Last I checked, you can export facebook data.  But the formatting is complex and not meant to be imported into something else.  It will take some work with regular expressions.

Last I checked, you can export facebook data. But the formatting is complex and not meant to be imported into something else. It will take some work with regular expressions.

This is called scraping. It's a fragile and unreliable method of getting data from a site.

You can export the data in JSON or XML format using the graph apis.

https://graph.facebook.com/YOUR_ID/feed&access_token=FACEBOOK_ACCESS_TOKEN
https://graph.facebook.com/PAGE_ID/feed?access_token=FACEBOOK_ACCESS_TOKEN

Then you can import these to elgg through the elgg apis

here's a link for you

http://community.elgg.org/plugins/1132696/T%7CX/sw-wire-links-pro

the sw wire links works but not exaclty facebook style.  it shows a thumbnail of the entire page and no info with it, just a link.  also if depending on video plugins (exmbed extender, etc....) it will show the video and and another thumbnail as it tries to create a thumbnail out of the video.  but it sounds as if he wants to create a thumbnail for his site to draw people away from facebook, not create thumbnails inside of elgg.  do a google search about creating thumbnails, you will get a couple million hits, lots of different ways to do it.

Yes costakisc, your interpretation is correct.

I sort of made a mistake above.  When I said "...and possibly comment via another elgg plugin called facebook connect" I meant a plugin called "facebook comment application": http://community.elgg.org/plugins/839524/1.1/facebook-comments-box-social-plugin-for-elgg-18

"Facebook connect" is just for having users log-in to your site with their facebook credentials (it says "sync" in its description, but that is what it refers to, nothing more).

"Facebook comment box/application" makes it easier for people to post, since they don't need to log into your site to post; they can post by just being logged into facebook.  Either is a spam risk, but I'll see how it goes.