Facebook Syndication Error – Getting your RSS back

June 28th, 2011 posted by codders

If you’re anything like me, you grudgingly use Facebook while all the time warning everybody of the dangers of supporting a company who builds the tools that would all too easily facilitate the installation of a totalitarian regime. Because of your ambivalence to the whole thing, you try not to log in, and you read Facebook status updates through your RSS reader.

That was going pretty well for you until the 15th, at which point Facebook finally switched the RSS status and wall feeds off.

So you build a server to give you your RSS feeds back, using Sinatra, OAuth2 and Haml. It looks like this:

Full source is here: https://github.com/codders/facebook-rss-gen. You need to create your own Facebook app using the Facebook developer tools. You could use the app running on my server, but then I’d be able to log in as you :)