I have the following rest url:
facebook.com/4?fields=about,birthday,education,bio,age_range,email,first_name,gender
I don't understand why it shows only the name and id? I thought that those fields are public, or am I wrong ?
Thanks
No, of course you have to get permission from the user before getting any data: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/permissions
"Public" does not mean you can grab everything with an App. And you should always use /me instead of /user-id. /me points to the authorized user, there is no need to use the id.
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I have working log-in process with Facebook using Kinvey MIC in my NativeScript app. I am able to log-in into the Kinvey and _socialIdentity record is successfully created. Due to the fact that I need to know also user's email registered with FB account (that is not sent in basic User response from FB), I need to query FB Graph API for that.
https://graph.facebook.com/v3.2/me?fields=id,name,email&access_token= + accessToken
If I use a accessToken stored in Kinvey's _socialIdentity, FB returns:
"error": {
JS: "message": "Invalid OAuth access token.",
JS: "type": "OAuthException",
JS: "code": 190,
JS: }
If I use accessToken generated by FB developers tool and hardcode it into my NS code, everything works well - I receive all requested info.
The difference I found is length of the accessToken:
accessToken stored in Kinvey has 40 characters but the one generated by FB tools has 247 characters.
Could somebody explain why FB accessToken in Kinvey's _socialIdentity is short/impossible for further use or how to get a valid accessToken using kinvey-nativescript-sdk?
Also if somebody achieved to get an user's contact email from FB account using kinvey-nativescript-sdk.
Thank you
Can you try adding client_token to the Allowed Attributes section of the Mobile Identity Connect service configuration?
That will create a new attribute on the kinveyAuth object (that is contained in the _socialIdentity attribute of the User entity), which will hold the access token that you are talking about.
Can you try that, and let me know if it works?
Edit: You can also try adding idp_access_token to the Allowed Attributes section. That will directly create an attribute to the kinveyAuth entity, which will hold only the needed token.
I need to get the userid of the person who creates the post, and based on the documentation: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.9/post#read
This information is in the admin_creator field. Example: {post-id}?fields=admin_creator I am already the admin of the page and manage_pages permission, so I dont understand what is going on... Thanks!
you must be an administrator for the page.
{post-id} must be a scoped id.
like this : 618683548311391_851244161721994
https://graph.facebook.com/v2.9/{page_id}/posts?fields=admin_creator&access_token={page_access_token}
PS: This endpoint requires an access_token from the page
I'm currently working on a facebook app which captures wall posts for a specified user, page or group, after a user has authorized the app I quote the access_token that is returned to call the method
https://graph.facebook.com//feed?access_token=
this works fine for pages and groups as we only need a valid token, however for users the results are different depending on the relationship between the user who authorized the app the user whose posts are being captured.
For example if there is no relationship between the two users some posts are not returned even though they are public and displayed when you view the profile of the user, however if they are friends more posts are returned.
Can someone please explain this behaviour? And is it possible to obtain all posts using this method?
Yes, per the permissions listed at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/permissions the results of the call are different depending upon the relationship.
However when things are public and you use an access token that doesn't belong to the user, then no results are returned. I cannot remember a time when this wasn't this way. For some odd reason (by design or omission on Facebook's part) using the graph API to get at public posts using a user access token just doesn't want to work.
For example, You can see some public items here
http://www.facebook.com/zuck
http://graph.facebook.com/zuck
However, you cannot seem to get any feed from here without an access token
https://graph.facebook.com/zuck/feed
{
"error": {
"message": "An access token is required to request this resource.",
"type": "OAuthException"
}
}
Let's try adding an user access token that does not belong to zuck or a friend of zuck. https://graph.facebook.com/zuck/feed?access_token={UserAccessToken}
And here's what we get:
{
"data": [
]
}
What about an app access token? Let's try
https://graph.facebook.com/zuck/feed?access_token={AppAccessToken}
{
"error": {
"message": "Invalid OAuth access token signature.",
"type": "OAuthException"
}
}
So as you can see, it's difficult to get things via the graph that are not in alignment with your access token.
I manage to get most of the feeds from user's wall post. Although this is a old post, I hope someone can manage to get what they want from my answer.
Before getting the access token(to get the feeds), you need to add multiple correct Read Permissions "keys".
For example, you will have to add "read_stream", and "user_status" (which I found that these are the most important permission "key" to generate the correct access token, to retrieve one's so-called "public" feeds).
You can add more into generating the access token, in either you want the permission to GET, or POST, or BOTH.
Source is here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/howtos/ios-6/#nativeauthdialog
One thing that I found is, the way to get the feeds result from user's "Home/About" page and Facebook Page (which is created for people to like (not add friends)) are different. The key is mentioned above, "read_stream", and "user_status". So it's better that you add both of the permissions in order to generate the access token to get everything in feeds.
Graph API doesn't return posts to the App if is not authorized to read user feed, even if posts are public.
Source: https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/290004301178437/
According to the latest api ,
FB.api("/me/feed","get",function(response) {//callback})
should do and also work well .
It is working now but facebook may change it in future.
Is there a way to get the location/hometown (whichever available) using the facebook graph API?
The catch here is I do not want the user to go through an authentication process, meaning I want to get the location/hometown without having the access_token
Therefore, the following case would be void
https://graph.facebook.com/USERID?fields=location,hometown&access_token=USER_ACCESS_TOKEN
Please help
Regards
access token is required with the following permissions
user_hometown
user_location
use hometown_location field of a user table to get location details. We get this info. only if a user shares it's location detail public.
If you have the permissions to access this user data, you just have to parse the key-value dict to your model, eg:
self.user.location = [user objectForKey:#"location"][#"name"];
same for hometown:
self.user.hometown = [user objectForKey:#"hometown"][#"name"];
Regards.
I'm trying to figure out how to get users friends information using either Graph API or FQL
Just for testing I would like to get my friends education_histroy.
To do that I created a test app, requested extended permissions using
scope=offline_access,manage_friendlists,friends_work_history,
friends_education_history,friends_about_me
and got access token to play with the API.
It works great when I query for current user using /me. But it returns nothing for my friends.
I was assuming that if I request, let's say friends_work_history, that extra field (work_history) will appear inside friend's object, when I query by friend's id:
https://graph.facebook.com/FRIEND_ID&access_token=TOKEN
But all I see is basic info about that user (friend).
Then I tried to request that field specifically:
https://graph.facebook.com/FRIEND_ID?fields=work&access_token=TOKEN
With no luck again. Returns just friend's id..
I tried to access that information with FQL:
https://api.facebook.com/method/fql.query?query=select+work_history+from+user+where+uid+in+(FRIEND_ID)&access_token=TOKEN
Returns work_history = TRUE instead of array. And that friend definitely has work history specified.
Can someone help me to understand how to get friends info using my app and extended permissions?
Graph API is the smart choice in most cases. To retrieve your friend information you need to collect some extended permissions from the user first. Then you can retrieve a lot more information other than the basic ones.
Following is a list of extended permissions related to friends different kind of information
friends_about_me
friends_activities
friends_birthday
friends_checkins
friends_education_history
friends_events
friends_games_activity
friends_groups
friends_hometown
friends_interests
friends_likes
friends_location
friends_notes
friends_online_presence
friends_photo_video_tags
friends_photos
friends_relationship_details
friends_relationships
friends_religion_politics
friends_status
friends_subscriptions
friends_videos
friends_website
friends_work_history
Hope it helps :)
I've been wrestling with this all day myself and I believe I have figured it out, nowhere in facebook documentation (that I have found) is this clear. And I don't believe the other answers actually answered your question, it looks like you requested permissions correctly. Anyway, to request the information you are looking for, ping the api like this:
https://graph.facebook.com/userid/friends?fields=work&access_token=ACCESSTOKENHERE
This will return you all the friends' info in one long JSON response.
It is a little confusing because the permissions you are asking for are not the same thing you need to query the API.
The query above will return the friends' ids with work history. You can add commas to the fields parameter to include additional info like name, but then the API calls/responses end up taking a long time.
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/user/
you can get all the fields mentioned here .To get work you need to have user_work_history or friends_work_history permission
in the link it is mentioned what permissions to obtain before you get the info and another thing that user has to allow your application,this will make your app to get the informations.
From this answer to another question: a call to 'me/friends?fields=work' worked for me!
I'd suggest that you go to http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/user/ like most of the others are suggesting but as a general tip, use the friends_education_history as a way to get the friend's history.
P.S: Minor spelling error in your original question that should be edited. "education_histroy." = education_history
in the second line of your main paragraph.
You can use this code you will get name, profile picture, ID of your friends.
FB.api('/me/taggable_friends', function(response) {
for (var i = 0; i < friend_data.length; i++) {
results += ''+friend_data[i].name;
}
});
Before that in your developer account created app-> go to tools and support->graph API explorer-> click Get Token. In that window click user_tagged_places and click Get Access Token. You will get your friends list.