How do you retrieve the "Place" field of a Facebook Graph Post object? - facebook

Question

I am trying to retrieve the "Place" field of a Facebook Graph Post object from a Facebook friend. After obtaining an access token with the friends_status and read_stream permissions, I request from the Graph API like so:
http://graph.facebook.com/[user_id]_[post_id]
What is returned are some of the fields described in the Graph API docs for Post:
{
"id": "1164358582_2458311174854",
"from": {
"name": "Joe Blo",
"id": "1164358582"
},
"message": "Is pretty bummed today",
"actions": [
{
"name": "Comment",
"link": "http://www.facebook.com/1164358582/posts/2458311174854"
},
{
"name": "Like",
"link": "http://www.facebook.com/1164358582/posts/2458311174854"
}
],
"type": "status",
"application": {
"name": "Facebook for Android",
"id": "350685531721"
},
"created_time": "2011-11-20T03:23:04+0000",
"updated_time": "2011-11-20T12:12:49+0000",
"comments": {
"data": [
{
"id": "1164358582_2458311174852_2962531",
"from": {
"name": "Sue Candy",
"id": "1056617421"
},
"message": "OMG I'm so sorry!!!",
"created_time": "2011-11-20T03:25:06+0000"
}
],
"count": 1
}
}
This is all fine and dandy, except for the fact that when I see this Post within my Facebook stream, it also shows a location accompanying the post:
9 hours ago near El Reno, OK
I expected the El Reno, OK Place object returned as a field within this Post, but I don't see it.
In the Facebook Graph API Explorer, I've tried enabling almost every permission and I am not seeing any difference in the response (no "Place" field returned). Am I going about this incorrectly?

Answer 1

Not 100% sure but I think you can only get the "place" info if it is of type "checkin". I totally get where you are coming from, I wondered about that myself.
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/
Try the Graph API Explorer Tool if you haven't already looked at it.