Facebook RSS feeds have stopped working

Question

We are showing feeds from Facebook on our website. Until yesterday, we were able to retrieve the feeds in JSON format using the URL below:

https://www.facebook.com/feeds/page.php?format=json&id=[id_of_the_page] 

But today I found that the link was broken. Is there a reason for it breaking?

And is there a way that I can access the JSON feed for my page using the new Graph API?

Answer 1

Finally I was able to get the Facebook page feeds back on my website. Here goes the steps I followed to restore the feeds:

Step 1: I logged into Facebook developer portal and created new Facebook Application (Website). You can find the details on how create a Facebook App from the following link: How to Create Facebook App

On the newly created app you will find the "App ID" and "App Secret" values.

Step 2: On my website, I used the "App ID" and "App Secret" to retrieve an "access_token" from Facebook. I used C#, so the line of code I used was:

string access_token = ""; try {     access_token = webClient.DownloadString("https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?client_id=616255239999&client_secret=989898989898acec7c3aabbccddf84b66&grant_type=client_credentials");   } catch {} 

Replace client id with app id and client secret with app secret values copied from the previous step. If the values are correct you will get a response like:

access_token=616255878567492343|UYgAYWXYztpFGRawnZ2VlTE 

Step 3: Now use the access token retrieved from the previous stage to call Facebook Graph API to get the feeds:

string facebookjson = webClient.DownloadString("https://graph.facebook.com/v2.2/1730999949494/feed?access_token=616255878567492343|UYgAYWXYztpFGRawnZ2VlTE"); 

The construct of the URL would like below:

https://graph.facebook.com/v2.2/[your_facebook_page_id]/feed?access_token=[your_access_token_value]

And voila!! You get the feeds from your Facebook page in a JSON response.