facebook group members Bio information

Question

I am interested in retrieving a Facebook group members' Bio information.

I have created an app where I have requested permission of about user_about_me and the app is under review for submission.

I have coded for the app in JSP but it can only select name, gender, last_name, first_name only. It is not selecting the Bio information.

I face the same problem even in the graph API explorer, when I use

{group_ID}/members 

I can retrieve list of all group members. But I can not see more details than the following:

  "data": [
    {
      "name": "name", 
      "administrator": false, 
      "id": "USER ID"
    },
    .. 

When I click on the ID (or enter the ID in the explorer), I can only get the following:

{
   "id": "member_ID", 
   "first_name": "firstname", 
   "last_name": "lastname", 
   "link": "https://www.facebook.com/app_scoped_user_id/...", 
   "name": "name  ", 
   "updated_time": "2015-02-07T10:02:58+0000" 
}

This is not showing the Bio information. when I enter the following:

 {member_ID}?fields=bio

I just get

{
  "id": "10153223503039309"
}

I will appreciate if someone please identify me the problem. I believe this problem will also solve my code problem, where at the moment I am unable to retrieve the group member's Bio information too.

Is it possible that the problem will be resolved after the app's acceptance, which is under review?

Thanks you very much.

Syed

Answer 1

You can´t just grab more information from the user just because he is a member of some group. You would have to let him authorize your App with the correct permissions in order to get more data.