Is there a way to get the user IDs of all the people who are using your Facebook application?
Doing an extensive research I concluded that there's NO method to do this!
What I have found:
An old REST API called friends.getAppUsers that gets all the IDs of the user's friends that authorized the application.
What I wish I had found:
After reading the App Login section in the authentication document:
In addition to User Login, Facebook
Platform support App Login using
the OAuth 2.0 Client Credential flow.
App Login allows you to take various
administrative actions for your app,
such as retrieving Insights data or
approving Requests.
I thought the application object would have a direct method for this (similar to accounts):
$facebook->api("/APP_ID/users");
But I was wrong. And then with the introduction of the insights feature, I was shocked that you can only get the count of the User IDs!
What you can do:
Storing the User ID in your DB as soon as a user authorize your application and if your application already has users (most likely the case), check if you have a record for each user that interacts with your application in your DB...this way, you'll get the User IDs for your active users in no time.
Just a little more on this - I managed to find a lot of the userIDs I was looking for by doing basic Graph API searches and then checking they were valid with my app.
Search an email address or username here:- https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer?method=GET
QUERY: https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=user#email.com&type=user
If you get a match or more than one, you can check it is valid as install on the FQL query button of the same explorer:-
SELECT uid FROM user WHERE uid = *USER_ID_TO_SEARCH* AND is_app_user = 1
If it appears as a uid, you're good - they're valid. This helped me get to what I needed (when I hadn't got some of my app users info on signup).
GET /v2.10/{app-id}/accounts
You will get all the accounts for the application
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I am working on an app using Laravel that retrieves posts from facebook pages (using fb IPA) then make some operations on them, this tool can be used with no login or creating an account, and my question is:
how and to store the temporary data I get from the API since I don't have users knowing this app can be used by many people at the same time?
I guess you could solve this in several ways. I'm not quite sure what you do the get the data.
You'll need something unique to relate to the data. In case you login to the API using OAuth you could request the user profile of the user (example here using the Facebook SDK) and grab the user id or the email address. In case you do not login then you could use something like the session id.
We are trying to update Facebook login for a device and found out different uid generated while login via PC browser and device login method. The uid generated by browser can get user feeds, but it return empty for uid generated by device login. Does anyone know why there is different uid for same user?
It's by design so that unrelated apps can't correlate their users.
Straight from the upgrade docs, emphasis mine;
App-scoped User IDs
Facebook will begin to issue app-scoped user IDs when people first log into an instance of your app coded against v2.0 of the API. With app-scoped IDs, the ID for the same user will be different between apps.
No matter what version they originally used to sign up for your app, the ID will remain the same for people who have already logged into your app. This change is backwards-compatible for anyone who has logged into your app at any point in the past.
If you're not mapping IDs across apps, then no code changes should be required. If you need to map the same user IDs across multiple apps or run cross-app promotions, we've added a new API called the Business Mapping API. This lets you map a logged-in user's IDs across apps as long as those apps are all owned by the same business.
Is there a way to get the user IDs of all the people who are using your Facebook application?
Doing an extensive research I concluded that there's NO method to do this!
What I have found:
An old REST API called friends.getAppUsers that gets all the IDs of the user's friends that authorized the application.
What I wish I had found:
After reading the App Login section in the authentication document:
In addition to User Login, Facebook
Platform support App Login using
the OAuth 2.0 Client Credential flow.
App Login allows you to take various
administrative actions for your app,
such as retrieving Insights data or
approving Requests.
I thought the application object would have a direct method for this (similar to accounts):
$facebook->api("/APP_ID/users");
But I was wrong. And then with the introduction of the insights feature, I was shocked that you can only get the count of the User IDs!
What you can do:
Storing the User ID in your DB as soon as a user authorize your application and if your application already has users (most likely the case), check if you have a record for each user that interacts with your application in your DB...this way, you'll get the User IDs for your active users in no time.
Just a little more on this - I managed to find a lot of the userIDs I was looking for by doing basic Graph API searches and then checking they were valid with my app.
Search an email address or username here:- https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer?method=GET
QUERY: https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=user#email.com&type=user
If you get a match or more than one, you can check it is valid as install on the FQL query button of the same explorer:-
SELECT uid FROM user WHERE uid = *USER_ID_TO_SEARCH* AND is_app_user = 1
If it appears as a uid, you're good - they're valid. This helped me get to what I needed (when I hadn't got some of my app users info on signup).
GET /v2.10/{app-id}/accounts
You will get all the accounts for the application
I'm trying to implement facebook connect to my website, and i have couple questions.
1: Is it possible to register user in my website using his current facebook email/password.
Let's say user clicks on link Register via facebook and then he have to give me permisions to access his password, email, etc... and after that is done i put that info in my own database and he will be able to login with that account any time he wants without needing to give me permisions any time in the future.
2: If that kind of registration is not possible, what's other solution would be the best for me? Because i need to somehow keep track of that user who logged in with facebook, because he can upload photos, send messages etc.
Anyways, i'm quite new with facebook and similar things, so i'm really lost here, hope some one can help me :)
EDIT Thank you all for wonderful answers it helped me a lot, now all that's left is to read documentation :)
Yes it is, it is possible to get the information of the user. But it is rather complicated, when you have never dealt with it.
First you need to send the user to the following link:
https://m.facebook.com/dialog/oauth?client_id=your-client-id&redirect_uri=xxx&scope=listof-information-you-want
Facebook will then return your client to the uri specified, if the user rejected it will give a reason. If it is not you will get an code in urlencoded format.
This code is needed for the following step, the request of the access token:
https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?redirect_uri=xxx&client_id=xxx&client_secret=xxx&code=xxxx
This will give back an access token, if the authorization didn't fail.
After that you can ask for the information you want:
https://graph.facebook.com/me?method=GET&metadata=true&format=json&access_token=access_token
This will include a facebook uid, which is unique for all users. Store it and you can discern between a register and login.
This is roughly the process for any oauth2 application.
Facebook will not ask repeatedly for permissions after the user granted them to you. So you can store the access token and reuse it for backend stuff and also use the same procedure you use for register for login.
You can never access the user's password from Facebook even with his/her permission, so the user will always have to authenticate via Facebook and have Facebook pass you the user id of the logged in user once authentication succeeds. You can store all kinds of other data locally, but not enough to authenticate the user yourself.
Once the user is authenticated, you'll have access to the user's Facebook user id via the API, which should be enough to connect all kinds of information to that specific user.
Facebook does not provide access to accounts when passwords are taken from your controls. It provides it own canvas for login information. Therefore you cannot use your first approach to store passwords in your databases. Check this out.
You can however store email addresses once user logins into his account using the facebook sdks. Check this out link for the example of C# SDK sample code.
You can use the Facebook APIs to fetch user email-id, photos, friendslist and other information and then play around accordingly.
You don't get access to the users password - only email if you ask for it.
Best way would be to have a table of users and their Facebook account id's.
If you want to allow users to sign up without Facebook then have a nullable field for their password and facebook id, and also have a field for username - which you could populate from Facebook if they register via that route.
I've been trying to figure out a way to have my iframe Facebook app (built in PHP) work without requiring separate authentication methods. I am already logged into Facebook, but for some reason I still see all these Oauth notices from the example in the PHP SDK.
The only data I need is publicly available even without them "adding" my app. I am looking to collect their Facebook ID (since this is a contest, we need a unique ID for tracking), their name and (optionally) their email address as well.
The problem is, I cannot use the API to fetch the public information unless I already know their Facebook username. Any ideas on how I might be able to get their logged-in username or public handle so I can then fetch the rest of the information?
For whatever reason, Oauth is driving me completely insane with Facebook today.
Sidenote:
I did manage to technically get the Javascript SDK operational, which fed some information to PHP for use. The only issue there is that once I login, I don't see the data. If I refresh...then it shows up. Unsure why the refresh is required, as I wouldn't expect a user to actually have to hit refresh in order to proceed with the app.
I guess you are a bit confused here, Facebook will NOT share the username, id, full name or email without the user explicitly authorizing/allowing your application (and in the case of the email, requesting the email permission!).
Read the official Canvas Tutorial for more information:
In order to gain access to all the user information available to your
app by default (like the user's Facebook ID), the user must authorize
your app.