# Facebook Development Platform

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/facebook-development-platform/197347>\
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**Created:** [August 15, 2006, 7:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/facebook-development-platform/197347 "2006-08-15T19:43:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![redrum87](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@redrum87](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/redrum87)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 7:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/facebook-development-platform/197347/1 "2006-08-15T19:43:14Z")

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Today, [facebook.com](http://facebook.com) released the [Facebook Development Platform](http://developers.facebook.com/index.php), an API that allows web based and desktop applications to get data from facebook to use in their applications.

[Some applications have already been developed.](http://developers.facebook.com/products.php)