I have seen many apps like Tinder and many other apps gets friends lists from facebook. When i login to these app they import all my friends list and sotre to their database. According to facebook doc it says only taggable friends are available through api which should be used to tag on user posts. But Tinder and other apps do not tag friends in the post. So I m curious to know how they get facebook friends.
/me/friends gets all friends who authorized the App with user_friends too, so they most likely used Tinder already.
The answer in this thread explains everything you need to know: Facebook Graph Api v2.0+ - /me/friends returns empty, or only friends who also use my app
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I am trying to make an app that shows the user their top 10 friends on facebook.
I've researched a lot of solutions on stackoverflow but they were all posted a few years ago and now do not work with the new restrictions imposed by the v2+ Api.
How would you propose ordering the users friends list to show the most likely top friends. (Friends of the user do not have the app installed)
You can only access friends who authorized your App too. More information: Facebook Graph Api v2.0+ - /me/friends returns empty, or only friends who also use my app
I am working with facebook graph and I believe that Facebook graph doesn't give access to users friends list but only total friends count is given on graph request in any of the present graph versions (2.0-2.7).
But this app has got over that restriction and it gets users friends list on oauth version 2.3 How did they got that ?
Facebook App with friends list resource available(meaww.com)
Did facebook made any exception for them or did I missed something ?
I would not authorize those spam apps, just to be safe. Anyway, i assume they are using taggable_friends or invitable_friends - i am pretty sure they shouldn´t though. There is more information in this thread: Facebook Graph Api v2.0+ - /me/friends returns empty, or only friends who also use my app
I'm developing an app which is super important to get the user's friends.
I just need to get a list of friends (Avatar and name) I do not require any more information or want to do anything with that data, you simply get a list of friends.
With the new change in Facebook it is impossible?
Regards!
See point 3.) of
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/upgrading#upgrading_v2_0_user_ids
/me/friends returns the user's friends who are also using your app
In v2.0, the friends API endpoint returns the list of a person's friends who are also using your app. In v1.0, the response included all of a person's friends.
There are two key use cases where apps need access to non-app friends: tagging and inviting. In v2.0, we've added the Taggable Friends API and the Invitable Friends API to support these flows.
I am in the prototype and research stage of an app that would create a quiz about a FaceBook user's friends. The gist is that each question would ask the user to match the profile picture of her Facebook friend with the name of the Facebook user that picture belongs to.
As I read the v2.3 Facebook API documentation, specifically the section about the user_friends permission, it appears that any app I make will only be able to get the user's friends' info if the friend has also installed and authorized my app.
If this is indeed the case, I won't even attempt the app as it's unlikely to be any fun if the content is limited to the set of friends who have installed the app.
Is there any other way to get the user's friends info while staying within the bounds of the Facebook Developers Terms of Service AND without requiring that the user's friend has installed and authorized my app?
Yes, that is indeed the case, you can only get access to friends who authorized your App with user_friends too. There is no other way since you don´t want to "invite friends to a canvas game" or "tag friends".
Check out the answer in this thread for more information: Facebook Graph Api v2.0+ - /me/friends returns empty, or only friends who also use my app
is there any way to fetch list of friends using facebook 2.0 API?
I was reading this upgrade from the API and it seems it is quite difficult to fetch the friends now,
but I have seen 2 permissions
read_friendlist
user_friends
Is their any way to fetch list of friends? and what about the widgets that get friends from facebook, will they go down?
In v2.0 of the Graph API /me/friends returns the user's friends who also use the app. You need to be granted the user_friends permission in order to get even app-using friends.
There is no way in v2.0 to get the full user's friends.
However, you may use the https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.0/user/invitable_friends API or the https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.0/user/taggable_friends APIs to get all the user's friends with tokens than can be used for tagging and inviting.
the read_friendlist perm doesn't get you a list of the user's friends, it gets you the list of a user's friendlists which may be used to build a custom privacy selector when publishing stories to Facebook.
As of 4/30/2014, you can only retrieve the friends who also use the app.
There are, however, specific methods for apps in the 'Game' category for inviting friends.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.0/user/invitable_friends/