I am trying to get the friends of a test user using facebook graph api but it returns only the ids of the friends but not other details like first_name, last_name etc. This works though with real users. I specifically pass the fields that I require (the request looks something like this):
https://graph.facebook.com/me/friends?access_token=...&fields=id%2Cfirst_name%2Clast_name%2Cgender%2Clocale%2Clink%2Clocation%2Cbirthday%2Creligion%2Crelationship_status
The access token is the token granted to the test user when the test user logs in to my application.
I have found a similar SO post but I am not sure what is the solution suggested.
You need to use the App access_token
and this can be tested in the Graph API Explorer by doing the following:
access_token
APP_ID/accounts/test-users?access_token=app_access_token
this would retrieve the test usersTEST_USER_ID/friends?fields=first_name,last_name,gender&access_token=app_access_token
UPDATE:
Based on the comments below, I've tried to retrieve the birthday of the test user's friends but the results were inconsistent.
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: IDs, birthdays and gender were retrieved but not namesaccess_token
: IDs, names and gender were retrieved but not birthdaysHere's a simple code:
<html xmlns:fb="http://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml">
<head></head>
<body>
<div id="fb-root"></div>
<script>
// You can retrieve this from: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/access_token/
var app_access_token = "APP_ACCESS_TOKEN";
window.fbAsyncInit = function() {
FB.init({
appId : 'APP_ID_HERE', // App ID
channelUrl : '//WWW.YOUR_DOMAIN.COM/channel.html', // Channel File
status : true, // check login status
cookie : true, // enable cookies to allow the server to access the session
oauth : true, // enable OAuth 2.0
xfbml : true // parse XFBML
});
// Additional initialization code here
};
// Load the SDK Asynchronously
(function(d){
var js, id = 'facebook-jssdk'; if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}
js = d.createElement('script'); js.id = id; js.async = true;
js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js";
d.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(js);
}(document));
</script>
<table id="friends">
<tr>
<th>ID</th>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Gender</th>
<th>Birthday</th>
</tr>
</table>
<script>
function login(app) {
FB.login(function(response) {
if (response.authResponse) {
var obj = {fields: 'name,gender,birthday', limit: 500};
if(app)
obj.access_token = app_access_token;
FB.api('/'+response.authResponse.userID+'/friends', 'GET', obj, function(response) {
console.log(response);
if(response && response.data.length) {
var html = '';
for(var i=0; i<response.data.length; i++) {
html += "<tr>";
html += "<td>" + response.data[i].id + "</td>";
html += "<td>" + response.data[i].name + "</td>";
html += "<td>" + response.data[i].gender + "</td>";
html += "<td>" + response.data[i].birthday + "</td>";
html += "</tr>";
}
document.getElementById("friends").innerHTML += html;
}
});
} else {
console.log('User cancelled login or did not fully authorize.');
}
}, {scope: 'user_birthday,friends_birthday'});
}
</script>
<button onclick="login();">List Friends With User Token</button>
<button onclick="login(1);">List Freinds With App Token</button>
</body>
</html>
The result using one of my test user accounts:
The first three rows were retrieved with "List Friends With User Token" and the rest with "List Freinds With App Token".
Bottom line, this needs Facebook attention!