Question

I’m able to fetch my friends list using Facebook API (which requires me to log into my FB account) and I’m trying to show my friends list to other people visit my site.

I’ve tried using Twitter and its quite simple. https://api.twitter.com/1/friends/ids.json?cursor=-1&screen_name=codef0rmer returns my followers ids.

Is that possible using Facebook API, If yes, How to do that?

Answer 1

To access the /friends connection you need a valid access token for the current session. This means you can’t access this connection for other users

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/user/
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/friend/

This means that unless you get a users friends and store them in your database, you won’t be able to do this. ( Unless you use longer living access tokens (I say longer living as offline access is being deprecated)

Saying this, I’m not sure if you are allowed to store this information. I know friendslists aren’t allowed to be shown to other users so this is potentially dangerous territory on facebook TOS. The privacy policy is here https://developers.facebook.com/policy/ but I think this is something you may need to clarify with Facebook directly as it looks like a slightly grey area