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buraktibet
buraktibet

Reputation: 29

Getting user data from facebook graph api but user id doesn't work

I am using facebook graph api as below;

https://graph.facebook.com/v2.0/search?q=search+string+here&type=user&access_token=accessTOKENhere

and it results as; 

"data": [
      {
         "name": "search+string+here",
         "id": "10152202833927632"
      }
   ],

When I was first testing this I was using the id like;

http://www.facebook.com/10152202833927632

and I was able to see the page of the user. But now I realize that this link doesn't work. When I check from other sources, the real id of the user is not same with this one.

Does anyone know why graph api returns me a different kind of (not working) id?

Thanks in advance!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1168

Answers (2)

Fredrik
Fredrik

Reputation: 764

App-scoped IDs were introduced in Graph API v2.0. Read more about how they work and how you handle them here.

Upvotes: 0

WizKid
WizKid

Reputation: 4908

The ID is an app scoped user ID. Do a request to graph.facebook.com/10152202833927632 and in the request there is a link property that you can use to link to that user

Upvotes: 1

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