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Samvel Israelian
Samvel Israelian

Reputation: 11

Facebook API to access privacy and security settings

Is there a way to get security and privacy settings of a Facebook account? The app that's being designed will need to:

I did a lot of online searching, checked the FB Developer's site, but found nothing relevant so far.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3321

Answers (2)

Igy
Igy

Reputation: 43816

Things you can fetch via the API:

The post visibility chosen by the user for your app:

SELECT name, value, description, allow, deny, networks, friends FROM privacy_setting WHERE name = 'default_stream_privacy'

More details in the privacy_setting FQL table documentation

The user's HTTPS settings (thanks to NappingRabbit for this one too):

/me?fields=security_settings

Returns an object describing the security settings of the user, only HTTPS setting is enabled:

{
  "security_settings": {
    "secure_browsing": {
      "enabled": true
    }
  }, 
  "id": "<USER ID>"
}

The privacy settings associated with individual posts Returned when accessing the posts directly, or via the Privacy FQL table

An example of retrieving the settings directly: USERID_POSTID/?fields=privacy:

privacy": {
    "description": "Friends, <community name>; Except: Restricted", 
    "value": "CUSTOM", 
    "friends": "ALL_FRIENDS"
  }, 
  "id": "POST ID HERE", 
  "created_time": "2012-10-18T02:49:59+0000"
}

There is no API access to the user's privacy settings on Facebook.com (except for content-level privacy as i mentioned above) and attempting to automate logins and crawl Facebook's interface retrieve them will likely trip security protections

Upvotes: 0

NappingRabbit
NappingRabbit

Reputation: 1918

there is the security_settings endpoint, I dont know that it will provide what you are looking for tho... it is /me?fields=security_settings

you can explore it at

http://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer?method=GET&path=me%3Ffields%3Dsecurity_settings

Upvotes: 2

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