Unable to get user hometown and location from Facebook graph API - facebook

Question

I am trying to get user hometown and location using Facebook graph API for the logged-in user
Public permissions to fetch location and hometown is granted by the user.
Graph API version v2.8
/me?fields=name,picture,location,hometown

Answer 1

You need to ask for permissions: user_hometown and user_location. The hometown/location is not included in the public permissions.
You can also check the scope of your access token here

Answer 2

Here is how you can get the complete user profile using FB token:
I am assuming you have given permission before getting token from graph api explore which is:
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/
public Profile GetProfile(string facebookID)
{
var url = "?fields=first_name,last_name,name,age_range,birthday, education, gender, hometown, locale, location, third_party_id, timezone, email";
dynamic result = _facebookClient.Get(facebookID + url);
var profile = new Profile();
if (result != null)
{
string resultStringify = result.ToString();
var resultBlock = JObject.Parse(resultStringify);
//if (result.ToString().Contains("first_name")) {
// profile.First_Name = resultBlock["first_name"].ToString();
//}
profile.First_Name = resultStringify.ExtractIfValueIsAvailable("first_name", resultBlock);
//if (result.ToString().Contains("last_name")) {
// profile.Last_Name = resultBlock["last_name"].ToString();
//}
profile.Last_Name = resultStringify.ExtractIfValueIsAvailable("last_name", resultBlock);
//if (result.ToString().Contains("name")) {
// profile.Name = resultBlock["name"].ToString();
//}
profile.Name = resultStringify.ExtractIfValueIsAvailable("name", resultBlock);
if (result.ToString().Contains("age_range"))
{
if (result.age_range.min != null) profile.Age_Range_Min = result.age_range.min;
if (result.age_range.max != null) profile.Age_Range_Max = result.age_range.max;
}
//if (result.ToString().Contains("birthday")) {
// profile.Birthday = DateTime.ParseExact(result.birthday, "MM/dd/yyyy", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
//}
profile.Birthday = resultStringify.ExtractIfDateTime("birthday", resultBlock);
//if (result.ToString().Contains("gender")) {
// profile.Gender = resultBlock["gender"].ToString();
//}
profile.Gender = resultStringify.ExtractIfValueIsAvailable("gender", resultBlock);
//if (result.ToString().Contains("hometown")) {
// profile.Hometown = resultBlock["hometown"]["name"].ToString();
//}
profile.Hometown = resultStringify.ExtractIfNameValueIsAvailable("hometown", resultBlock);
//if (result.ToString().Contains("locale")) {
// profile.Locale = resultBlock["locale"].ToString();
//}
profile.Locale = resultStringify.ExtractIfValueIsAvailable("locale", resultBlock);
//if (result.ToString().Contains("location")) {
// profile.Location = resultBlock["location"]["name"].ToString();
//}
profile.Location = resultStringify.ExtractIfNameValueIsAvailable("location", resultBlock);
//if (result.ToString().Contains("third_party_id")) {
// profile.Third_Party_ID = resultBlock["third_party_id"].ToString();
//}
profile.Third_Party_ID = resultStringify.ExtractIfValueIsAvailable("third_party_id", resultBlock);
profile.Timezone = resultStringify.ExtractIfValueIsAvailable("timezone", resultBlock);
profile.EMail = resultStringify.ExtractIfValueIsAvailable("email", resultBlock);
}
return profile;
}
public static string ExtractIfValueIsAvailable(this string result, string fieldName, dynamic resultBlock) => result.Contains(fieldName) ? resultBlock[fieldName].ToString() : string.Empty;
Hope it helps.