Facebook Query Language
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Facebook Query Language (FQL) is a query language that allows querying Facebook user data by using a SQL-style interface,cite-ref-1[1] avoiding the need to use the Facebook Platform Graph API.cite-ref-2[2] Data returned from an FQL query is in JSON format by default.
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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
cite-note-11. ↑ "Facebook Query Language (FQL)". Facebook for Developers. Archived from the original on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
cite-note-22. ↑ "About Facebook-FQL". Tag info. Stack Overflow. Retrieved 2012-05-18.
cite-note-44. ↑ "Changelog - Graph API". Facebook for Developers. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
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