Tuesday, June 02, 2015

Facebook still has RSS feed for Pages. For the moment.

Once upon a time Facebook had RSS support for personal Newsfeeds. That died years ago.

I don't know if Facebook ever had RSS support for Groups; Groups used to be pretty limited. They don't now.

Pages though, they've always had RSS feeds. It's just getting a lot harder to find.

I may be dreaming, but I thought there used to be an official RSS link somewhere. If so it quietly passed on, maybe in the last 6-12 months.

The old Feed URL format still works though:
https://www.facebook.com/feeds/page.php?id=121212
where the number is the Page ID.

The trick is finding the Page ID. Facebook keeps moving it around. As of June 2015 find it here:
  1. Click About link beneath Page photo (Timeline, About, Photos, etc)
  2. Find Facebook Page ID at bottom of the About Link.

4 comments:

anohana said...

Not working...

anohana said...

Not Working

JGF said...
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JGF said...

I had a feeling end was near. The open web era is a distant memory now. Like inline skating. :-(