Pull RSS Feeds From Facebook Page

Question

I need help to pull RSS feeds from a facebook page I\'m using the following code but it keeps giving me an error :

string url = 
    \"https://www.facebook.com/f         


        

Answer 1

Facebook will return HTML in this instance because it doesn't like the User Agent supplied by XmlReader. Since you can't customize it, you will need a different solution to grab the feed. This should solve your problem:

var req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
req.Method = "GET";
req.UserAgent = "Fiddler";

var rep = req.GetResponse();
var reader = XmlReader.Create(rep.GetResponseStream());

SyndicationFeed feed = SyndicationFeed.Load(reader);

This is strictly a behavior of Facebook, but the proposed change should work equally well for other sites that are okay with your current implementation.