I've been playing around the Facebook Graph API for a while now.
I'm trying to get the list of friends using https://graph.facebook.com/me/friends.
While it's working fine, the results are ordered by Id. Is there a way to get them ordered by name, or do I have to reorder them manually via my application layer?
Thanks!
I don't think there is a way of ordering Graph API results, but you can order FQL results. Something like:
SELECT name, uid FROM user WHERE uid IN (SELECT uid2 FROM friend WHERE uid1 = $current_user_id) ORDER BY name
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I'd like to create a call to the Facebook Graph API to find friends who like a specific page.
In FQL it would be something like this:
SELECT uid FROM page_fan WHERE page_id=MYPAGEID AND uid IN (SELECT uid2 FROM friend WHERE uid1 = me())
But this doesn't work as FQL is deprecated.
I can't seem to find a way to do this on the new version of the API.
Any suggestions? Iterating all fans of a page and compare them with the array of is not the best idea I guess? :-)
Thanks,
Koen
Facebook have locked down a lot of options for privacy, but the closest remaining endpoint might be Social Context
So, a call to graph.facebook.com/v2.4/{page_id}/?fields=context should show have a friends_who_like node, which would show you what you're looking for.
Is there any way using the graph api to search all users but to list matching friends first?
If I search using this it requires a user access_token. So it knows who I am. So why does it (almost seem like its) avoiding displaying my friends? Why doesn't it return my friends that match the query first and then after that, anyone else?
Is there a way to make it mimic that functionality?
I also wondered the same thing as the OP. The only thing I've been able to come up with in my research is using FQL...The problem with FQL? After v 2.0 of the Facebook API it will no longer be available--and the version after that it will probably be deprecated.
But in the interest of getting a working solution NOW, I found this SO (third answer down): searching friends using facebook graph api
Here's the example that worked for me:
select uid, name, sex
from user
where uid in (SELECT uid2 FROM friend WHERE uid1 = me())
and (strpos(lower(name),'Jack')>=0 OR strpos(name,'Jack')>=0)
Also, if you want their pic use:
select uid, name, sex, pic_small
from user
where uid in (SELECT uid2 FROM friend WHERE uid1 = me())
and (strpos(lower(name),'Jack')>=0 OR strpos(name,'Jack')>=0)
(I'm getting their small pic but documentation for other sizes of the pic is found here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/user/)
I want to show the photos of an album in my app. Using the graph API i am able to filter and page by month, like below, which is great. I loop trough the results and get the photo for each id. Best of all, the GRAPH API also gives me a 'next' and 'previous' paging link. Very useful.
http://graph.facebook.com/[photo-album-id]/photos/?fields=id&limit=6&since=last month
But now i want to retrieve only those ids filter in two ways:
Only retrieve those in which the user is tagged
Only retrieve those in which the user & his/her friends are tagged.
I couldn't find any way to do this, with the graph API. Is there an alternative via FQL, that still has the paging in there?
Last alternative I can think of is program is in FQL, and do the paging myself.
p.s. I am doing this in Javascript currently.
You can retrieve photos the current user is tagged in in a specific album with this FQL call:
select object_id, src, album_object_id from photo where pid in (select pid from photo_tag where subject=me()) and and album_object_id=somenumber
To retrieve photos in which the user's friends are tagged, for a specific album:
select object_id, src, album_object_id from photo where pid in (select pid from photo_tag where subject in (select uid2 FROM friend WHERE uid1 = me())) and album_object_id=somenumber
As far as I know these results will not be paginated. For a detailed take on how to paginate fb queries see the Facebook Developer Blog: How-To: Paging with the Graph API and FQL
After a little play with the Graph Explorer (https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/) I come up with this solution. You can make a call to Graph API as follows
/me?fields=friends.limit(5).fields(photos.limit(5))
The first limit is for how many friends you want to get and the second limit is how many photos you want from each friend.
At the end of the data there already is the next page URL.
I only tested on the explorer but should work.
Hope that helps,
Doruk
Is there a way to get friends with relationship_status equals Married using Graph API?
I did it using FQL, but some fields aren't equals and I have problems using RestFB with these fields like birthday which have different behaviors using Graph API and FQL.
FQL code do get married friends
SELECT uid, name, relationship_status FROM user WHERE (uid = MY_ID OR uid IN (SELECT uid2 FROM friend WHERE uid1 = MY_ID)) AND relationship_status='Married'
I wanna to do the same with Graph API
Graph API is more clean I think too.
Thanks
You have the exact query to get all married friends.
Just you have to do is call this FQL query using GRAPH API.
See the following blog for more details on how to call an FQL using GRAPH API.
http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/579/
Also please read my answer to this question to just to fix any possible errors when using 'file_get_contents' in your code (as in the example of the FB blog post)
try this..
https://graph.facebook.com/fql?q=SELECT uid, name, relationship_status FROM user WHERE (uid = me() OR uid IN (SELECT uid2 FROM friend WHERE uid1 = me())) AND relationship_status='Married'.
I'm using play framework to create a facebook application. I'm kinda stucked at some point. With Graph Api i can't take a list of friends who use my application. What i want to say is for example:
A is using my application.
B is using my application too and B is a friend of A.
When A is using my application, I want A to see B is also using this application.
Simply I want to get list of friends using same application.
How would i do that with Graph Api?
There is a field called "is_app_user" on the user table that you could run a FQL query against. The query would be something like:
select uid, name
from user
where is_app_user = 1
and uid in (SELECT uid2 FROM friend WHERE uid1 = me())
The graph url for that would be like this (remember to add an access token):
https://api.facebook.com/method/fql.query?query=select uid, name from user where is_app_user = 1 and uid in (SELECT uid2 FROM friend WHERE uid1 = me())&access_token=...
With Friend A's access token do a Post to me/friends to get the list of friends. See if Friend B is on the list. See: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/user/