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Kalyana Sundaram
Kalyana Sundaram

Reputation: 223

fetching friends info in facebook

I am developing an app to fetch my friends work history and education from facebook

For some of my friends

    graph.facebook.com/me/friends?fields=name,work&.........

gives details about their employers

For a friend xyz I get only the name while using the above url. But when I try

    graph.facebook.com/xyz?fields=name,work

I get his work details also.

What is the difference between these two urls?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 149

Answers (2)

Syed Salman Raza Zaidi
Syed Salman Raza Zaidi

Reputation: 2192

May be your friend xyz1 have set privacy on work history,thats why you are not getting it

Upvotes: 0

rink.attendant.6
rink.attendant.6

Reputation: 46287

The first URI, https://graph.facebook.com/me/friends?fields=name,work, returns information about the current logged-in user's friends. Depending on the permissions given by that user (the person using your application) to your application, you may or may not be able to get their friends' work information (or any other detail that you're requesting).

The second URI, https://graph.facebook.com/xyz?fields=name,work, returns information about a specific user (in your case, xyz). Whether or not you can do this is also dependent on if that information is public or authorized for the access token of your application I believe.

Try exploring the Facebook Graph using the Graph API Explorer.

Upvotes: 1

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