Question

I’m working on an application which has an option to share certain items on Facebook. I know how to post them on user’s own wall, but i’d like to add an option to share it on friend’s wall too.

So, is there a way to have the app open phone contact list and pick a Facebook contact from there? Or for that matter what would be the wisest way to go for it? I can do the actual posting part, i just need a way to choose the friend’s ID.

Answer 1

You can get it using me… graph.facebook.com/me/friends?access_token=user_token assuming you have read_friendslist permission.

It will return something like:

{
  "data": [
  {
  "name": "Randy John.", 
  "id": "148dg50945"
  }, 
  {
  "name": "Shannon", 
  "id": "148740224611711"
  }, 
  {
  "name": "Someone ", 
  "id": "1000000"
  }, 
  {
  "name": "Mary Oconal", 
  "id": "100000318920"
 } 
} 

Once you get the ID, you then could do another call to get the friend info(graph.facebook.com/111111111?access_token=access_token)

{ 
  "id": "111111111", 
  "name": "Randy Johnson", 
  "first_name": "Randy", 
  "last_name": "Johnson", 
  "link": "http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=111111111", 
  "gender": "male", 
  "locale": "en_US", 
  "updated_time": "2011-08-17T17:22:19+0000", 
  "type": "user"
}

And of course you can get even more info about them by specifying more fields by appending fields after access_token(e.g. &fields=gender, education, etc)