Chapter 7. FQL Matters
The Graph is a terrific model for accessing the data in Facebook; it manages to take the huge amount of information on the site and make it easy and simple to access it.
Sometimes, however, we want a little extra control and a little extra power. That's where FQL comes in. It's a programming language designed for searching the Facebook databases – and it doesn't use the Graph.
In this chapter we shall:
- Recap the different models of data representation and visualization
- Get comfortable with FQL by using it to grab some Facebook data
- Learn how to use FQL to do (almost) anything we could do with the Graph
- Discover what the Graph is better at than FQL
- Find out how to detect which extended permissions have been granted
- Look at some advanced ...
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