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Short Summary

Facebook Reader reads data from Facebook by invoking a FQL query.

	Important
	Due to the changes in the Facebook Platform API, we dropped the support of the FQL option in CloudConnect (the Facebook Reader). Only the Graph API option is available. Check your graphs in CloudConnect, and make sure that they are using Graph API.

Component	Data source	Input ports	Output ports	Each to all outputs [ 1)]	Different to different outputs [ 2)]	Transformation	Transf. req.	Java	CTL
Facebook Reader	Facebook	1	1
[ 1)] Sending each data record to every connected output port [ 2)] Sending data records to output ports according to Return Values of Transformations

Facebook Reader retrieves records from the Facebook. The component requires a Facebook connection to connect to a target Facebook account. Please see the Chapter 30, Facebook Connections for more details about creating a Facebook connection.

A valid FQL query must be provided in order to retrieve data from Facebook. Here is an example:

			SELECT metric, value FROM insights WHERE object_id=223468111011932 AND metric='page_stories' AND 
			end_time=end_time_date('2012/10/13') AND period=period('week')
		

Figure 53.3. FQL Query

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Ports

Port type	Number	Required	Description	Metadata
Input	0			any
Output	0			any

Facebook Reader Attributes

Attribute	Req	Description	Possible values
Basic
Facebook connection		Facebook connection
FQL query		Valid FQL query