Facebook feed - post type

Question

I am using FQL to get a users feed, the problem I am having is working out what type of post each item of the feed is.

ie

• status update
• album
• photo
• link
• video

How do I determine the type of post? The docs don't mention post type at all.

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/stream

Answer 1

This was acknowledged as a bug. See https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/223855374358566

Answer 2

You can query on a column not mentioned in the documentation -- type. It will return a number...I think it is something like 46 = status update 56 = wall post, etc. You'll have to figure out the rest for yourself and make some sort of parser.