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Casebash
Casebash

Reputation: 118842

Writing an alternative interface to Facebook

Hypothetically, suppose I wanted to produce an alternative user interface to Facebook. How complete could it be and what would be the most important features that couldn't be implemented?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 530

Answers (1)

serg
serg

Reputation: 111285

You probably would be able to reproduce about 5% if not less.

  • You would stuck right away at login form as it cannot be reproduced outside of facebook :) You can't login through API without forwarding a user to facebook web page or popup.
  • You can't register a new user either.
  • Search abilities are very limited. You can't make any detailed searches through Graph API. Using FQL wouldn't help much either as 90% table fields and not indexed and not available for searching.
  • Most data queries are limited to latest 5,000 entries, anything older is invisible to API.
  • What is public on facebook site not always visible to API without extended permissions
  • Like button cannot be reproduced
  • There is no API for creating new applications

and many more...

Upvotes: 2

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