# Facebook Query Language

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Facebook Query Language First appeared February 2007; 19 years ago (2007-02) Platform Facebook Platform Website developers.facebook.com Influenced by SQL

**Facebook Query Language** (**FQL**) is a [query language](/source/Query_language) that allows querying [Facebook](/source/Facebook) user data by using a [SQL](/source/SQL)-style interface,[1] avoiding the need to use the [Facebook Platform](/source/Facebook_Platform) Graph [API](/source/Application_programming_interface).[2] Data returned from an FQL query is in [JSON](/source/JSON) format by default.

## History

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FQL was first made publicly available in February 2007.[3] FQL was no longer available as of August 7, 2016, when Facebook API 2.0 was no longer available.[4] Facebook API versions newer than API 2.0 do not support FQL.

## Example

In the following query, four different types of data are retrieved from a single table (status) and for a single user ("me"):

SELECT status_id,message,time,source FROM `status` WHERE uid = me()

This query can run by querying the Facebook graph endpoint */fql* with the parameters set to *q=[FQL]*

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Facebook Query Language (FQL)"](https://web.archive.org/web/20110717031107/http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/). *Facebook for Developers*. Archived from [the original](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/) on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2018-05-12.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["About Facebook-FQL"](https://stackoverflow.com/tags/facebook-fql/info). *Tag info*. [Stack Overflow](/source/Stack_Overflow). Retrieved 2012-05-18.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Steinberg, Ari (February 26, 2007). ["FQL"](https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook/fql/2245872130/). *[Facebook](/source/Facebook)*. Retrieved 2018-05-12.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["Changelog - Graph API"](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/changelog/). *Facebook for Developers*. Retrieved 2018-05-12.

## External links

- [Official Homepage](https://developers.facebook.com/)

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