Facebook – How to get news feed using Facebook graph api

Alright - this is a little bit hacky but I can't see any otherway. In your news feed you will see an item along the lines of:

{
         "id": "123456789_3453453455345334",
         "from": {
            "name": "A Friend",
            "id": "123456789"
         },
         "to": {
            "data": [
               {
                  "name": "A Friend",
                  "id": "123456789"
               }
            ]
         },
         "picture": "PICTURE_URL",
         "link": "http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3453453455345334&set=a.10151233554845639.123456.123456789&type=1",
         "name": "Mobile Uploads",
         "caption": "10 new photos",
         "icon": "ICON_URL",
         "type": "photo",
         "object_id": "3453453455345334",
         "application": {
            "name": "Facebook for iPhone",
            "id": "6628568379"
         },
         "created_time": "2000-06-29T19:56:50+0000",
         "updated_time": "2001-06-29T19:56:50+0000"
      },

The key in there is the link url, which contains:

set=a.10151233554845639.123456.123456789

The first number, after the a, appears to be the album id. We can therefore get the photos from the album by querying:

https://graph.facebook.com/10151233554845345/photos?access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN

If you share a photo that already exists on Facebook then it appears with an extra property called properties:

"properties": [
            {
               "name": "By",
               "text": "A Friend",
               "href": "http://www.facebook.com/a.friend"
            }
         ],

If you share a photo on your wall this is actually an upload and so will not include the properties property

You can use FQL rather then Graph to query the "stream" table. FQL supports order by statements similar to SQL. http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/

For your specific example it would be

SELECT post_id FROM stream WHERE source_id=me() ORDER BY updated_time DESC

Obviously you will want to query more then just the post_id, you can find the full list of fields here http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/stream/