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javafacebookcanvas
lephleg
lephleg

Reputation: 1764

Collect data from third party facebook application

Maybe its a newbie question but I need some info for what I have in mind.

Is it possible to get any kind of data (e.g. text) from a third-party app in facebook?

I checked that facebook apps run within a wrapper called canvas. How can I collect text that appears inside this canvas (after of course I have logged in with an account and run the 3rd-party app)?

I want to write a desktop app that keeps log of the data changes appearing inside the wrapper (the 3rd-party app updates a list every 30 secs).

Thx in advance!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 235

Answers (1)

Anvesh Saxena
Anvesh Saxena

Reputation: 4466

For retrieving or saving the content you can use any of Web scraping tools like Visual Web Ripper.. Though I would suggest you also keep an eye for the data use policy and copyright issues...

Upvotes: 0

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