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Elby
Elby

Reputation: 1674

Facebook Community

how to find a facebook url is community url or profile url using facebook API

For example http://www.facebook.com/adelphi.panthers

http://www.facebook.com/BryantAthletics

Which is profile url and which is community url, how to find?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 400

Answers (3)

Tabish
Tabish

Reputation: 1702

If you are working with java then don't pass any parameter of gender type.
it will automatically accept.
I had the same problem but now its resolved. 

My working code is: 

User user = client.fetchObject("username", User.class);
        System.out.println("Gender: " + user.getGender());

Upvotes: 0

Kent Pawar
Kent Pawar

Reputation: 2596

Well as @Lix has suggested you could do something like this:

Request: https://graph.facebook.com/BryantAthletics?fields=gender

HTTP Response: 400 Bad Request

JSON Response:

{
   "error": {
      "message": "(#100) Unknown fields: gender.",
      "type": "OAuthException",
      "code": 100
   }
}

This tells us its NOT a User object. But then it could be a group or a page.. So you need to make another request using an attribute that is unique either to a group or page. Depending on how you make the request, you could decide to handle the result accordingly.

Consider,

Request: https://graph.facebook.com/adelphi.panthers?fields=gender

HTTP Response: 200 OK

JSON Response:

{
   "gender": "female",
   "id": "1360823630"
}

Now this tells us that the gender attribute exist within this Facebook object and so it is definitely a user.

I'm assuming you are using JQuery to capture and parse the response. Then you would check for the error attribute in the JSON variable to determine the object type.

Upvotes: 2

Lix
Lix

Reputation: 47966

The links you provided were for a Facebook user and for a Facebook page. I'm going to assume that by "community url" you mean Facebook page...

Ok, so I think it will be pretty simple to detect what is a Facebook Page and what is a User according to the username (or ID).

All you would have to do (in these cases), is query the Graph API with the username - 

https://graph.facebook.com/adelphi.panthers

{
  "id": "1360823630", 
  "name": "Adelphi Panthers", 
  "first_name": "Adelphi", 
  "last_name": "Panthers", 
  "link": "https://www.facebook.com/adelphi.panthers", 
  "username": "adelphi.panthers", 
  "gender": "female", 
  "locale": "en_US", 
  "updated_time": "2012-10-09T12:51:38+0000"
}

As you can see, this call to the API returned a gender parameter. Pages can not have genders so we can assume this is a Facebook User. 

https://graph.facebook.com/BryantAthletics

{
  "name": "Bryant Athletics", 
  "is_published": true, 
  "website": "bryantbulldogs.com", 
  "username": "BryantAthletics", 
  ...
  "category": "School sports team", 
  ...
}

You can see here that much much more information is being returned to us. I think the Category parameter is a good indication that this specific username is related to a page. Users can not choose a category for themselves...

Upvotes: 2

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