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How to get a list of people who have checked into a place in Facebook

I'm trying to use Facebook API to get a list of people who checked into a place.

When typing in the search box in Facebook UI People who have been to THE_PLACE I get a long list containing many people, also people who are not my friends or friends of friends.

However, when I try to get the same information from the Facebook API, I get a list that only contains my friends who checked in. The FQL I used is the following (and also some other variants that didn't do better): SELECT author_uid FROM checkin WHERE target_id = THE_UID_OF_THE_PLACE

Am I doing something wrong or is this simply impossible to get via API the same information I can access through the UI?

Solution

  • For privacy reasons, this is not possible at all. Also, FQL is deprecated. I have answered a similar question here: facebook graph API - get last checked users to place/page