__NOTOC__ Facebook Query Language (FQL) is a query language that allows querying

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user data by using a SQL-style interface, avoiding the need to use the Facebook Platform Graph

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. Data returned from an FQL query is in

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format by default.

History

FQL was first made publicly available in February 2007. FQL was no longer available as of August 7, 2016, when Facebook API 2.0 was no longer available. 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= QL'

References

External links

Official Homepage
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