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You could get access to the full friends‘ user profile data in Graph API earlier than v2.0. If you had 500 friends, and granted friends_* OAuth permissions to a
by tobilg 9y ago
You could get access to the full friends‘ user profile data in Graph API earlier than v2.0. If you had 500 friends, and granted friends_* OAuth permissions to an app, the app had access to 501 user profiles.
- 616c 9y agoYou know where you read this?
- Xorlev 9y agoAt $dayjob-1 we relied on this to pull in your Facebook friends as contacts. Eventually FB limited the scope of this to friends who also had the app.
- tobilg 9y agoThis was post-v2.0 afaik.
- SubiculumCode 9y agoit was in TFA, btw
- IAmEveryone 9y agoI can confirm this, at least generally. Given access by a user, you had access to all the data the user could access, including the user’s friends’. There may have been exceptions, but, for example, friends’ likes were accessible.
- tobilg 9y agoIt’s gone from the FB Graph API docs, but the wayback machine still has it: https://web.archive.org/web/20130911191323/https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/login/extended-profile-properties/ https://web.archive.org/web/20130911191323/https://developer... I was possible to use the v1.0 API until Q2/2015 if I remember correctly (only if you had a v1.0 app though)