Facebook4J is a Facebook Graph API binding library for the Java language licensed under Apache License 2.0.
2.2.2
<dependency>
<groupId>org.facebook4j</groupId>
<artifactId>facebook4j-core</artifactId>
<version>[2.2,)</version>
</dependency>Please see http://facebook4j.org/en/code-examples.html for complete documentation.
At first it is necessary to acquire Facebook instance to use Facebook4J.
You can get Facebook instance in FacebookFactory.getInstance().
Facebook facebook = new FacebookFactory().getInstance();If App ID / App Secret / access token / access permission are listed in facebook4j.properties then, they are set in Facebook instance given back.
See Configuration | Facebook4J - A Java library for the Facebook Graph API for the detail.
When they are not listed, it is setable later as follows:
facebook.setOAuthAppId(appId, appSecret);
facebook.setOAuthPermissions(commaSeparetedPermissions);
facebook.setOAuthAccessToken(new AccessToken(accessToken, null));It is possible to authenticate users using Facebook accounts with your web application.
An example implementation is available at https://github.com/roundrop/facebook4j-oauth-example .
You can get App Access Token via Facebook.getOAuthAppAccessToken() method.
facebook.getOAuthAppAccessToken();You can get Page Access Token as below:
ResponseList<Account> accounts = facebook.getAccounts();
Account yourPageAccount = accounts.get(0); // if index 0 is your page account.
String pageAccessToken = yourPageAccount.getAccessToken();You can publish a message via Facebook.postStatusMessage() method.
facebook.postStatusMessage("Hello World from Facebook4J.");You can publish a link via Facebook.postFeed() method.
PostUpdate post = new PostUpdate(new URL("http://facebook4j.org"))
.picture(new URL("http://facebook4j.org/images/hero.png"))
.name("Facebook4J - A Java library for the Facebook Graph API")
.caption("facebook4j.org")
.description("Facebook4J is a Java library for the Facebook Graph API.");
facebook.postFeed(post);Facebook.postLink() method is simple way to post.
facebook.postLink(new URL("http://facebook4j.org"));
facebook.postLink(new URL("http://facebook4j.org"), "A Java library for the Facebook Graph API");Facebook.getHome() returns a List of user's latest News Feed.
ResponseList<Post> feed = facebook.getHome();You can like a Post, Photo, ... via Facebook.like****() methods.
facebook.likePost(postId);Also, You can unlike a Post, Photo, ... via Facebook.unlike****() methods.
facebook.unlikePost(postId);You can comment a Post, Photo, ... via Facebook.comment****() methods.
facebook.commentPhoto(photoId, "It's a nice photo!");You can search for Posts, Users, ... via Facebook.search****() methods.
ResponseList<Post> results = facebook.searchPosts("watermelon");ResponseList<User> results = facebook.searchUsers("mark");ResponseList<Event> results = facebook.searchEvents("conference");ResponseList<Group> results = facebook.searchGroups("programming");// Search by name
ResponseList<Place> results = facebook.searchPlaces("coffee");
// You can narrow your search to a specific location and distance
GeoLocation center = new GeoLocation(37.76, -122.427);
int distance = 1000;
ResponseList<Place> searchPlaces("coffee", center, distance);// you or your friend's latest checkins, or checkins where you or your friends have been tagged
ResponseList<Checkin> results = facebook.searchCheckins();// To search for objects near a geographical location
GeoLocation center = new GeoLocation(37.76, -122.427);
int distance = 1000;
ResponseList<Location> searchLocations(center, distance);
// To search for objects at a particular place
String placeId = "166793820034304";
ResponseList<Location> locations = facebookBestFriend1.searchLocations(placeId);You can execute FQL via Facebook.executeFQL() method.
Also you can execute multiple FQL in one call via Facebook.executeMultiFQL() method.
// Single FQL
String query = "SELECT uid2 FROM friend WHERE uid1=me()";
JSONArray jsonArray = facebook.executeFQL(query);
for (int i = 0; i < jsonArray.length(); i++) {
JSONObject jsonObject = jsonArray.getJSONObject(i);
System.out.println(jsonObject.get("uid2"));
}
// Multiple FQL
Map<String, String> queries = new HashMap<String, String>();
queries.put("all friends", "SELECT uid2 FROM friend WHERE uid1=me()");
queries.put("my name", "SELECT name FROM user WHERE uid=me()");
Map<String, JSONArray> result = facebook.executeMultiFQL(queries);
JSONArray allFriendsJSONArray = result.get("all friends");
for (int i = 0; i < allFriendsJSONArray.length(); i++) {
JSONObject jsonObject = allFriendsJSONArray.getJSONObject(i);
System.out.println(jsonObject.get("uid2"));
}
JSONArray myNameJSONArray = result.get("my name");
System.out.println(myNameJSONArray.getJSONObject(0).get("name"));You can execute Batch Requests via Facebook.executeBatch() method.
// Executing "me" and "me/friends?limit=50" endpoints
BatchRequests<BatchRequest> batch = new BatchRequests<BatchRequest>();
batch.add(new BatchRequest(RequestMethod.GET, "me"));
batch.add(new BatchRequest(RequestMethod.GET, "me/friends?limit=50"));
List<BatchResponse> results = facebook.executeBatch(batch);
BatchResponse result1 = results.get(0);
BatchResponse result2 = results.get(1);
// You can get http status code or headers
int statusCode1 = result1.getStatusCode();
String contentType = result1.getResponseHeader("Content-Type");
// You can get body content via as****() method
String jsonString = result1.asString();
JSONObject jsonObject = result1.asJSONObject();
ResponseList<JSONObject> responseList = result2.asResponseList();
// You can map json to java object using DataObjectFactory#create****()
User user = DataObjectFactory.createUser(jsonString);
Friend friend1 = DataObjectFactory.createFriend(responseList.get(0).toString());
Friend friend2 = DataObjectFactory.createFriend(responseList.get(1).toString());
:You can attach a binary data to batch request as follows:
BatchRequests<BatchRequest> batch = new BatchRequests<BatchRequest>();
Media file = new Media(new File("...image.png"));
BatchAttachment attachment = new BatchAttachment("file", file);
batch.add(new BatchRequest(RequestMethod.POST, "me/photos")
.body("message=My photo")
.attachedFile(attachment));You can execute the API endpoint that you want to run via Facebook.call****() method.
// GET
RawAPIResponse res = facebook.callGetAPI("me");
JSONObject jsonObject = actual.asJSONObject();
String id = jsonObject.getString("id");
// POST
Map<String, String> params = new HashMap<String, String>();
params.put("message", "hello");
RawAPIResponse res = facebook.callPostAPI("me/feed", params);
// DELETE
RawAPIResponse res = facebook.callDeleteAPI("123456/likes");
if (res.isBoolean()) {
System.out.println(res.asBoolean());
}You can execute the API endpoint that is not supported by Facebook4J via Facebook.call****() method.
You can set various reading options to the method that Reading object includes in arguments.
You can choose the fields you want returned via Reading.fields("fieldName1,fieldName2,...") .
// Getting user's email address only
User user = facebook1.getUser(id1.getId(), new Reading().fields("email"));// Getting 1st-10th results
ResponseList<Post> results = facebook.searchPosts("watermelon", new Reading().limit(10));
// Getting 11th-20th results
ResponseList<Post> results = facebook.searchPosts("watermelon", new Reading().limit(10).offset(10));until/since values can be a unix timestamp or any date accepted by PHP's strtotime format.
ResponseList<Post> results = facebook.searchPosts("watermelon", new Reading().until("yesterday"));You can get next/previous page with Paging object in results via Facebook.fetchNext() / Facebook.fetchPrevious() methods.
ResponseList<Option> page1 = facebook.getQuestionOptions(questionId);
// Getting Next page
Paging<Option> paging1 = page1.getPaging();
ResponseList<Option> page2 = facebook.fetchNext(paging1);
// Getting Previous page
Paging<Option> paging2 = page2.getPaging();
page1 = facebook.fetchPrevious(paging2);Facebook4J is released under Apache License 2.0.
Facebook4J includes software from Twitter4J to handle HTTP request/response and greatly internal logic. You can see the license term at http://twitter4j.org/en/index.html#license