I'm trying to get the home feed for a user, but all the posts by my friends are no longer there (only feeds by Pages show). This happened near the v2.2 release. Are we no longer able to get a user's news feed with their friends posts? https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/145634995501895/?method=GET&path=me%2Fhome&version=v2.0
friend permissions are gone with v2.0 - so i assume this happened in April 2014 when v2.0 was introduced, for privacy reasons you can´t get anything from friends who did not authorize your app too. Wouldn´t it be weird if you could just see the posts of friends in the stream of the authorized user, without the friends being able to control this?
Check out the changelog for more information: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/changelog
It looks like friends' news are back on the /me/home end point
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Facebook API does not provide friends list of people using our fb app, according to their developer faq page. But still, websites like nimble and the live example of socialauth are able to get the names of people on our friend list, even those who do not use their app. Please, can any one help me with how this work?
The read_friendlist permission gives only name of lists like 'close friends', 'aquaintance' etc. the user_friends permission gives only the list of people in our friendlist who use our app.
What all api permssions do we need to get the full friend list?
I am trying to make an address book by importing contacts from google, facebook etc. using socialauth. Had success with google.
Those websites are probably using older Apps with v1.0 - it will stop working for them after end of April 2015. You can only use v1.0 with an App created before end of April 2014.
All 'friends_*' permissions have been removed from new version 2.1
You can use 'user_friends'
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/upgrading
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/changelog
For fetching app users user 'me/friends'
For more friends use 'me/taggable_friends' .
Remember it will still not return whole friends.
In new facebook api version there is no way to fetch whole friend list at one time
If I have understood it correctly Facebook made some changes so it returns app_scoped_id instead of the normal user_id.
The problem I have now is that no other function seems to work.
I receive an I id from Facebook, and it's the same each time I login, but if I use facebook.request("me/friends") the table is empty, if I use facebook.showDialog("friends") it
What do I need to do in Corona SDK to get this to work? Before I could use these functions after having setup them up in Facebook.
I read this thread explaining why this happen but it doesn't explain how to solve it in Corona SDK: Get Users App-Scoped user id in Facebook Graph API
As of Facebook API v2.0, friends list (/me/friend) returns ONLY user's friends who are already using your application. This limitation applies to all apps that are on v1.0 mode too.
If you're looking to get friends for tagging actions: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.0/user/taggable_friends
If you're looking to get friends for inviting to a Facebook Game on Canvas: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.0/user/invitable_friends
Cheers!
I'm using GraphAPI for posting to a friend's wall but I'm unable to do it.
I'm trying the below link:
http://graph.facebook.com/friendID/feed
Can anyone help me how to post to your friend's wall?
As of february, you can't post content to a friend's wall using the API - see here: https://developers.facebook.com/roadmap/completed-changes/#february-2013
Removing ability to post to friends walls via Graph API We will remove
the ability to post to a user's friends' walls via the Graph API.
Specifically, posts against [user_id]/feed where [user_id] is
different from the session user, or stream.publish calls where the
target_id user is different from the session user, will fail.
You can post links using the FB.ui function w/ the 'to' parameter set to a friend's id, however.
See the following change from 6th March 2013, posted on the list of completed changes in the Facebook Developers' Roadmap:
Removing ability to post to friends walls via Graph API
We will remove the ability to post to a user's friends' walls via the Graph API. Specifically, posts against [user_id]/feed where [user_id] is different from the session user, or stream.publish calls where the target_id user is different from the session user, will fail.
If you want to allow people to post to their friends' timelines, invoke the feed dialog. Stories that include friends via user mentions tagging or action tagging will show up on the friend’s timeline (assuming the friend approves the tag). For more info, see this blog post.
when I tried to post to my friends timeline using facebook graph api, I got
{"error":{"message":"(#200) Feed story publishing to other users is disabled for this application","type":"OAuthException","code":200}}
Enabling something while creating access_token will resolve this problem ?
If so what should I enable.
Thanks,
Padmaprasad G
This feature has been removed the 6th February : http://developers.facebook.com/roadmap/completed-changes/
Look here how to do it Facebook App: Will fb.api method post on friend's wall?
Yes, this was announced few months back and took effect on Feb 6th - http://developers.facebook.com/roadmap/completed-changes
Removing ability to post to friends walls via Graph API
We will remove the ability to post to a user's friends' walls via the Graph API. Specifically, posts against [user_id]/feed where [user_id] is different from the session user, or stream.publish calls where the target_id user is different from the session user, will fail. If you want to allow people to post to their friends' timelines, invoke the feed dialog. Stories that include friends via user mentions tagging or action tagging will show up on the friend’s timeline (assuming the friend approves the tag). For more info, see this blog post.
The workaround is to use the Feed Dialog which allows users to post the same content, but choose the user they want to post it to.
I was playing with the Graph API recently and I made the following simple call:
https://graph.facebook.com/me/friends
For me, this returns 461 entries. On my profile page on the Facebook website, I have 465 friends. On the following page, I have 477 friends:
https://www.facebook.com/me/friends
I've discovered that 12 of my friends has deactivated their profiles, which would account for the difference between the 477 and the 465. However, that still does not explain the difference between the Graph API call and the number that appears on my profile.
This leads me to my questions:
Is there a way to retrieve a list of inactive friends via Facebook API?
What other reasons are there aside from user inactivity that a friend connection would not appear on the Graph API? Is there a user's privacy setting for such control?
Thanks!
This is absolutely normal behavior. There is an option in Facebook that let's you disable all apps. Reference: Facebook: Disable all apps If they have that turned on, your app to not be able to reach them.
As of finding inactive friends, the answer is NO, you can't not. They are not a part of the Facebook public platform and therefore you don't have access to them.