Facebook Cookbook

Retrieving an Event

Problem

I need to retrieve a Facebook event using FQL.

Solution

If you have the eid (event ID) of the event, this is easy:

SELECT eid, name, pic_small, description, start_time,
 end_time, location FROM event WHERE eid = $eid;

You can, of course, SELECT a different set of fields.

Discussion

The only place you can get an eid using FQL is from the event_member table (see Event Member Table). This query will only return events that the current loggedinuser has permission to see.