Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

April 25, 2012ByJeff Bowen

Since last Wednesday's update, we shared a Developer Spotlight on Diamond Dash Mobile, explained how users can now discover native Android apps through Facebook, and streamlined getting the publish_stream and publish_actions permissions.

Facebook Offers Now Accessible via the API

Last week, we expanded the Facebook Offers beta to five more countries. Offers allows businesses to publish deals and coupons to their fans through their Facebook Pages. We have now added support creating and managing Offers via the API. Check out the /offers connection of the Page object, the Offer object, and the Offer FQL table for more information. Please note, Offers is available in self-service to a limited set of Pages in New Zealand, Singapore, Australia, Japan, and Turkey. We plan to launch Offers more widely in the coming weeks. To learn more, please see our recent blog post.

Real-time Insights

This week we made the following Insights metrics available in "real-time" (refreshed approximately every 15 minutes):

page_storytellers
post_stories
post_storytellers
post_stories_by_action_type
post_storytellers_by_action_type
post_impressions
post_impressions_unique
post_impressions_paid
post_impressions_paid_unique
post_impressions_organic
post_impressions_organic_unique
post_impressions_viral
post_impressions_viral_unique
post_impressions_by_story_type
post_impressions_by_story_type_unique
post_consumptions
post_consumptions_unique
post_consumptions_by_type
post_consumptions_by_type_unique
post_engaged_users
post_negative_feedback
post_negative_feedback_unique
post_negative_feedback_by_type
post_negative_feedback_by_type_unique

For more information on these and other metrics, check out the Insights FQL table documentation.

Upcoming Breaking Changes on May 2, 2012

offline_access Permission Removal
The offline_accesspermission is deprecated and will be removed July 5, 2012. Until then, you can turn this change on or off using the "Remove offline_access permission" migration. On May 2, 2012, we will automatically turn the migration to "enabled" for all apps. If this breaks your app, you can turn the migration back to "disabled" until July 5, 2012 when it will be permanently "enabled" for all apps. Please see the Removal of offline_access Permission doc for more details.
Removal of group_type and group_subtype columns from group FQL table
We will remove the group_type and group_subtype columns of the group FQL table. Please ensure that your apps are not utilizing these columns.
Removing support to claim Domains using Page ID - Originally scheduled for April 1st, 2012
We will remove the ability to claim domains with a Page ID. The recommended option for claiming domains is with an App ID or User ID and existing domains that have been claimed will continue to work fine. After claiming domains, owners are able to view Insights or run Domain Sponsored Stories. See the Insights documentation for more on the updated domain claiming flow.