How to visuzlize facebook post - facebook

Question

I have a post id (obtained from the Graph API), can I generate a URL which will display this post in Facebook's interface?
Seems there should be something like http://facebook.com/viewpost?postid=6666666666 ...

Answer 1

You want to manually construct a permalink given only the post ID?
The Graph API for a post ID returns the URLs the user should go to to comment on or like the post, assuming the viewing user has permission to do so.
Example:
GET http://graph.facebook.com/19292868552_10150189643478553?access_token={access token here}
Snipped some of the fields of the response, but you're looking for 'actions':
{
"id": "19292868552_10150189643478553",
"from": {
"name": "Facebook Platform",
"category": "Product/service",
"id": "19292868552"
},
// removed fields from response
"actions": [
{
"name": "Comment",
"link": "https://www.facebook.com/19292868552/posts/10150189643478553"
},
{
"name": "Like",
"link": "https://www.facebook.com/19292868552/posts/10150189643478553"
},
{
"name": "Share",
"link": "http://networkedblogs.com/hGWk3?a=share"
}
],
// Snipped rest of response
In general, the format of a permalink seems to be:
https://www.facebook.com/{source id}/posts/{post object id}
(Source ID being the user or page ID where the post is)
You can't definitely reply on that URL format always being the same; the API response should be always accurate though