QuantumTom

It’s been a while since I had to figure this one out and Facebook has gone through a few revs since I last tried it.

It’s a bit of a hack. I’ve not been able to identify any official support or documentation from Zuckerberg et al. Maybe it’s deprecated; maybe it’s a REST API experiment gone awry. Who knows?

The first thing you need to do is get your status updates page which is found on “minifeed.php”

The URI format is simple.

http://www.facebook.com/minifeed.php?id=

Where the value for the id parameter is your profile ID. Get this from the URI for your profile page.

Next, get that content in RSS format by appending another name/value pair to the querystring. This one is called “filter” and the filter for RSS is 11. Like Spinal Tap.

So, add it all up and you should have a URI like this:

http://www.facebook.com/minifeed.php?id=625839607&filter=11

At least, that’s what mine looked like.

If you haven’t done so already, sign up for an account at twitterfeed. This is a service that somebody was bound to create sooner or later. You can take any RSS feed and rebroadcast it as Twitter posts. I use it with last.fm, my blogger posts (via feedburner), hulu, and am looking into other REST APIs I can consume into it.

I think you can take it from here.