Facebook Graph API - Friends Using Application

Get ALL User Friends Using Facebook Graph API - Android

In v2.0 of the Graph API, calling /me/friends returns the person's friends who also use the app.

In addition, in v2.0, you must request the user_friends permission from each user. user_friends is no longer included by default in every login. Each user must grant the user_friends permission in order to appear in the response to /me/friends. See the Facebook upgrade guide for more detailed information, or review the summary below.

The /me/friendlists endpoint and user_friendlists permission are not what you're after. This endpoint does not return the users friends - its lets you access the lists a person has made to organize their friends. It does not return the friends in each of these lists. This API and permission is useful to allow you to render a custom privacy selector when giving people the opportunity to publish back to Facebook.

If you want to access a list of non-app-using friends, there are two options:

1. If you want to let your people tag their friends in stories that they publish to Facebook using your App, you can use the /me/taggable_friends API. Use of this endpoint requires review by Facebook and should only be used for the case where you're rendering a list of friends in order to let the user tag them in a post.

2. If your App is a Game AND your Game supports Facebook Canvas, you can use the /me/invitable_friends endpoint in order to render a custom invite dialog, then pass the tokens returned by this API to the standard Requests Dialog.

In other cases, apps are no longer able to retrieve the full list of a user's friends (only those friends who have specifically authorized your app using the user_friends permission).

For apps wanting allow people to invite friends to use an app, you can still use the Send Dialog on Web or the new Message Dialog on iOS and Android.

How to get whole Facebook friends list from api

The friendlists endpoint is deprecated, as you can see in the breaking changes log: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/changelog/breaking-changes#tagged-users-4-4

It would not have been what you expected anyway, it was only for lists, not friends directly. Access to all friends is not possible since a very long time. You can only get data of users/friends who authorized your App. You can use the /me/friends endpoint for that.

Another thread about getting all friends: Facebook Graph API v2.0+ - /me/friends returns empty, or only friends who also use my application

Facebook Graph API v2.0+ - /me/friends returns empty, or only friends who also use my application

In v2.0 of the Graph API, calling /me/friends returns the person's friends who also use the app.

In addition, in v2.0, you must request the user_friends permission from each user. user_friends is no longer included by default in every login. Each user must grant the user_friends permission in order to appear in the response to /me/friends. See the Facebook upgrade guide for more detailed information, or review the summary below.

If you want to access a list of non-app-using friends, there are two options:

1. If you want to let your people tag their friends in stories that they publish to Facebook using your App, you can use the /me/taggable_friends API. Use of this endpoint requires review by Facebook and should only be used for the case where you're rendering a list of friends in order to let the user tag them in a post.

2. If your App is a Game AND your Game supports Facebook Canvas, you can use the /me/invitable_friends endpoint in order to render a custom invite dialog, then pass the tokens returned by this API to the standard Requests Dialog.

In other cases, apps are no longer able to retrieve the full list of a user's friends (only those friends who have specifically authorized your app using the user_friends permission). This has been confirmed by Facebook as 'by design'.

For apps wanting allow people to invite friends to use an app, you can still use the Send Dialog on Web or the new Message Dialog on iOS and Android.

UPDATE: Facebook have published an FAQ on these changes here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/faq which explain all the options available to developers in order to invite friends etc.

searching friends using facebook graph api

You can get the list of friends using the following API call:

Friends: https://graph.facebook.com/me/friends?access_token=...

and then search in the list for the person you are looking for.

Refer to more detailed documentation here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/api

Get facebook friends posts using graph API

friend permissions are gone, and read_stream will not get approved by Facebook unless you are building an App for a platform without a native Facebook client. So there is no way to get access to friend walls - unless they authorize your App too. You can use user_posts for that.

You can read more about all the changes in the changelog: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/changelog

Facebook improved privacy for users, that´s why you can´t get any details of users who did not authorize your App.

Facebook Graph API - Friends using application

You should be able to do this with FQL:

select uid, name, is_app_user from user where uid in (select uid2 from friend where uid1=me()) and is_app_user=1

How to invite friends to facebook app via the Graph API

So it turns out, thank to CBroe's comment that it is not possible to invite via the Graph API (I wish it were clearer in the documentation).

It is not necessary, however, to use the friend select dialog. It is possible to generate your own list of friends using either the graph api, server-side or client-side and produce a confirmation box by using the JS SDK like so:

$('form').on('submit', function(e) {
  e.preventDefault();
  var userIds = $(this).find('input:checkbox:checked').map(function() {
    return parseInt($(this).val(),10);
  }).get();
  FB.ui({method: 'apprequests',
    message: 'Check this app out!',
    to: userIds
  });
});

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