I'm trying to get facebook feeds from multiple ids using the Facebook Graph API on ios6. I don't think this will work though, as I'm trying to test it in the developers.facebook.com graph explorer tool, and it doesn't work. Here's what I'm doing:
in the graph explorer (where "my id" is my actual numerical id, etc.):
/id="my id"/feed --> this works
/ids="my id","my friend's id"/feed --> this does not work, I get the error
message": "(#803) Some of the aliases you requested do not exist:
ids=,",
"type": "OAuthException",
"code": 803
Do I need to get the feed for all my friends and then filter by id? That seems wasteful.
It appears that you're formatting the query incorrectly
ids is a parameter to the query, not part of the path (which /feed is)
/feed?ids=X,Y,Z should work
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I tried the Instagram-Graph-Api because the current Instagram-API will be shut down soon.
I want to retrieve posts, created with a specific Hashtag and read the Username who created that post.
Unfortunately the username-Field is not supported in the IG Hashtag API
You cannot request the username field on returned media objects.
OK, that's maybe a Facebook-Limitation. So I tried to fetch the Details of an object with the IG Media API. This Api works for Media-Objects what I created with my linked Facebook-Account for the Access-Token, but it does not works with other, public accounts.
Facebook wrote:
Fields marked with an asterisk (*) are public fields, which means they can be returned by an edge using field expansion.
And the username-Field in the documentation is wrapped with an *. So I think it's a public information to what we should have access to?
I do not found any limitation on facebook saying that the IG Media Api only allows to retrieve Elements from Pages where my Access-Token is authorized to, is this currently a limitation because my Facebook-App was not reviewed by Facebook?
This is the Graph-API-Call what I made:
GET https://graph.facebook.com/v7.0/18142822621010864?user_id=17841402377690736&fields=id%2Cusername&access_token=
And this is the response what I get:
{
"error": {
"message": "Unsupported get request. Object with ID '18142822621010864' does not exist, cannot be loaded due to missing permissions, or does not support this operation. Please read the Graph API documentation at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api",
"type": "GraphMethodException",
"code": 100,
"error_subcode": 33,
"fbtrace_id": "AMi0N96iFZ65hgvS1D1upsO"
}
}
Thank you
Matthias
Ok did a lot of research on this one last night. And simply put, Facebook locked down their api pretty hard.
You are not able to see any specific of a media item not owned by yourself.
You are not able to see any comments when your are not tagged or mentioned in the post
You are not able to get the username of media found via hashtags for example.
You should be able to see replies on your comments added to public media you do not own.
I have a project where I have to search Facebook for all people at a
certain location and then apply further filters to the data. My problem and question is:
How do I get the initial data, using Graph API?
I know that it is possible, using the search field in Facebook itself. Just typing "All people living in ???" returns a list of people.
I couldn't find such functionality in the Graph-API of Facebook. Here is what I tried:
I modified some parameters of the standard search request
search?type=user¢er=52.946758,-1.172882&distance=1000
search?type=user¢er=Nottingham&distance=1000
and here is what I got:
{
"error": {
"message": "No node specified",
"type": "GraphMethodException",
"code": 100
}
}
Using a similar query with location instead of center
search?type=user&location=Nottingham&distance=1000
search?type=user&location=52.946758,-1.172882&distance=1000
search?type=user&q=&location=Nottingham
and only got a confusing error that the location I wrote is wrong
{
"error": {
"message": "(#160) Invalid coordinates. Coordinates must contain at least latitude and longitude.",
"type": "OAuthException",
"code": 160
}
}
Then searching for a user with the coordinates as query parameter returned an empty result.
search?type=user&q=52.946758,-1.172882&distance=1000
{"data": []}
Then I tried to search for a correct location to pass to the location parameter of the query
search?type=location&q=52.946758,-1.172882
and I only got a deprecation error
{
"error": {
"message": "(#12) location search is deprecated for versions v2.0 and higher",
"type": "OAuthException",
"code": 12
}
}
I don't know how to get to this. If someone could tell me, how to get this information, it would help
me a lot, since I don't know what to try next.
I have found this question similar to my problem, but the accepted answer isn't really answering the question
Facebook Search API - List all users based on location?
You can either search for a location OR search for a user, but you can definitely not search for "all users in an area". The Graph search on Facebook can handle a lot more things that you will never be able to get with the API. Think about privacy, i would not want any app to know if i am nearby, without even authorizing the App ;)
Facebook docs: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/using-graph-api/v2.2#search
For getting the locatoin where the user is living, you need to check out the user reference: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.2/user
There is a "location" field in there, you need to authorize a user with the "user_location" permission to get that information. It is not possible to get that information from any user. Just because you can see data on Facebook and it is public does not mean you can access it with an App, for privacy reasons this is only possible by authorizing the user.
Scraping without an App is not allowed btw, check out the scraping terms: https://www.facebook.com/apps/site_scraping_tos_terms.php
I tried this -> "firstname lastname location" and it works perfect.
For example -> "Sameeksha kumari australia"
The query looks like this
https://graph.facebook.com/v2.5/search?fields=id,name,picture.type(normal),location&limit=500&q=sameeksha kumari melbourne&type=user&access_token=token
I am testing the Facebook Graph API via their explorer. I managed to get my feed using me/home. However, I want to get some details from uploaded pictures.
As I read on other posts, I have to re-run the query using the object_id in the POST object.
This only works for public images. Whenever I try to do this on a friend's photo, I get:
{
"error": {
"message": "Unsupported get request. Please read the Graph API documentation at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api",
"type": "GraphMethodException",
"code": 100
}
}
One of them was a photo of my wife. I checked her privacy setting, as far as I can see, she doesn't block 3rd party API's.
How can I get photo details of posts that the API returns in me/home?
I know that it doesn't work for photo's with unique permissions (so e.g. with tags in them), but I tested it with photo's only shared with that person's friends. Tested about 10, none of them work. How is this possible?
I've read so many posts regarding this issue, nevertheless no solution was found.
I'm using the graph explorer with ALL permissions selected (on both "User Data Permissions" and "Extended Permissions")
Trying to query a group feed via: /{group-id}/feed
And some posts are missing.
I saw that someone somewhere wrote that FQL will probably overcome this limitation - but Facebook announced that they are going to suppress FQL.
----------------[Try it Yourself]---------------------
Join the group "IT Security" (This is just an example). You can find the group with facebook.com/6340489103
find a post by "Gabor Nagy". Tip: after joining the group, you can access the post directly via "facebook.com/10152587882559104".
Go to the graph explorer (link above)
type /10152587882559104 which is /{post_id}
did you receive "code: 100"?
{
"error": {
"message": "Unsupported post request.",
"type": "GraphMethodException",
"code": 100
}
}
try other posts and see that it works fine
How come I can access this post directly but not through the graph api?
SOLVED!!!! (well, more or less)
I've approached some of the people who posted the posts that cannot be accessed via Graph API.
After some debugging we have found the source.
They all turnd off the Facebook Platform option: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/your-info-on-other#friendsapps
This stops apps from accessing their data.
It doesn't really helps me with my project, but at-least I feel better. ;)
Enjoy
I am having some unusual errors while fetching some data for some users via graph API.
As for example w all know we can get basic user info via graph.facebook.com/username
And it works. But it is not working for some users. Like the user www.facebook.com/sanzida.tanzum is a valid facebook user. So, we should get her basic info via graph.facebook.com/sanzida.tanzum. But when you will try that, you will get the error
{
"error": {
"message": "Unsupported get request.",
"type": "GraphMethodException",
"code": 100
}
}
And it is not a permission issue because use user herself gets the same error when she try to retrive her own data via graph API. Actually the user sanzida.tanzum is invisible to graph API. For example user sanzida.tanzum is on my friend list. You can check here. my friendlist.(it is public). But when I retrive my friendlist via graph API, my friendlist is shown excluding the user sanzida.tanzum ! But she is in my friendlist!
I have tried to contact facebook for this matter because I did not find any doccument related to this matter. They replied it is usual. (probably they did not read my mail at all. I am including the email conversation with facebook)
Hi তৌফিক,
They are getting errors because they are not you... they dont have
permissions to see the same things you do. They might also be missing
an access token. Either way: no bug here.
Thanks,
Emrakul Security Facebook
-----Original Message----- From: *****#ovi.com To: Subject: Report a Security Vulnerability - Unusual bug in facebook graph API
Your Email Address: *****#ovi.com Do you have technical details of
a security vulnerability?: Yes Vulnerability Type: Privacy /
Authentication Vulnerability Scope: Platform Developer API Title:
Unusual bug in facebook graph API Product / URL:
https://graph.facebook.com/sanzida.tanzum Description and Impact: I
was doing some graph API calls for testing purpose. Mostly I was doing
mostly user profile calls. (https://graph.facebook.com/exampleuser)
Somehow I realized facebook is giving following errors for some users
even they are on my friendlist. Same thing occurs when they try by
themselves.
As for eample the user "https://www.facebook.com/sanzida.tanzum" is on
my friendlist. (My friendlist is public.You can check if you want.)
So, according to facebook graph API, I can request the user's basic
info using (https://graph.facebook.com/sanzida.tanzum) But it returns
this error:
"{ "error": {
"message": "Unsupported get request.",
"type": "GraphMethodException",
"code": 100 } }"
Actually graph API can't access nothing of this user. Another
example.. When I request my friendlist via graph API , All friends of
my friendlist is shown except the user (sanzida.tanzum). But she is in
my friendlist! check here (my friendlist is public)
"https://www.facebook.com/toufiqueimam/friends". So why is this
happening only for few users?
Just now I got confirmation that the user herself gets the same error
if she tries to access (https://graph.facebook.com/sanzida.tanzum)
{ "error": {
"message": "Unsupported get request.",
"type": "GraphMethodException",
"code": 100 } }
Reproduction Instructions / Proof of Concept: Reproduction: first go
to https://www.facebook.com/sanzida.tanzum You will see it is a valid
profile. Now try https://graph.facebook.com/sanzida.tanzum You will
get following error
{ "error": {
"message": "Unsupported get request.",
"type": "GraphMethodException",
"code": 100 } }
This isn't a bug, the error means that the data you're trying to access is not accessible to you, does not exist, has been deleted, is not available because you haven't provided an access token from a user who can see it, etc.
See this answer for an example of this error message in relation to Facebook pages: https://stackoverflow.com/a/6847088/21062 - the same is true when trying to access user profiles if that user has blocked you, blocked your app, disabled their account or disabled all apps from accessing their information.
Just an FYI, I ran into this problem, and it wasn't because the user had blocked all applications. In my scenario, my application was attempting to force-convert Facebook's 64 bit integers into a 53 bit JavaScript integer (Node application). It was mangling the value, so when I was making the Facebook GET Request later on in my application lifecycle, I was doing so with the mangled value, and Facebook was trying to tell me "Um, this UserId doesn't exist".
So in my application, I had to use the Node Big-integer add-on, along with the Mongoose mongoose-long plugin for my Mongodb.
Long story short, if you are converting the UserId to it's native 64 bit integer, don't do so unless the intger type in your application is at least 64 bits.