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geekchic
geekchic

Reputation: 2431

Getting the number of mutual friends using Facebook Graph API

So I use the code below to get the users friends first, and then use the users friends IDs to generate the number of mutual friends that they have. Clearly iterating through all the friends and comparing it each time is a lengthy process but it works. However, the page takes a while to load. How do I reduce the time it takes or optimize the following code?

    function getFriends() 

    {
      FB.api('/me/friends', function(response) {
      friendCount = response.data.length;
      $("h2").append(friendCount+ ' friends');
      if(response.data) {
        $.each(response.data,function(index,friend) {
            FB.api('/me/mutualfriends/'+friend.id, function(mutualfriends) {
            $("#results").append('<ul><li>' + friend.name + ' has id:' + friend.id + ' has mutual friends: ' + mutualfriends.data.length + '</li></ul>');
            $("#results").append('<img src="http://graph.facebook.com/' + friend.id + '/picture" />');
            });

        });
    } else {
        console.log("Error!");
    }
    });
    }

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1631

Answers (2)

user1589754
user1589754

Reputation: 649

I know this is a really old question but I am still adding this answer for somebody who may end up looking here.
This is a an optimized way to get count of mutual friends using FQL. 

select mutual_friend_count,uid,name from user where uid in 
(select uid2 from friend where uid1=me()) order by mutual_friend_count desc

Upvotes: 7

p91paul
p91paul

Reputation: 1142

You should use Facebook Batch Api. With it you can enqueue more requests into one, and pay the latency cost only once. https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/batch/

Upvotes: 0

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