Display Facebook Page Videos On Website Using PHP
Previously, we learned how to display Facebook page photo albums on your website.
Today, our tutorial will explore integrating Facebook page videos onto a website using PHP. With this solution, website visitors can easily access the videos you’ve invested time in creating, editing, and managing on your Facebook page.
Say goodbye to manually uploading videos to both Facebook and your website. Implement our code and have your Facebook videos automatically displayed on your website for your audience to enjoy.
This is a great way to increase engagement on your website and encourage your audience to follow your Facebook page.
This code will get the list of videos from your Facebook page with data such as the video itself, video title, description, date posted, etc., from your Facebook fan page without using any Facebook PHP SDK, just the Facebook Graph API!
We will display these videos on a webpage made in PHP. We will use a user interface powered by Bootstrap. See our step-by-step Bootstrap tutorial here if you’re not yet familiar with this excellent front-end framework.
Before we continue coding, if you realize you do not want to code and need more features, you can use a website plugin called SociableKIT. It is the best no-code tool for the job.
You can easily customize the look and feel of your Facebook page video feed and embed it on your website in 3 minutes. The videos feed on your website will update automatically.
Follow this tutorial: Embed Facebook page videos on website. You can also embed Facebook page live streams and Facebook page playlist videos. There’s a free plan that you can use if you don’t need the premium features of SociableKIT.
We have to know where we are going. If we’re done with the code tutorial below, we will achieve this output:
Before you can get any data from your Facebook page via the graph API, you need a “page” access token.
Follow this detailed tutorial about how to get a page access token: How to get a Facebook page access token?
Replace YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN with your page access token.
Create index.php and set the timezone, Facebook page and the page title. Put the following code inside index.php
<?php
// set timezone for servers that requires it
date_default_timezone_set("America/Los_Angeles");
// set Facebook page ID or username
$fb_page_id = "katyperry";
// page title
$page_title = "BASIC - Display Facebook Page Videos on Website";
?>
Put a Bootstrap-enabled basic HTML after the code on section 4.0.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title><?php echo $page_title;></title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.1.1/css/bootstrap.min.css">
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
</div> <!-- /container -->
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.1.1/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<--[if lt IE 9]-->
<script src="https://oss.maxcdn.com/libs/html5shiv/3.7.0/html5shiv.js"></script>
<script src="https://oss.maxcdn.com/libs/respond.js/1.4.2/respond.min.js"></script>
<![endif]-->
</body>
</html>
Specify the values for the following variables:
Put the following code inside the ‘container’ tags on section 5.0
$profile_photo_src = "https://graph.facebook.com/{$fb_page_id}/picture?type=square";
$access_token = "YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN ";
$fields = "id,title,description,created_time,from,source";
$limit = 5;
Use the variable values on the previous section and construct the $json_link. Get the data from that URL, decode it, and count the number of records it returned.
In short, put the following code after the code in section 6.0
$json_link = "https://graph.facebook.com/v2.6/{$fb_page_id}/videos?access_token={$access_token}&fields={$fields}&limit={$limit}";
$json = file_get_contents($json_link);
$obj = json_decode($json, true);
$feed_item_count = count($obj['data']);
Loop through each records, extract each video information and place it in an HTML structure.
for($x=0; $x<$feed_item_count; $x++){
echo "<div class='row'>";
// video source
$source = $obj['data'][$x]['source'];
// display Facebook page video
echo "<lt;div class='col-md-6'>";
echo "<video controls class='embed-responsive-item'>;
echo "<source src={$source} type=video/mp4>";
echo "</video>";
echo "</div>";
echo "<div class='col-md-6'>";
// user's custom message
$title = isset($obj['data'][$x]['title'])
? htmlspecialchars_decode($obj['data'][$x]['title'])
: "Video #" . $obj['data'][$x]['id'];
$description = isset($obj['data'][$x]['description']) ? $obj['data'][$x]['description'] : "";
$description = htmlspecialchars_decode(str_replace("\n", "<br>", $description));
// when it was posted
$created_time = $obj['data'][$x]['created_time'];
$converted_date_time = date( 'Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime($created_time));
$ago_value = time_elapsed_string($converted_date_time);
// from
$page_id = $obj['data'][$x]['from']['id'];
$page_name = $obj['data'][$x]['from']['name'];
// display video title
echo "<h2 style='margin: 0 0 .5em 0;'>{$title}</h2>";
// display video description
echo "<div>";
echo $description;
echo "</div>";
// display when it was posted
echo "<div style='margin:.5em 0 0 0; color: #999;'>";
echo "Posted {$ago_value} by <a href='https://facebook.com/{$page_id}' target='_blank'>{$page_name}</a>";
echo "</div>";
echo "</div>";
echo "<div class='col-md-12'>";
echo "<hr style='margin:2em 0; border:thin solid #f1f1f1;' />";
echo "</div>";
echo "</div>";
}
time_elapsed_string() is a function that will return the “time ago” value, from section 8.0, we pass when the video was posted so that we can display something like: 9 days ago, 9 months ago, a year ago, etc…
Put the following code after the closing ‘html’ tag.
// to get 'time ago' text
function time_elapsed_string($datetime, $full = false) {
$now = new DateTime;
$ago = new DateTime($datetime);
$diff = $now->diff($ago);
$diff->w = floor($diff->d / 7);
$diff->d -= $diff->w * 7;
$string = array(
'y' => 'year',
'm' => 'month',
'w' => 'week',
'd' => 'day',
'h' => 'hour',
'i' => 'minute',
's' => 'second',
);
foreach ($string as $k => &$v) {
if ($diff->$k) {
$v = $diff->$k . ' ' . $v . ($diff->$k > 1 ? 's' : '');
} else {
unset($string[$k]);
}
}
if (!$full) $string = array_slice($string, 0, 1);
return $string ? implode(', ', $string) . ' ago' : 'just now';
}
You can choose whether to download our source code or use the SociableKIT Facebook page videos widget.
| FEATURES | Code | SociableKIT |
|---|---|---|
| Upload videos on your Facebook page and automatically display them on your website. | ✔ | ✔ |
| Save time figuring out and coding these features on your website. | ✔ | ✔ |
| Display the list of videos from your Facebook page. | ✔ | ✔ |
| Display video title. If none, display the video number. | ✔ | ✔ |
| Display video description. | ✔ | ✔ |
| Post date with “time ago” format. | ✔ | ✔ |
| Display the Facebook page name (with a link) for each video. (opens in new tab) | ✔ | ✔ |
| Responsive layout. (excellent for mobile devices) | ✔ | ✔ |
| No coding required | – | ✔ |
| Works with any website builders like WordPress, Squarespace, or Wix | – | ✔ |
| Customize colors, font, and more | – | ✔ |
| Event details with a map can be shown in a popup | – | ✔ |
| Priority chat and email support | – | ✔ |
| Lifetime support and system updates | – | ✔ |
| No need to worry about Facebook API updates | – | ✔ |
| Use the buttons below. ↓ | Code | SociableKIT |
Today we have learned how to show your Facebook page videos on your website. Did you know that you can also display a Facebook page posts feed on your website?
Let us go to the next tutorial: How To Display Facebook Page POSTS on Website?
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