I want to access my facebook friends public posts for some sentiment analysis stuff. Can anyone help in knowing how it can be done using GraphAPI ?
You can´t access data of friends anymore. All friend permissions are gone:
All friends_* permissions have been removed.
Source: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/changelog
Additionally to the removal of the friends_* permissions, you can no longer get the whole friend list anymore, but only those who are also using your app.
So, what you want to achieve is unfortunately pretty much impossible.
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I am using the FB graph api to get a list of my friends' friends using:
https://graph.facebook.com/<id>/friends?access_token=<token>
Now the weird thing is that this works for some of my friends and does not work for some others. Could somebody tell me why this is happening and a possible fix?
In cases where it does not work, I get the following message: "Can't lookup all friends of YYYYYY. Can only lookup for the logged in user (XXXXX), or friends of the logged in user with the appropriate permission"
And I repeat, I AM ABLE to get friend lists of some of my friends using the above URL. What permissions are being mentioned here?
In new SDK of the Graph API is not possible to do that.
Take a look here.
I want to grab facebook user's interested in . I was testing with my own account, I tried many perms, but I get nothing, and in fact, I set my interested in as women, and public.
does anyone know how to do it? thanks.
Ensure you grant user_relationship_details permission：
You can always play around with debugger at https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/456672354407764/?method=GET&path=me%3Ffields%3Dinterested_in to find out the approriate permission scope.
first time on stackoverflow. Was wondering about this problem I am having as mentioned in the title, my application cannot retrieve any data via the API for any profiles that are non-related in anyway (no mutual friends either). Is this a known thing due to privacy settings or permissions?
Thanks!
This is the rules you have to know, for example 100007110730790 is a non-friend id:
Rule 1. If the user turn platform Off:
Facebook API wouldn't work at all:
Rule 2. If the platform is ON and user 100007110730790 does not provide user_status permission for your app, you can get the feed with have tagged with you:
Updates:
if you are using your apps(not graph API explorer default app, this app wouldn't include activity feed!), you can also get public activity feed(add life event, change language, so on, even though he/she doesn't use the app at all!):
Update 10 jan 2014:
shared_story is included on this rule.
Rule 3. If the platform is ON and user 100007110730790 does provide user_status permission for your app, you can get the status feed even though non-friend!:
And using FQL:
So, for albums/photos is the same, the non friend need to grant user_photos permission to the same APP.
Yes, I guess. In any ways you shouldn't be able to retrieve something that is not normally visible to you. Looking aroudn Stackoverflow there are multiple threads with similar queries, so it seems like a known limitation.
I just want to know if it's possible to do the following:
To display some wall posts from my own facebook account in a php web page, without going through the granting-permission in the user interface level? Because from what I know, you need an access token to use the API, and to get an access token, you need to go through the granting-permission UI. So I am feeling impossible here.
I got my app ID and secret code ready, I just want to know for sure if what I want to implement is even possible to begin with.
Actually, you could change your privacy permissions so that your wall is completely public. The API is then able to access public information without being granted user authorization.
I was also searching the same, as I want to implement it in my project. Now I've got the answer of this. Yes, you can get posts as well as comments from your wall. If you want more details about same, comment below mentioning my name. :)
I'm able to fetch my friends list using Facebook API (which requires me to log into my FB account) and I'm trying to show my friends list to other people visit my site.
I've tried using Twitter and its quite simple. https://api.twitter.com/1/friends/ids.json?cursor=-1&screen_name=codef0rmer returns my followers ids.
Is that possible using Facebook API, If yes, How to do that?
To access the /friends connection you need a valid access token for the current session. This means you can't access this connection for other users
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/user/
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/friend/
This means that unless you get a users friends and store them in your database, you won't be able to do this. ( Unless you use longer living access tokens (I say longer living as offline access is being deprecated)
Saying this, I'm not sure if you are allowed to store this information. I know friendslists aren't allowed to be shown to other users so this is potentially dangerous territory on facebook TOS. The privacy policy is here https://developers.facebook.com/policy/ but I think this is something you may need to clarify with Facebook directly as it looks like a slightly grey area