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user3610691

Reputation: 363

Paging in Facebook API Taggable Friends Endpoint

I noticed that when you use the taggable_friends endpoint on the Facebook API you get dumped what looks like all your friends. At the bottom it has an array:

 [paging] => Array
        (
            [cursors] => Array
                (
                    [before] => QWFLa3MyVFBjQnQ2Y0hiTGVlMFR0QzFpeWFSNTRDNXHNMUHlhN1NqdzZrMU85enFHQUw4YjQtRF9FV2RrbHROcER3c3ljLTNuajdJRm1uX3c=
                    [after] => QWFJUDdOVS1YYmMwVjJObGlRY0FVeW4zemoyVGnaEd3bTJFZ3E2Q0hjVkhkREtuc2VIQ1p2MWhWZnRmblpXU2x2RS15LUFjdl9hQWlzQ1pFcUVkTXc=
                )

        )

However, there doesn't look to be anything to use these cursors with. Is this an unfinished pagination feature or am i missing something?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 763

Answers (1)

Igy
Igy

Reputation: 43816

Those are paging cursors, documented here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/using-graph-api/v2.1#paging

Specifically:

before : This is the cursor that points to the start of the page of data that has been returned.

after : This is the cursor that points to the end of the page of data that has been returned.

You can use the 'after' cursor to make a second request and see only the records added after that, subject to the restriction that if the 'after' record itself was deleted, the request will fail.

If there's no 'next'/'previous' links returned, it's probably because there are no records not in the result set you retrieved

Upvotes: 2

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