[Qt-interest] Using Facebook API in a Qt application without webkit

Girish Ramakrishnan girish at forwardbias.in
Thu Feb 25 07:02:34 CET 2010


Andreas Unger wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'd like to use the facebook api in my Qt application. Specifically, I'd
> like to be able to access the names and profile photos of the user's
> friends. I do not want to use webkit because of various reasons
> including the fact that I'm programming for a platform with very limited
> memory and storage.
> 
> Is it possible to use QtNetwork only for this task?

Yup. http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/API. You can send and
receive requests using QNAM and parse the results using Qt's xml module.

Girish



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