Today I am going to show you how to pull your Facebook profile feed or any of your friends public feeds, I have filtered it to get only status, photo, video and link sharing with data type filters. To perform this action you need Facebook extended permission of read_stream. This tutorial can help user who want to make application to use Facebook users shared status videos, images and links and call some action ( send SMS or send email ) on each update.

First of all we need to create Facebook login authentication which we already explain in this post How to Login with Facebook Graph API in PHP now this code explain you how to get feeds in graph api.

config.php

Application configuration file, modify CALL BACK URL, Your App ID and Your App Secret values.

<?php

$config['callback_url']         =   'CALL BACK URL/?fbTrue=true'; //    /?fbTrue=true allow you to code process section.

//Facebook configuration
$config['App_ID']      =   'Your App ID';
$config['App_Secret']  =   'Your App Secret'; 

?>

index.php

Contains PHP code. Get Facebook code and on that code base get access token of current user.

<?php
session_start();
require 'src/config.php';
require 'src/facebook.php';
// Create our Application instance (replace this with your appId and secret).
$facebook = new Facebook(array(
  'appId'  => $config['App_ID'],
  'secret' => $config['App_Secret'],
  'cookie' => true
));

$token_url = "https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?"
        . "client_id=".$config['App_ID']."&redirect_uri=" . urlencode($config['callback_url'])
        . "&client_secret=".$config['App_Secret']."&code=" . $_GET['code'];

    $response = file_get_contents($token_url);
    $params = null;
    parse_str($response, $params);

    $graph_url = "https://graph.facebook.com/me/feed?access_token=".$params['access_token'];
    $feed = json_decode(file_get_contents($graph_url));
?>

This code will get access token and make request to graph api to get news feed.

Returned data will be in json so we have converted json to array and create a grid to view data on website.

<?php
    foreach($feed->data as $data)
    {
        if($data->type == 'status' or $data->type == 'photo' or $data->type == 'video' or $data->type == 'link'){
	        if($data->status_type == 'mobile_status_update'){
                $content .= '
                <table class="container">
                    <tr>
                        <td class="profile"><img src="http://graph.facebook.com/'.$data->from->id.'/picture?type=large" alt="'.$data->from->name.'" width="90" height="90"></td>
                        <td class="text">
                            <strong>'.$data->from->name.' update status</strong><br />
                            <p>'.$data->message.'</p>
                            <a href="'.$data->actions[0]->link.'">View on Facebook</a>
                        </td>
                    </tr>
                </table>
                <div class="clean"></div>
                ';
            }
            elseif($data->status_type == 'added_photos'){
                $content .= '
                <table class="container">
                    <tr>
                        <td class="profile"><img src="http://graph.facebook.com/'.$data->from->id.'/picture?type=large" alt="'.$data->from->name.'" width="90" height="90"></td>
                        <td class="text">
                            <strong>'.$data->from->name.' added a picture</strong><br />
                            <p>'.$data->message.'</p>
                            <p><img src="'.$data->picture.'"></p>
                            <a href="'.$data->actions[0]->link.'">View on Facebook</a>
                        </td>
                    </tr>
                </table>
                <div class="clean"></div>
                ';
            }
            elseif($data->status_type == 'shared_story'){
                if($data->type == "link")
                {
                    $content .= '
                    <table class="container">
                        <tr>
                            <td class="profile"><img src="http://graph.facebook.com/'.$data->from->id.'/picture?type=large" alt="'.$data->from->name.'" width="90" height="90"></td>
                            <td class="text">
                                <strong>'.$data->from->name.' shared a link</strong><br />
                                <p>'.$data->message.'</p>
                                <table class="link">
                                    <tr>
                                        <td valign="top"><a href="'.$data->link.'"><img src="'.$data->picture.'"></a></td>
                                        <td>
                                            <p>'.$data->name.'</p>
                                            <p>'.$data->description.'</p>
                                        </td>
                                    </tr>
                                </table>
                                <a href="'.$data->actions[0]->link.'">View on Facebook</a>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                    </table>
                    <div class="clean"></div>
                    ';   
                }
                if($data->type == "video")
                {
                    $content .= '
                    <table class="container">
                        <tr>
                            <td class="profile"><img src="http://graph.facebook.com/'.$data->from->id.'/picture?type=large" alt="'.$data->from->name.'" width="90" height="90"></td>
                            <td class="text">
                                <strong>'.$data->from->name.' shared a video</strong><br />
                                <p>'.$data->message.'</p>
                                <table class="link">
                                    <tr>
                                        <td valign="top"><a href="'.$data->link.'"><img src="'.$data->picture.'"></a></td>
                                        <td>
                                            <p>'.$data->name.'</p>
                                            <p>'.$data->description.'</p>
                                        </td>
                                    </tr>
                                </table>
                                <a href="'.$data->actions[0]->link.'">View on Facebook</a>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                    </table>
                    <div class="clean"></div>
                    ';   
                }
            }
        }
    }
?>

In above code we have filtered data and show in grid view with its titles, message and images.

First of all we get all data with type photo, status, video, link and then filtered it by its status type and show them on the website. You can add your status’s comments and likes on the same time. It return you complete activity like your comments, likes, friend added, shared status any where on the Facebook every thing you are doing.

You can also get your friends public updates by doing simple changes like below.

// change "me" to your friend Facebook id
$graph_url = "https://graph.facebook.com/me/feed?access_token=".$params['access_token'];

Simply change me to some id it will get all public statuses of that person.

We are extracting only latest 25 statuses of yours but you can navigate them by given pagination links for next and previous.

Free download code and a live demo available.

I hope this tutorial helps you so please don’t forget to give us your feedback.