F8 2016: Facebook Live API Open to Developers, Publishers

Facebook is giving developers and publishers a chance to see what they can do with its Facebook Live video-streaming feature.

Facebook is giving developers and publishers a chance to see what they can do with its Facebook Live video-streaming feature.

Product manager Daniel Danker provided details about the Facebook Live API (application-programming interface)—which was introduced by the social network at its F8 global developers’ conference in San Francisco Tuesday—in a Facebook Media blog post.

Danker wrote that the Facebook Live API will enable developers and publishers to:

  • Seamlessly incorporate Facebook Live into their existing broadcast setups.
  • Create new ways to interact with viewers.
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