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Using Facebook dialogs, app users can share stories. I wish to be able to construct a permalink to the published story and offer as link to view the post. What we receive in response is the post_id, which alone doesn't look sufficient.

Would it possible to construct a permalink based alone on the post_id, if not, what other approach are possible?

Thanks a ton for your time.

vmx
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You can constuct a link to the original posts with the post_id in the URL with this pattern:

http://www.facebook.com/7683938373/posts/7938393003

where the post_id is 7683938373_7938393003. (This is a made up post_id)

Just as a note: You can also access a permalink field from the stream table.

Johnny

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Isn't it in the response when you access the post via its ID in the API? There should be a permalink in there in the actions object which you can direct the user to for them to like/comment on the new post

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    Igy, thanks for the pointer. I was able to construct permalink to the post following [this answer](http://stackoverflow.com/a/5081859/1520518). – vmx Jul 12 '12 at 11:24