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kenshiro
kenshiro

Reputation: 1

nodejs facebook feeds with delay

i've written a batch in nodejs to get the feeds from a particular facebook user-id; the nodejs (version 0.10.33) code uses node module fb version 0.7.0 (https://www.npmjs.com/package/fb) . the batch's request is scheduled every 5 minutes .

the facebook API response usually gives me back many feeds with a few minutes delay between the request's time and the created_at/updated_at feed values .

however sometimes i get some missing feeds that are visible in the user's page on the request's time.

after many requests and many hours i finally get those missing feeds but the strange thing is that their created_at/updated_at fields values are the same as their publishing time.

some idea ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 107

Answers (1)

kenshiro
kenshiro

Reputation: 1

finally i found that the admin of a facebook page can decide to post his feeds in every date (past and future) he wants by the functions "RESCHEDULE" or "PROGRAMMED".

so, even if the feed is written now (call it time1), it appears on the user's page at the decided date (call it time2) ; the creation date on the page is time1 and the facebook's api for this feed returns created_at/updated_at=time1 .

when at time2 i launch my batch i get back created_at/updated_at=time1 for that feed : this is the final reason i often get a big delay between the feed's publishing date and the batch's request time.

Upvotes: 0

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