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Can you get a current users friendlist with facebook API? [duplicate]

I am trying to get my friend name and ids with Graph API v2.0, but data returns empty:
{
"data": [
]
}
When I was using v1.0, everything was OK with the following request:
FBRequest* friendsRequest = [FBRequest requestForMyFriends];
[friendsRequest startWithCompletionHandler: ^(FBRequestConnection *connection,
NSDictionary* result,
NSError *error) {
NSArray* friends = [result objectForKey:#"data"];
NSLog(#"Found: %i friends", friends.count);
for (NSDictionary<FBGraphUser>* friend in friends) {
NSLog(#"I have a friend named %# with id %#", friend.name, friend.id);
}
}];
But now I cannot get friends!

In v2.0 of the Graph API, calling /me/friends returns the person's friends who also use the app.
In addition, in v2.0, you must request the user_friends permission from each user. user_friends is no longer included by default in every login. Each user must grant the user_friends permission in order to appear in the response to /me/friends. See the Facebook upgrade guide for more detailed information, or review the summary below.
If you want to access a list of non-app-using friends, there are two options:
If you want to let your people tag their friends in stories that they publish to Facebook using your App, you can use the /me/taggable_friends API. Use of this endpoint requires review by Facebook and should only be used for the case where you're rendering a list of friends in order to let the user tag them in a post.
If your App is a Game AND your Game supports Facebook Canvas, you can use the /me/invitable_friends endpoint in order to render a custom invite dialog, then pass the tokens returned by this API to the standard Requests Dialog.
In other cases, apps are no longer able to retrieve the full list of a user's friends (only those friends who have specifically authorized your app using the user_friends permission). This has been confirmed by Facebook as 'by design'.
For apps wanting allow people to invite friends to use an app, you can still use the Send Dialog on Web or the new Message Dialog on iOS and Android.
UPDATE: Facebook have published an FAQ on these changes here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/faq which explain all the options available to developers in order to invite friends etc.

Although Simon Cross's answer is accepted and correct, I thought I would beef it up a bit with an example (Android) of what needs to be done. I'll keep it as general as I can and focus on just the question. Personally I wound up storing things in a database so the loading was smooth, but that requires a CursorAdapter and ContentProvider which is a bit out of scope here.
I came here myself and then thought, now what?!
The Issue
Just like user3594351, I was noticing the friend data was blank. I found this out by using the FriendPickerFragment. What worked three months ago, no longer works. Even Facebook's examples broke. So my issue was 'How Do I create FriendPickerFragment by hand?
What Did Not Work
Option #1 from Simon Cross was not strong enough to invite friends to the app. Simon Cross also recommended the Requests Dialog, but that would only allow five requests at a time. The requests dialog also showed the same friends during any given Facebook logged in session. Not useful.
What Worked (Summary)
Option #2 with some hard work. You must make sure you fulfill Facebook's new rules: 1.) You're a game 2.) You have a Canvas app (Web Presence) 3.) Your app is registered with Facebook. It is all done on the Facebook developer website under Settings.
To emulate the friend picker by hand inside my app I did the following:
Create a tab activity that shows two fragments. Each fragment shows a list. One fragment for available friend (/me/friends) and another for invitable friends (/me/invitable_friends). Use the same fragment code to render both tabs.
Create an AsyncTask that will get the friend data from Facebook. Once that data is loaded, toss it to the adapter which will render the values to the screen.
Details
The AsynchTask
private class DownloadFacebookFriendsTask extends AsyncTask<FacebookFriend.Type, Boolean, Boolean> {
private final String TAG = DownloadFacebookFriendsTask.class.getSimpleName();
GraphObject graphObject;
ArrayList<FacebookFriend> myList = new ArrayList<FacebookFriend>();
#Override
protected Boolean doInBackground(FacebookFriend.Type... pickType) {
//
// Determine Type
//
String facebookRequest;
if (pickType[0] == FacebookFriend.Type.AVAILABLE) {
facebookRequest = "/me/friends";
} else {
facebookRequest = "/me/invitable_friends";
}
//
// Launch Facebook request and WAIT.
//
new Request(
Session.getActiveSession(),
facebookRequest,
null,
HttpMethod.GET,
new Request.Callback() {
public void onCompleted(Response response) {
FacebookRequestError error = response.getError();
if (error != null && response != null) {
Log.e(TAG, error.toString());
} else {
graphObject = response.getGraphObject();
}
}
}
).executeAndWait();
//
// Process Facebook response
//
//
if (graphObject == null) {
return false;
}
int numberOfRecords = 0;
JSONArray dataArray = (JSONArray) graphObject.getProperty("data");
if (dataArray.length() > 0) {
// Ensure the user has at least one friend ...
for (int i = 0; i < dataArray.length(); i++) {
JSONObject jsonObject = dataArray.optJSONObject(i);
FacebookFriend facebookFriend = new FacebookFriend(jsonObject, pickType[0]);
if (facebookFriend.isValid()) {
numberOfRecords++;
myList.add(facebookFriend);
}
}
}
// Make sure there are records to process
if (numberOfRecords > 0){
return true;
} else {
return false;
}
}
#Override
protected void onProgressUpdate(Boolean... booleans) {
// No need to update this, wait until the whole thread finishes.
}
#Override
protected void onPostExecute(Boolean result) {
if (result) {
/*
User the array "myList" to create the adapter which will control showing items in the list.
*/
} else {
Log.i(TAG, "Facebook Thread unable to Get/Parse friend data. Type = " + pickType);
}
}
}
The FacebookFriend class I created
public class FacebookFriend {
String facebookId;
String name;
String pictureUrl;
boolean invitable;
boolean available;
boolean isValid;
public enum Type {AVAILABLE, INVITABLE};
public FacebookFriend(JSONObject jsonObject, Type type) {
//
//Parse the Facebook Data from the JSON object.
//
try {
if (type == Type.INVITABLE) {
//parse /me/invitable_friend
this.facebookId = jsonObject.getString("id");
this.name = jsonObject.getString("name");
// Handle the picture data.
JSONObject pictureJsonObject = jsonObject.getJSONObject("picture").getJSONObject("data");
boolean isSilhouette = pictureJsonObject.getBoolean("is_silhouette");
if (!isSilhouette) {
this.pictureUrl = pictureJsonObject.getString("url");
} else {
this.pictureUrl = "";
}
this.invitable = true;
} else {
// Parse /me/friends
this.facebookId = jsonObject.getString("id");
this.name = jsonObject.getString("name");
this.available = true;
this.pictureUrl = "";
}
isValid = true;
} catch (JSONException e) {
Log.w("#", "Warnings - unable to process Facebook JSON: " + e.getLocalizedMessage());
}
}
}

Facebook has revised their policies now. You can’t get the whole friendlist anyway if your app does not have a Canvas implementation and if your app is not a game. Of course there’s also taggable_friends, but that one is for tagging only.
You will be able to pull the list of friends who have authorised the app only.
The apps that are using Graph API 1.0 will be working till April 30th, 2015 and after that it will be deprecated.
See the following to get more details on this:
User Friends
Facebook Application Development FAQ

In Swift 4.2 and Xcode 10.1:
If you want to get the friends list from Facebook, you need to submit your app for review in Facebook. See some of the Login Permissions:
Login Permissions
Here are the two steps:
1) First your app status is must be in Live
2) Get required permissions form Facebook.
1) Enable our app status live:
Go to the apps page and select your app
https://developers.facebook.com/apps/
Select status in the top right in Dashboard.
Submit privacy policy URL
Select category
Now our app is in Live status.
One step is completed.
2) Submit our app for review:
First send required requests.
Example: user_friends, user_videos, user_posts, etc.
Second, go to the Current Request page
Example: user_events
Submit all details
Like this submit for all requests (user_friends , user_events, user_videos, user_posts, etc.).
Finally submit your app for review.
If your review is accepted from Facebook's side, you are now eligible to read contacts, etc.

As Simon mentioned, this is not possible in the new Facebook API. Pure technically speaking you can do it via browser automation.
this is against Facebook policy, so depending on the country where you live, this may not be legal
you'll have to use your credentials / ask user for credentials and possibly store them (storing passwords even symmetrically encrypted is not a good idea)
when Facebook changes their API, you'll have to update the browser automation code as well (if you can't force updates of your application, you should put browser automation piece out as a webservice)
this is bypassing the OAuth concept
on the other hand, my feeling is that I'm owning my data including the list of my friends and Facebook shouldn't restrict me from accessing those via the API
Sample implementation using WatiN:
class FacebookUser
{
public string Name { get; set; }
public long Id { get; set; }
}
public IList<FacebookUser> GetFacebookFriends(string email, string password, int? maxTimeoutInMilliseconds)
{
var users = new List<FacebookUser>();
Settings.Instance.MakeNewIeInstanceVisible = false;
using (var browser = new IE("https://www.facebook.com"))
{
try
{
browser.TextField(Find.ByName("email")).Value = email;
browser.TextField(Find.ByName("pass")).Value = password;
browser.Form(Find.ById("login_form")).Submit();
browser.WaitForComplete();
}
catch (ElementNotFoundException)
{
// We're already logged in
}
browser.GoTo("https://www.facebook.com/friends");
var watch = new Stopwatch();
watch.Start();
Link previousLastLink = null;
while (maxTimeoutInMilliseconds.HasValue && watch.Elapsed.TotalMilliseconds < maxTimeoutInMilliseconds.Value)
{
var lastLink = browser.Links.Where(l => l.GetAttributeValue("data-hovercard") != null
&& l.GetAttributeValue("data-hovercard").Contains("user.php")
&& l.Text != null
).LastOrDefault();
if (lastLink == null || previousLastLink == lastLink)
{
break;
}
var ieElement = lastLink.NativeElement as IEElement;
if (ieElement != null)
{
var htmlElement = ieElement.AsHtmlElement;
htmlElement.scrollIntoView();
browser.WaitForComplete();
}
previousLastLink = lastLink;
}
var links = browser.Links.Where(l => l.GetAttributeValue("data-hovercard") != null
&& l.GetAttributeValue("data-hovercard").Contains("user.php")
&& l.Text != null
).ToList();
var idRegex = new Regex("id=(?<id>([0-9]+))");
foreach (var link in links)
{
string hovercard = link.GetAttributeValue("data-hovercard");
var match = idRegex.Match(hovercard);
long id = 0;
if (match.Success)
{
id = long.Parse(match.Groups["id"].Value);
}
users.Add(new FacebookUser
{
Name = link.Text,
Id = id
});
}
}
return users;
}
Prototype with implementation of this approach (using C#/WatiN) see https://github.com/svejdo1/ShadowApi. It is also allowing dynamic update of Facebook connector that is retrieving a list of your contacts.

Try /me/taggable_friends?limit=5000 using your JavaScript code
Or
try the Graph API:
https://graph.facebook.com/v2.3/user_id_here/taggable_friends?access_token=

If you are still struggling with this issue on a development mode.
Follow the same process as mentioned below:
create a test app of your main app,
create test users, automatically install app for test users and assign them 'user_friend' permission.
Add your test users as a friend with each other.
I followed the same process after going through alot of research and finally it worked.

In the Facebook SDK Graph API v2.0 or above, you must request the user_friends permission from each user in the time of Facebook login since user_friends is no longer included by default in every login; we have to add that.
Each user must grant the user_friends permission in order to appear in the response to /me/friends.
let fbLoginManager : FBSDKLoginManager = FBSDKLoginManager()
fbLoginManager.loginBehavior = FBSDKLoginBehavior.web
fbLoginManager.logIn(withReadPermissions: ["email","user_friends","public_profile"], from: self) { (result, error) in
if (error == nil) {
let fbloginresult : FBSDKLoginManagerLoginResult = result!
if fbloginresult.grantedPermissions != nil {
if (fbloginresult.grantedPermissions.contains("email")) {
// Do the stuff
}
else {
}
}
else {
}
}
}
So at the time of Facebook login, it prompts with a screen which contain all the permissions:
If the user presses the Continue button, the permissions will be set. When you access the friends list using Graph API, your friends who logged into the application as above will be listed
if ((FBSDKAccessToken.current()) != nil) {
FBSDKGraphRequest(graphPath: "/me/friends", parameters: ["fields" : "id,name"]).start(completionHandler: { (connection, result, error) -> Void in
if (error == nil) {
print(result!)
}
})
}
The output will contain the users who granted the user_friends permission at the time of login to your application through Facebook.
{
data = (
{
id = xxxxxxxxxx;
name = "xxxxxxxx";
}
);
paging = {
cursors = {
after = xxxxxx;
before = xxxxxxx;
};
};
summary = {
"total_count" = 8;
};
}

GET followers/list using FABRIC ANDROID SDK?

I need to get followers list of currently logged in user. I saw this but how to make the URL request and manage the result. Can I make normal network request by using volley or something ? Any help is appreciated.

I was also facing the same problem. Then I found java wrapper for this functionality Twitter4j. It is very easy to use. Following are the lines of code which I use for storing followers ids in a list.
List<Long> ids = new ArrayList<Long>();
twitter4j.Twitter twitter1;
ConfigurationBuilder config =
new ConfigurationBuilder()
.setOAuthConsumerKey(custkey)
.setOAuthConsumerSecret(custsecret)
.setOAuthAccessToken(accesstoken)
.setOAuthAccessTokenSecret(accesssecret);
twitter1 = new TwitterFactory(config.build()).getInstance();
while(cursor != 0 && length > 0) {
System.out.println("in loop");
try {
IDs temp = twitter1.friendsFollowers().getFollowersIDs(username, cursor);
cursor = temp.getNextCursor();
tempids = temp.getIDs();
length = temp.getIDs().length;
} catch (twitter4j.TwitterException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
for (long id : tempids) {
ids.add(id);
}
}`
I also asked the same question in Twitter community. You can check it out at
https://twittercommunity.com/t/get-followers-of-a-user-using-twitter-android-sdk/37740

How to track Facebook appRequest that send from Unity app?

I want to track invites that send from "player_1" to other players to count them and as result give "player_1" some reward. Like in PVZ2.
Ok, Facebook have SDK for Unity3d. Here is API to call App request dialog that allow to invite player:
public static void AppRequest(
string message,
string[] to = null,
string filters = "",
string[] excludeIds = null,
int? maxRecipients = null,
string data = "",
string title = "",
FacebookDelegate callback = null)
Facebook doc says something about redirect_url that could be used to track user's that accept indentations:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/dialogs/requests/
But Unity plugin doesn't have this param.
Also doc says that follow:
Requests are only available for games on Facebook.com or iOS and
Android apps. Accepting a request from a game will direct the person
to the Canvas Page URL of the app that sent the Request. For native
mobile apps, accepting the request will direct the person to the app
on their device if installed or to the appropriate location (Apple App
Store or Google Play) to download the app otherwise.
Game is going to work on mobile devices only. Therefore we don't need to make Facebook Canvas application. Should I implement this Canvas URL script on our website anyway?
Where is the correct place to inject code (server side script) to track Facebook app requests?
UPDATE:
Thanks to Bhavesh Vadalia for answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/21597185/425707
I've decided to not handle friends requests in Canvas App.
Here is solution for Facebook SDK 5.0.3:
// Quesry string: "/fql?q=SELECT uid, name, is_app_user, pic_square FROM user WHERE uid IN (SELECT uid2 FROM friend WHERE uid1 = me()) AND is_app_user = 1";
string q = "/fql?q=SELECT+uid,+name,+is_app_user,+pic_square+FROM+user+WHERE+uid+IN+(SELECT+uid2+FROM+friend+WHERE+uid1+=+me())+AND+is_app_user+=+1";
FB.API(q, Facebook.HttpMethod.GET, friendsResult =>
{
if (friendsResult.Error != null)
{
FbDebug.Error(friendsResult.Error);
}
else
{
FbDebug.Log(friendsResult.Text);
}
});

Here is implement for track code using facebook graph api implement in for my application. hope it also help to you.
I am using facebook 3.6 sdk
private void requestMyAppFacebookFriends(Session session) {
Request friendsRequest = createRequest(session);
friendsRequest.setCallback(new Request.Callback() {
#Override
public void onCompleted(Response response) {
List<GraphUser> friends = getResults(response);
Log.e("RESULT : ", "#"+friends.size());
for(int i =0;i<friends.size(); i++){
GraphUser user = friends.get(i);
boolean installed = false;
if(user.getProperty("installed") != null){
installed = (Boolean) user.getProperty("installed");
}
if(installed){
Log.e("USER NAME", "#"+friends.get(i).getId());
}
}
// TODO: your code here
}
});
friendsRequest.executeAsync();
}
private Request createRequest(Session session) {
Request request = Request.newGraphPathRequest(session, "me/friends", null);
Set<String> fields = new HashSet<String>();
String[] requiredFields = new String[] { "id", "name", "picture","installed" };
fields.addAll(Arrays.asList(requiredFields));
Bundle parameters = request.getParameters();
parameters.putString("fields", TextUtils.join(",", fields));
request.setParameters(parameters);
return request;
}

How to remove account in AccountManager in Android

I am trying to remove a custom account in AccountManager.
This is my code :
final Handler handler = new Handler ();
AccountManagerCallback<Boolean> callback = new AccountManagerCallback<Boolean>()
{
#Override
public void run(AccountManagerFuture<Boolean> arg0)
{
String test = "test";
}
};
AccountManagerFuture<Boolean> bool = am.removeAccount(account, callback, handler);
Permissions I'm using :
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"></uses-permission>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"></uses-permission>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.MANAGE_ACCOUNTS"></uses-permission>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS"></uses-permission>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.AUTHENTICATE_ACCOUNTS"></uses-permission>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_SYNC_SETTINGS"></uses-permission>
The account is never removed and the callback never called, any idea ? No trace in logs

Try this it will work
// Global Variables
public static final String AUTHORITY = "com.example.package";
public static final String ACCOUNT_TYPE = "com.example.package";
public static final String ACCOUNT = "my_custom_account_name";
// Account Manager definition
AccountManager accountManager = (AccountManager) this.getSystemService(ACCOUNT_SERVICE);
// loop through all accounts to remove them
Account[] accounts = accountManager.getAccounts();
for (int index = 0; index < accounts.length; index++) {
if (accounts[index].type.intern() == AUTHORITY)
accountManager.removeAccount(accounts[index], null, null);
}
requires
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_SYNC_SETTINGS" />

You need to override the following method in the Authenticator class from AbstractAccountAuthenticator.
public Bundle getAccountRemovalAllowed(AccountAuthenticatorResponse response, Account account) {
Bundle result = new Bundle();
boolean allowed = true; // or whatever logic you want here
result.putBoolean(AccountManager.KEY_BOOLEAN_RESULT, allowed);
return result;
}

Had the same problem
if (VERSION.SDK_INT < VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP_MR1) {
accountManager.removeAccount(account, {}, AContext.app.mainHandler)
} else {
accountManager.removeAccountExplicitly(account)
}
For API 22 and higher works perfectly, but on API 19 didn't work at all.
Finally found the problem in my implementation of AbstractAccountAuthenticator:
override fun getAccountRemovalAllowed(response: AccountAuthenticatorResponse?, account: Account?): Bundle {
AccountHelper.removeAccount()
return super.getAccountRemovalAllowed(response, account)
}
It became to work after deleting "AccountHelper.removeAccount()"
I don't know - maybe it'll help

You have to call 2 below methods before removeAccount method and the system will allow you to remove the account in account manager.
clearPassword
invalidateAuthToken
Based on the description on the removeAccount method:
"The authenticator may have its own policies preventing account deletion, in which case the account will not be deleted."
Have fun.

This Code works like a charm to me.
You will need the WRITE_SYNC_SETTINGS,also need to add android.permission.MANAGE_ACCOUNTS works for me with same code pattern. permission. So if you use AccountManager and Account correctly you will manage to remove the account successfully.
I had some issues using the account manager in the Android Simulator, so try to test on a real device...
AccountManager accMgr = AccountManager.get(this);
final Account account = new Account(username, accountType);
removeCaxtonAccount(accMgr, account);
public void removeCaxtonAccount(AccountManager accMgr, Account account){
accMgr.removeAccount(account, null,null);
}

Here is my solution. The previous solutions I found don't explicitly wait for the removal of accounts to finish so they randomly fail.
final AccountManager accountManager = AccountManager.get(getContext());
final String accountType = AuthenticatorService.ACCOUNT_TYPE;
final Account[] availableAccounts = accountManager.getAccountsByType(accountType);
for (final Account availableAccount : availableAccounts) {
final AccountManagerFuture<Boolean> booleanAccountManagerFuture = accountManager.removeAccount(availableAccount, null, null);
assertTrue("Impossible to delete existing account for this application", booleanAccountManagerFuture.getResult(1, TimeUnit.SECONDS));
}
Note: You still need the permissions mentioned before.

I my case for api before 22 adding Authenticator class helped. Just inspire yourself from this source https://www.programcreek.com/java-api-examples/?code=MLNO/airgram/airgram-master/TMessagesProj/src/main/java/ir/hamzad/telegram/ContactsController.java#
for api 22+ this works without Authenticator:
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP_MR1) {
Timber.e(String.valueOf(accountManager.removeAccountExplicitly(account)));
}

Android Google Api for SpreadSheet

I'm trying to figure out how to use Google Api for accessing/editing Google SpreadSheet.
I want to have a connection always with the same spreadsheet from many devices. I got examples using the AccountManager, but i should not use the user account. There is any good turorial?
Right now i've got the following..is that right?
AccountManager accountManager = AccountManager.get(this);
ArrayList googleAccounts = new ArrayList();
// Just for the example, I am using the first google account returned.
Account account = new Account("email#gmail.com", "com.google");
// "wise" = Google Spreadheets
AccountManagerFuture<Bundle> amf = accountManager.getAuthToken(account, "wise", null, this, null, null);
try {
Bundle authTokenBundle = amf.getResult();
String authToken = authTokenBundle.getString(AccountManager.KEY_AUTHTOKEN);
// do something with the token
//InputStream response = sgc.getFeedAsStream(feedUrl, authToken, null, "2.1");
}
catch (Exception e) {
// TODO: handle exception
}

Required permissions:
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCOUNT_MANAGER"/>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS"/>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.USE_CREDENTIALS"/>
Choose needed outh token type from the table:
http://code.google.com/intl/ja/apis/spreadsheets/faq_gdata.html#Authentication
Spreadsheets Data API wise
Code sample:
public class OuthTokenActivity extends Activity {
String tag = "DEBUG";
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
AccountManager mAccountManager = AccountManager.get(this);
for (Account account : mAccountManager.getAccountsByType("com.google")) {
mAccountManager.getAuthToken(account, "wise", savedInstanceState,
this, resultCallback, null);
}
}
AccountManagerCallback<Bundle> resultCallback = new AccountManagerCallback<Bundle>() {
public void run(AccountManagerFuture<Bundle> future) {
try {
Bundle result = future.getResult();
String token = (String) result.get(AccountManager.KEY_AUTHTOKEN);
String name = (String) result.get(AccountManager.KEY_ACCOUNT_NAME);
Log.d(tag, String.format("name: %s, token: %s", name, token));
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
};
}

There is an API released now, available for java script, which could be run in your app. And they show how to integrate this into an Android app in a video here.