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This JavaScript client library allows you to make Facebook API calls from any web site and makes it easy to create Ajax Facebook applications. Since the library does not require any server-side code on your server, you can now create a Facebook application that can be hosted on any web site that serves static HTML. An application that uses this client library should be registered as an iframe type. This applies to either iframe Facebook apps that users access through the Facebook web site or apps that users access directly on the app’s own web sites. Almost all Facebook APIs are supported. The exceptions are:

• Photo upload API is not supported.
• profile_setFBML() can only set FBML on the current user’s profile.

Using this client library is easy. You just need to follow two steps:

• Download and save content of http://api.facebook.com/static/xd_receiver.htm somewhere on your web site. For example, you can use http://www.foo.com/xd_receiver.htm for a Facebook App that’s hosted on http://www.foo.com.
• Reference the Facebook JavaScript http://static.ak.facebook.com/js/api_lib/FacebookApi.debug.js in your HTML page.

Here is the sample code for getting the current user’s friends list.

<!-- Output area to show the output from Facebook API -->
<textarea style="width:500px;height:300px;" id="_traceTextBox"><
     /textarea>

<script src="http://static.ak.facebook.com/js/api_lib/FacebookApi.debug.js"
 type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
// Create an ApiClient object, passing app’s api key and
// a site relative url to xd_receiver.htm
var api = new FB.ApiClient('<insert_your_app_key_here', '/xd_receiver.htm', 
   null);
        
// require user to login
api.requireLogin(function(exception) {

    window.alert(“Current user id is “ + api.get_session().uid);
  
    // Get friends list  
    api.friends_get(function(result, exception) {
      Debug.dump(result, 'friendsResult from non-batch execution ');  
    });       
});
</script>

For more information, please visit http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/JavaScript_Client_Library.

Starting tonight, we are converting Facebook Application About pages to use the Facebook Pages infrastructure and format. This change enriches application About Pages and provides additional functionality. Users can become fans of your application and review it. Adding an application is different from becoming a fan of the application, users can choose either or both. Every Application Developer automatically becomes becomes an administrator of the About Page. Admins can send updates to their applications' fans and add other applications (for example, Photos) to your About Page.

This change also improves your application's statistics. These new statistics include more comprehensive usage statistics, detailed HTTP Requests and add and removal statistics.

There are subtle differences between regular Facebook Pages and application About pages. For example, the Reviews application is installed on About pages by default and cannot be removed. Your application’s About page cannot have a Mini-Feed.

All FBML tags that work with Facebook Pages continue to work on the new About Pages.

As for the Facebook API, you can use the Pages.getInfo API call to retrieve information regarding your About Page, but it returns information for these fields only: name, pic_big, pic_small, pic, pic_square, pic_large, type, and has_added_app. The other fields are specific to standard Facebook Pages and depend on the different Page categories. If you use the Fql.query API call to query the FQL page table, it returns the same values as the Pages.getInfo call. The Pages.isAppAdded and Pages.isAdmin methods behave normally, while Pages.isFan does not work on About pages. The Pages.isAdmin call returns the current developers of an application. Since Application About Pages cannot have a Mini-Feed, Feed.publishTemplatizedAction does not work for About pages.

A few developers have created Pages for their applications so that they can use the additional functionality provided by Pages. If you did this, you can transfer the fans and reviews from your existing Page to the new application About Page. Please send us an email at app-about-page@publists.facebook.com with your application ID or application key, Page ID and the developer’s user ID. The developer requesting the migration should be an admin of the original Page. If you choose to migrate your existing Page we will delete it after the migration completes.

Send us your feedback. We'll continue to improve Facebook Platform to serve the interests of both users and developers.

The batch API allows you to combine multiple individual operations into a single request. This will significantly improve your application latency and reduce traffic load on Facebook servers. We have also updated our PHP5 client library to make using the batch API easier. Here is an example that calls the Facebook API in no-batched mode,

$friends = $api_client->friends_get();
$notifications = $api_client->notifications_get();

The above code can be rewritten to use the batch API as follows:

$facebook->api_client->begin_batch();
$friends = & $api_client->friends_get();
$notifications = & $api_client->notifications_get();
$facebook->api_client->end_batch();

We’d encourage developers to try it out and send us feedbacks. To learn more about the batch API check out the documentation at http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Using_batching_API