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<h2 id="history">History</h2> <p>FQL was first made publicly available in February 2007.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> FQL was no longer available as of August 7, 2016, when Facebook API 2.0 was no longer available.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> Facebook API versions newer than API 2.0 do not support FQL. </p> <h2 id="example">Example</h2> <p>In the following query, four different types of data are retrieved from a single table (status) and for a single user ("me"): </p> SELECT status_id,message,time,source FROM `status` WHERE uid = me() <p>This query can run by querying the Facebook graph endpoint <i>/fql</i> with the parameters set to <i>q=[FQL]</i> </p> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://developers.facebook.com/">Official Homepage</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Facebook Query Language (FQL)". Facebook for Developers. Archived from the original on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2018-05-12. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110717031107/http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20110717031107/http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"About Facebook-FQL". Tag info. Stack Overflow. Retrieved 2012-05-18. <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/tags/facebook-fql/info" target="_blank">https://stackoverflow.com/tags/facebook-fql/info</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Steinberg, Ari (February 26, 2007). "FQL". Facebook. Retrieved 2018-05-12. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook/fql/2245872130/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook/fql/2245872130/</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"Changelog - Graph API". Facebook for Developers. Retrieved 2018-05-12. <a href="https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/changelog/" target="_blank">https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/changelog/</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>