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Tim Shi
Tim Shi

Reputation: 257

Query Facebook user's friends through graph API

I'm trying to implement a search bar in an iOS app that searches through a user's friends and displays results. I don't want to have to get all users using https://graph.facebook.com/me/friends and then searching through the results. Is it possible to add a query to such a call (e.g. https://graph.facebook.com/me/friends?q=TIM)? Using the search function of the graph API seems to only search publicly.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5003

Answers (2)

C3roe
C3roe

Reputation: 96413

You can do it using FQL:

SELECT uid, username, first_name, last_name FROM user WHERE uid IN
  (SELECT uid2 FROM friend WHERE uid1 = me()) AND first_name = 'tim'

Although, there’s no explicit wildcard search possible, no LIKE operator supported. But you can fake that using the strpos function.

Upvotes: 1

Philip
Philip

Reputation: 5021

As you can see at the Graph API Explorer, you can't search the list of friends via Graph API, https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer?method=GET&path=me/friends?q=Philip

You can simple get a list with all the friends,
and then in the for loop you use to print the results, you can search for a username/or id.

a simple example:

FB.api('/me/friends/', function(response) {
    if (response) {
        for (var i=0, l=response.data.length; i<l; i++) {
            var friend = response.data[i];
            if(friend.name === 'Philip') {
                alert('Philip Found!');
            }
        }
    }
});

Upvotes: 1

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