What is it?

The Facebook Actionscript API provides an interface between the Facebook REST based API and Flash/Flex based applications.

A Google Group has been created for discussion of this API as well as for release announcements. Grab the feed for your reader or join the group to get in on the discussion.

The open-source Actionscript 3 library was developed with Adobe Flex 2 in mind but will work in Adobe Flash 9 or Flex 3 as well. The API will allow developers to create desktop applications, website applications, or applications integrated into the Facebook website.

The API is being developed by Jason Crist, an employee of Cynergy Systems. It was originally authored under the direction of Terralever, an online marketing firm with strength in Flash-based media.

This is API is a SECURE ActionScript API. The Facebook JavaScrpt API is used as a bridge when run embedded in the Facebook site. See an example of how to get that working in the source.

What do I get?

Download the beta release of the API and check out the example applications.

If you just want the library without all that messy code you can just grab the .swc.

There is also ASDoc generated that can be downloaded or viewed online.

If you would like to see a (simple and ugly) example of the API being used you can download a simple example (in the src or available seperately) and view the working example in Facebook.

The source and documentation is available by svn as well.

How's the progress?

Almost done! All of the non-beta functions are implemented and we're just working out the kinks. The beta methods will be implemented before we go 1.0.

Additional Resources

Please also be aware of another AS3 Facebook API headed up by Keith Salisbury. It is a finely crafted API, however the way I want to use an API is different that how that one is crafted (very akin to the AS3 Flikr API). Hopefully you, the Facebook ActionScript developer, will be better off with a choice.