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The official documentation for the Facebook APIs can be found here.

Facebook api – Why is it called the Graph API?

Many developers are familiar with the Graph API, the main way data is retrieved from or posted to Facebook.

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/overview

I was just looking into it and I really can’t figure it out. Why is it called the Graph API? Why not the Friends API? Or the FB API?

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    At Facebook, we talk about the “Social Graph” at lot, which is the representation of people, business, groups and all their relationships. Hence, Graph API.

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    Yes, it’s about the social graph – but even the social graph got its name somehow. In mathematics, a graph is a “function”, and can be replaced by a function (and rule). Obviously, a graph can be visual, but it’s fundamentally data. In set theory, a set or class can be populated by a graph. Using the Graph API, you make API calls to return sets of JSON data.

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