{"id":1695,"date":"2010-10-05T08:26:13","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T07:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/?p=1695"},"modified":"2010-10-05T08:26:13","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T07:26:13","slug":"facebook-friend-feed-via-rss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/10\/facebook-friend-feed-via-rss\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Friend feed via RSS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you use RSS and you have grouped your Facebook friends <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/help\/?page=768\">into lists<\/a>, you can subscribe to all activity in a given Friend List using the following URL:<\/p>\n<p><code>http:\/\/www.new.facebook.com\/feeds\/friends_status.php?id=<strong>your_facebook_id<\/strong>&key=<strong>your_friends_list_key<\/strong>&format=rss20<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Where<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>your_facebook_id<\/strong> &#8211; To find this, go to your facebook <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/notifications.php\">notifications page<\/a> and copy the link called &#8220;<em>Via RSS<\/em>&#8220;. The URL will be something like <code>http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/feeds\/notifications.php?id=668921524&viewer=668921524&key=1c9c72f322&format=rss20<\/code> and &#8220;668921524&#8221; is the id you need.<\/li>\n<li><strong>your_friends_list_key<\/strong> &#8211; To find this, go to your facebook <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/friends\/?ref=tn\">Friends List page<\/a> and click on the list. The URL will be something like <code>http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/friends\/edit\/?sk=fl_447510731524<\/code> and &#8220;447510731524&#8221; is the key you need.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/woodFromTheTrees.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/woodFromTheTrees.jpg?resize=150%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Wood and Trees\" title=\"Separate the wood from the trees\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1708\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/woodFromTheTrees.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/woodFromTheTrees.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>This is useful if you want to make sure you don&#8217;t miss any activity of a particular group of friends &#8211; I don&#8217;t go to Facebook every day but I do go to a RSS reader every day. It is also useful if you want to filter out and ignore a particular group.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how people manage Facebook without using this feature!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you use RSS and you have grouped your Facebook friends into lists, you can subscribe to all activity in a given Friend List using the following URL: http:\/\/www.new.facebook.com\/feeds\/friends_status.php?id=your_facebook_id&#038;key=your_friends_list_key&#038;format=rss20 Where your_facebook_id &#8211; To find this, go to your facebook notifications page and copy the link called &#8220;Via RSS&#8220;. 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