Facebook apps

[Simon Wistow]

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:53:46PM +0200, Zbigniew Lukasiak said:
> It seems that there is a huge demand for Facebook applications.  At
> least this is what my colleague is trying to convince me about, but
> since I have already been approached by a guy interested in this and I
> have already written one app - I have seen all the craze of a gold
> rush in the Facebook programming forums, it is not that hard to do :)
> Are there any Perl programmers freelancing in this market?  How do you
> host your apps?  It is mostly about simple one-page thingies - so the
> up-front cost of setting up your own virtual machine to run your own
> apache with mod_perl is a bit intimidating.

A few years back I wrote something that pulled your friends from FB. 
Getting a permanent session key was actually a bit of a trial involving 
some back and forth with the WWW::Facebook::API author (who was nothing 
but helpful I might add). I can't remember the exact details but it was 
considerably harder to get up and running than Flickr or OAuth at the 
time.

FWIW my code is here

http://search.cpan.org/~simonw/Net-Social-Service-Facebook-0.1/lib/Net/Social/Service/Facebook.pm

but IIRC FB are switching to OAuth anyway so it's probably redundant 
now.

Simon