Question

I should have asked this in Facebook developer forum instead, but somehow I can’t register to the forum and the Facebook connect feature is not working at the time I’m writing this.

Anyway, I am still confused whether to use Graph API or the old REST API for my Facebook app.
Generally, this is what I want to achieve in my app:

1. Get profile picture and name of the user.
2. Get profile picture and name of the user’s friends who are also using my app.
3. Post into the user’s stream.
4. Allow users to invite their friends to use the application.

Can someone provide me an insight, which one is better for my application?

Answer 1

1. Get profile picture and name of the user.
   • http://graph.facebook.com/[uid] for the name and http://graph.facebook.com/[uid]/picture is an always up-to-date link to the current picture. Also, if you have an access_token, you can query http://graph.facebook.com/me for data on the current user, whoever that is.
2. Get profile picture and name of the user’s friends who are also using my app.
   • Not sure about how to get the specific friends only, maybe using FQL. However, note that you can get specific fields in the friends list (defaults to just name and id) by adding a fields parameter: .../friends?fields=id,name,picture
3. Post into the user’s stream.
   • Perform an HTTP POST to http://graph.facebook.com/%5Buid%5D/feed with a body parameter. (see http://developers.facebook.com/docs/api#publishing)
4. Allow users to invite their friends to use the application.
   • Sorry, not sure on this one…