Access to Facebook?

As a little learning project, I'd like to make a little app that reads data from a facebook users status updates. It's been done millions of times before, I'm sure, but is there an API or something? Would I need to signup for some Facebook developers license or anything, or is it as easy as finding the API, and then si开发者_运维问答mply coding to it?

I'd like to simply get friends Status Updates via my login... seems easy enough. :)

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The Facebook Developer links posted above are good, but it might be useful to look at some examples.

The Facebook C# SDK, found here: http://facebooksdk.codeplex.com/, has samples in ASP.NET MVC. It's a pretty simple project, so it should be relatively easy to see how things work in practice.

You can create an app at http://developers.facebook.com/

Then, download the sample project, replace the AppId and AppSecret with values from your registered app, and see how it works.

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You can start reading here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/

And look in the forum discussions here: http://forum.developers.facebook.net/index.php

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This post was helpful to me http://gathadams.com/2007/06/18/how-to-write-a-facebook-application-in-10-minutes/

Also keep in mind this last change made for FB team about Post for canvas http://developers.facebook.com/docs/canvas/post/

Good luck!