Facebook Creates New API For Events Integration
In an effort to allow applications to more tightly integrate with the Facebook Events system, Facebook today launched new APIs that allow applications to create and manage Facebook Events from within the application.
Many applications like Party Buzz already add value to the Facebook Events system by aggregating what events your friends will be attending. The new APIs will enable apps to manage those events directly. Facebook writes,
For applications that already have events associated with them, like concert or class applications, now you can easily create and manage events that appear on Facebook, and your users can easily RSVP to these events from within the application. Stories about these events appear in the News Feeds of the friends of the attendee, and the person attending can invite more friends after RSVPing. In this case, you won’t need an active session to create events, since they’re associated with the application, and not the user. However, you’ll still need an extended permission and active session so a user can RSVP to these events.
Details on the API are available in the Developers Wiki.
August 13th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
I’m convinced that Facebook is developing a calendar. I really wish I would have taken a screen shot, but when the new layout first rolled out, there was a Facebook Calendar icon on one of the application option pages.
When they do roll it out, giving applications the ability to add events to it will make it all the more useful. I really like where Facebook is going with this.
September 18th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
testing this for FB app
October 7th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
[...] fall, Facebook created a basic Events API that allowed users to create and manage events from within the application, as well as to RSVP to [...]
January 4th, 2011 at 8:06 am
there are a example code to add “participate to event” button in site page allow user to participate to facebook event ?