Hi, the long-wanted Facebook app is here. Now you can view all your friends' photos on boxee, with slideshow! (boxee is a social fork of the famous XBMC, wiki)

Facebook Photos won both People's Choice and Judge's Choice!

v1.5 is out! Most voted feature "View recently updated albums" is added!

It's being actively developed, and welcome to vote for new features here
More screenshots with step by step guide here

App Box install

1. Facebook Photos is now in official boxee app repository
2. Try App Box - New Applications - Facebook Photos
3. If not found, add http://boxeefb.googlecode.com/svn/repo/ to your App Box repository.(App Box-Repositories-Add Repository)
4. Add Facebook from New Applications
5. Navigate to Pictures-Internet-Facebook. Enjoy!

Apple TV users

A browser is needed for Facebook login. Or you can copy a working registry.xml from other computers to ATV. See "Configuration file" below for details.

Linux users

This app uses xdg-open to open Facebook URL

Configuration file

The file can be found at BOXEE/UserData/profiles/yourboxeename/apps/facebook/registry.xml. The content should look like:

<registry>
    <value id="expires">0</value>
    <value id="secret">989f61c2252837be36bd3f7fa5e5a211</value>
    <value id="session_key">a7d4515138a9076751c633db-632728111</value>
    <value id="uid">your facebook uid</value>
</registry>

If the value of "expires" is not 0, you have to re-login to Facebook in about 24 hours. Although it's well handled, it may be very annoying for some users. Steps to solve this:

1. in browser, logout Facebook
2. delete registry.xml
3. run boxee and this app, click "Login to Facebook"
4. in browser, check "Keep me logged in to boxee" before submit
5. Enjoy!

Manual install(obsolete)

1. Download boxeefb-1.0.zip file from http://code.google.com/p/boxeefb/downloads
2. Unzip, and copy the facebook folder to BOXEE/UserData/apps/
3. Add below to the pictures section of your sources.xml

<source>
    <name>Facebook</name>
    <path>app://facebook/</path>
    <thumbnail>http://boxeefb.googlecode.com/files/logo200.png</thumbnail>
    <private>false</private>
</source>

4. In your web browser, log out Facebook (recommended, to avoid re-login)
5. Run boxee, and navigate to Pictures-Internet-Facebook
6. Click "Login to Facebook", a Facebook login page will open in your browser
7. Fill the login form and check "Keep me logged in", submit
8. Go back to boxee, click OK and Enjoy!

Source code and modification

The source code is included in the app, no separate download needed. Feel free to modify the source code, but please keep the Facebook app key and original author Junda Liu. Thanks!

Bug report

http://code.google.com/p/boxeefb/issues/

Known issues

1. If friend name has nonASCII character, the user id will be displayed, because the API seems to accept ASCII only
2. Facebook scales down photo size so the quality is not very good
3. Windows Boxee (0.9.5.4495) doesn't support all APIs in the app, and App Install may fail

Table of Content:

• App Box install
• Apple TV users
• Linux users
• Configuration file
• Manual install(obsolete)
• Source code and modification
• Bug report
• Known issues