Time for action – requesting data based on date
What was happening around March, 2009, on the Facebook Page? If you look at the actual page (http://facebook.com/facebook), you'll have to click on Older posts a lot of times to get back that far.
With the Graph API it's easy. We just use the until
parameter:
https://graph.facebook.com/facebook/feed?until=31march2009
A sample of the JSON returned is shown in the following code:
{ "data": [ { "id": "[redacted]", "from": { "name": "[redacted]", "id": "[redacted]" }, "to": { "data": [ { "name": "Facebook", "category": "Technology", "id": "20531316728" } ] }, "message": "[redacted]", "type": "status", "created_time": "2008-01-21T15:42:11+0000", "updated_time": "2009-05-31T21:26:30+0000", "likes": 2, } ] ...
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