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title: Facebook Expands the Events API
description: "Facebook reported yesterday that they are new Events API calls that will: \"...allow applications to create, modify, and cancel events, as well as submit a user's RSVP to any event that the application created."
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# Facebook Expands the Events API
Written by [Cappy Popp](https://blog.thoughtlabs.com/blog/author/cappy-popp)
on Aug 13, 2008
[Facebook reported yesterday](http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=149)that they are new Events API calls that will:
*"...allow applications to [create](http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Events.create), [modify](http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Events.edit), and [cancel](http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Events.cancel) events, as well as submit a user's [RSVP](http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Events.rsvp) to any event that the application created.*
*With an active session and the appropriate [extended permissions](http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Extended_permissions), your application can manage your users' schedules for any events created through your application. These events appear on their profiles alongside all their other events, so they can easily keep track of what's coming up as well as invite more friends. Applications that could take advantage of this include those that manage personal events and those that host events."*
They've also updated the events APIs to be sessionless as well.
Topics: [Programming](https://blog.thoughtlabs.com/blog/tag/programming)
**About the author:**
#### [Cappy Popp](https://blog.thoughtlabs.com/blog/author/cappy-popp)
Cappy Popp has decades of software development experience and has successfully designed and implemented digital strategies for dozens of companies in multiple markets. Cappy specializes in digital strategy, analytics, and monitoring and is the co-author of the acclaimed book, Essential Facebook Development.
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