restfb
RestFB is a simple and flexible Facebook Graph API client written in Java.
It is open source software released under the terms of the MIT License.

Features

restfb has been designed with several objectives in mind. The most important of these are defined as follows.

Zero runtime dependencies

You don't need to include additional libraries in your project. There are no dependency conflicts. In addition, RestFB is highly portable and can be used in both Android projects and normal Java applications.

Maximal extensibility

Although we provide a standard implementation for our core components, each component can be replaced with a custom implementation. This allows RestFB to be easily integrated into any kind of project. Even Android projects are supported.

Minimal public API

TThe RestFB API is really minimal and you only need to use one method to get information from Facebook and one to publish new items to Facebook. We provide default implementations for all the core components, so you can drop the jar into your project and be ready to go.

Simple metadata-driven configuration

Our Facebook types are simple POJOs with special annotations. This configuration is designed for ease of use and can be used to define custom types very easily.

Download

RestFB can be downloaded from Github or used as a Maven dependency. There is also a sample project on Github.

Download from Github

Newest Version of the library is available from RestFB's home on Github.
View the changelog here.

Download from Maven

RestFB is a single JAR - just drop it into your application and you're ready to go. Download it from Maven Central:
maven central restfb version wonder years g001

Restfb example

You can find a sample project on Github. This project can help you get up and running quickly.

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Wonder Years G001 Guide

There’s a strange kind of time travel that happens when you stumble across an old file named G001 . It’s not a VHS tape or a dusty photo album. It’s a digital ghost—the first recording, the first frame, the first moment someone thought, “I should remember this.”

In the language of old camcorders and early hard drives, G001 stands for . The first clip. The alpha moment. Before the story found its shape, there was just raw, unpolished light.

The wonder years—the actual TV show—understood this. Kevin Arnold narrates his past from a future full of quiet disappointments, but the images stay young: treehouses, first heartbreaks, the back of a girl’s head in science class. We don’t realize we’re in our wonder years while we’re in them. We’re too busy wanting to be older.

The Ghost in the Frame: Revisiting My Wonder Years (G001)

For me, G001 is the summer I was nine. My father bought a brick of a camcorder—the kind that rested on your shoulder like a small rocket launcher. He pointed it at me riding my bike without training wheels for the first time. I crash into a bush. He keeps filming. That clip, in my mind, is always labeled G001 .

Sponsors

The development of restfb is sponsored by these great companies and individuals. If you also like to sponsor us, please check the sponsor button on our RestFB Github page or send us a short note .

Licensing

restfb is open source software released under the terms of the MIT License:

Copyright (c) 2010-2025 Mark Allen, Norbert Bartels.

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