Question

I am trying to get my status from facebook using the javascript api. I have the following code:

    <div id="fb-root"></div>
<div id="data"></div>
<script src="http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">

(function(){
    FB.init({
        appId  : 'SOME ID',
        status : true, // check login status
        cookie : true, // enable cookies to allow the server to access the session
        xfbml  : true  // parse XFBML
    });
});
getData();


function getData(){
    var query = FB.Data.query('SELECT message FROM status WHERE uid=12345 LIMIT 10');


    query.wait(function(rows) {
        for(i=0;i<rows.length;i++){
            document.getElementById('data').innerHTML += 'Your status is ' + rows[i].message + '<br />';
        }
    });
}

</script>

When i try to get my name it works fine but the status is not working. Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong because the documentation for this is horrible. And yes I replaced the uid with a fake one and yes i put in my app id because like i said when i try to get my name it works fine. Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

you need the “read_stream” extended permission for the user. See here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/permissions

read_stream – Provides access to all
the posts in the user’s News Feed and
enables your application to perform
searches against the user’s News Feed

to request permissions, see here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/ particularly the part about requesting additional permissions:

In the examples above, the OAuth
process will return the user ID of the
active Facebook user, with which you
can fetch all the public parts of the
user’s profile via the Graph API. As
mentioned above, if you need to fetch
private data in the profile or if you
want to request permission to publish
to Facebook on a user’s behalf, you
will need to request extended
permissions.

To request permissions via OAuth, use
the scope argument in your
authorization request, and include a
comma separated list of all the
permissions you want to request. For
example, this authorization request
asks for access to the users’ photos
and videos and requests permission to
publish to the user’s stream on their
behalf:

https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/authorize?client_id=...&redirect_uri=http://www.example.com/callback&scope=user_photos,user_videos,stream_publish

To request additional extended
permissions, you can redirect to the
same authorization URL with all the
permissions you want to request. We
will automatically exclude those
permissions your application already
has for the current user and show a
dialog requesting only those
permissions that have not already been
granted.