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I think the title says it all - it is possible to pull the wall from a Facebook Page into an RSS reader add-on?  Is there actually an RSS feed of a page’s wall?  All the articles on the subject I find via Google seem quite old.  My aim was to avoid using the Facebook Like plugin since I’d like to have a bit more control over the look of the incoming posts.

Hey, dunno if you’re still hunting for info here, but I just found the answer to this (I had to find it for a project of my own.) The answer is yes, mostly, but it’s a little complicated to get set up and you’ll want to run it through Feedburner to normalize it and make sure Facebook’s stupid login cookies don’t cause trouble.

So, here’s the steps:

1. Get your Page ID. To do that, click “Edit Page”; it will send you to a page whose URL is something like the following:

<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/edit/?id=&#91LONGNUMERICID&#93">https://www.facebook.com/pages/edit/?id=[LONGNUMERICID&#93</a>;

. Grab that ID number (LONGNUMERICID).

2. Log OUT of Facebook (not sure if this matters, but it can’t hurt), and go log into Feedburner (http://feedburner.com) with the Google Account you want to use to keep the feed.

3. Put the following URL into Feedburner’s “burn a feed” input:

<a href="http://www.facebook.com/feeds/page.php?id=&#91LONGNUMERICID&#93&format=rss20">http://www.facebook.com/feeds/page.php?id=[LONGNUMERICID]&format=rss20</a>

Note that you MUST use the http:// protocol; even though a feed exists at https://, Feedburner chokes on it!

4. Pick names and settings and stuff, and then you’ve got a normalized feed to use on your site!