I want to select friends of friends of an user from Facebook. Is there an easy way to do it without searching for a friend list for every friend list of the actual user?
Not sure what you mean with "searching for a friend list for every friend", but what you want to achieve is not possible at all. You don´t even get all friends anymore, only those who authorized your App too, with the user_friends permission. It is NOT possible to get friends of friends (second degree).
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I am able to get list of inviteable friends using this https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.2/user/invitable_friends.
But I am not getting ids of Facebook friends.
Or if it is not possible Can I get list of invited_friends?
I want to show friends as "invited" if user has invited them.
You get an invite token, not the ID of the users. The invite token is only valid for a short time, so you cannot use it to identify users later. There is no way to get a list of invited friends either.
In api v2.x, we cannot fetch the user frienda ids. In previous api version, we could fetch all fb friend ids. Invited friends ids was been saved on app server and filter that out from all friends to show invited icon. But in latest version this solution will not work, as there is no call available to fetch friends ids.
Simply executing this query aiming to list all my friend's friends:
GET https://graph.facebook.com/hisFacebookUserId/friends?return_ssl_resources=1&access_token=hisAccessToken
I obtain an empty data entry. => as if it had 0 friends. (but he has 800).
However, it works for many other users.
What might be the reason?
Since v2.0 of the Facebook API, you can only get the friends who authorized your App too. It´s a (privacy) feature, not a bug.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/changelog
Also, it´s not necessary to use an ID for the call, because you can only get the friends of the authorized User anyway:
/me/friends
Btw, don´t forget to authorize Users with the user_friends permission.
I am building an app where users can send picture messages to friends and would like users to see their Facebook friends list when they login through FB. However, I am confused by Facebook's new API information regarding the access that an app can have to display someone's list of friends. On the FB change log information page it says:
1) Friend list is no longer part of the default permission set and has its own permission: Asking for access to a person's friend list is now a separate permission that your app must request. The new permission is called user_friends.
2) Friend list now only returns friends who also use your app: The list of friends returned via the /me/friends endpoint is now limited to the list of friends that have authorized your app.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/changelog
Does this mean that my app will only display to users their Friends that are also using my app? Is there no way for a User to see their entire friends list? And if not, how can I prompt the User to invite new friends to use my app?
Thanks.
Yes, that is exactly what it means, and for what you want to do there is no way to get the friends who did not authorize your App. But maybe you want to use the Send Dialog instead: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/reference/send-dialog
For that, you don't even need to authorize the user and he can choose the receiver on his own.
My app needs to generate a list of friends for the logged in user, as well as the friends of the friends. The logged in user has authorized the app. So I have no trouble getting their friends. When I make the /friends/ call to the API using one of the friends' IDs, I get this error message:
Can't lookup all friends of [FB ID]. Can only lookup for the logged in user or the logged in user's friends that are users of your app.
I knew that the public visibility of one's friends is a configurable setting for each individual user, but if I understand this message correctly it means that you simply cannot do what I'm trying... ever.
Question #1: Is this true? Is there simply no way to lookup someone's friends' friends?
Question #2: If it's not possible, how do sites like Glassdoor.com manage this exact functionality?
You cannot get the friends of friends of the person who is using the app.
Glassdoor.com sends invitations to the user's friends and when someone accepts, they simply get his friends since he becomes a user of their app.
I've recently started looking into the Facebook API and am trying to work out how to retrieve the list of friends of another user (in this case the user is someone I'm friends with).
So far I've only worked out how to find out the friends of a person who I am also friends with. However the Friends Wheel application can do it as you can generate a wheel base on one of your friends, so I'm guessing it is possible.
Anyone know how to do this?
You Can only access friends list of logged in user(i.e, your friend list) or the logged in user's friends that are users of your app. i.e, You can access friends friend list only if your friends are the users of your app.
You can check if two of your friends are friends using friends.are_friends.
Once you've got a valid access token for a user, you can query the Graph API with said token and query the "friends" connection of the user object (/me/friends). So if your user ID is "123":
https://graph.facebook.com/123/friends?access_token=USERS_ACCESS_TOKEN
You can also use /me to reference the current user:
https://graph.facebook.com/me/friends?access_token=USERS_ACCESS_TOKEN
Without a valid access token, you cannot query information about users and access to friends of friends is determined by each user. For example, I cannot see some of my friend's friends:
Can't lookup all friends of (ID). Can only lookup for the logged in
user (ID), or friends of the logged in user with the appropriate
permission.
...but for some of my other friends, I can. There's probably a permission or flag you can check to see if they allow access, but I'm not currently seeing it.
I figured this out.
1) The best you can do is find mutual friends
2) Try using the v1.0 of the Facebook Graph API. v2.0 doesn't have /mutualfriends.
3) Since I was only interested in my own social network, I grabbed the access token from the graph explorer and wrote a python script to download my whole social network. The code is on github
Yes, its possible to get List of Friends of a friend but only condition is that friend should be user of that application.
Suppose there is an application "APP" used by "A" then the APP can get his friends List , now you want friends List of "B" who is friend of "A" , it will be possible only if "B" also uses the "APP"
Facebook are in the process of deprecating the REST API, and have added equivalent support to the Graph API for this method. You can use Graph API - User object and Get /User_id1/friends/User_id2 to check if User_id1 is friends with User_id2 .