updated RSS feed - The pages I have give this link: feed://www.facebook.com/feeds/page.php?id=PAGE_ID_GOES_HERE&format=rss20 — Igy
Here is a good tutorial also: ahrengot.com/tutorials/facebook-rss-feed — Eric Leroy

lu1s lu1s · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-19T22:03:27

I got with the same problem. After looking for a solution I found that FB silently killed public RSS support. (see this post from Jesse Stay)

I understood that I needed to call the API myself and construct the feed (I also need the feed to be parsed by a WP plugin and other stuff.

So, first of all get an API key (also called app id) and download the PHP Facebook SDK.

Then download the Universal Feed Generator PHP class. It will generate all the required headers and xml for you.

Your php script will be like this:

require('lib/facebook.php'); // require your facebook php sdk
include("feed_generator/FeedWriter.php"); // include the feed generator feedwriter file

$fb = new facebook(array(
    'appId' =>  'YOUR_APP_ID', // get this info from the facebook developers page
    'secret'=>  'YOUR_SECRET_KEY' // by registering an app
));
$response = $fb->api('/spreetable/feed','GET'); // replace "spreetable" with your fb page name or username

// create the feedwriter object (we're using ATOM but there're other options like rss, etc)
$feed = new FeedWriter(ATOM);

$feed->setTitle('Spree Table'); // set your title
$feed->setLink('http://spreetable.com/facebook/feed.php'); // set the url to the feed page you're generating

$feed->setChannelElement('updated', date(DATE_ATOM , time()));
$feed->setChannelElement('author', array('name'=>'Spree Table')); // set the author name

// iterate through the facebook response to add items to the feed
foreach($response['data'] as $entry){
        if(isset($entry["message"])){
            $item = $feed->createNewItem();
            $item->setTitle($entry["from"]["name"]);
            $item->setDate($entry["updated_time"]);
            $item->setDescription($entry["message"]);
            if(isset($entry["link"]))
                $item->setLink(htmlentities($entry["link"]));

            $feed->addItem($item);
        }
}

// that's it... don't echo anything else, just call this method
$feed->genarateFeed();

Note from the future (2013-07-09): Don't listen to my answer anymore. It's old. Facebook has a new API with new features on its query language so don't bother pulling feeds. Try to use their API in a more fun, intelligent way :)

Facebook killed Public RSS feeds; how to obtain a Facebook Page RSS with the new Timeline?

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