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Mohib Sheth
Mohib Sheth

Reputation: 1135

API to get user anniversary from Facebook?

I noticed that the Graph API (e.g. GET https://graph.facebook.com/UID) returns relationship_status and significant_other, but does not return an anniversary date for the relationship even if one is present.

Is it possible to see this via the Graph (or even REST) API?

EDIT: There is no API for the same. Instead you could simply screen scrape the user's profile page where anniversary is listed on the bottom. Much easier but its a violation of Facebook's term.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1100

Answers (4)

Frederick Behrends
Frederick Behrends

Reputation: 3095

There is no way to get this right now, hope for an update of the API.

The unofficial only ways would be screen scraping or parsing all posts on the users wall but both ways are not every efficient and screen scraping is not even allowed by the terms of Facebook.

Upvotes: 5

bbosak
bbosak

Reputation: 5529

There is no official way to do this. However, if you are still intent on doing this, you could parse everything on the user's wall, and see when they updated their relationship status to "In a relationship" or married or whatever they do now. This would probably be a better approach than looking for "happy anniversary".

Upvotes: 1

Michael Vain
Michael Vain

Reputation: 486

As mentioned, I have not found this data to be available through the API. Crazy workaround :):

You could parse all the comments your user has posted on the wall of his significant-other. If a post contains "(happy)? anniversary" - that's your date!

Upvotes: 0

Julien Augereau
Julien Augereau

Reputation: 191

There don't seems to be any way to access this information through any Facebook API.

As you told in your question, the only informations available are relationship_status and significant_other (with correct permissions).

Upvotes: 1

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