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Facebook API does not provide friends list of people using our fb app, according to their developer faq page. But still, websites like nimble and the live example of socialauth are able to get the names of people on our friend list, even those who do not use their app. Please, can any one help me with how this work?

The read_friendlist permission gives only name of lists like 'close friends', 'aquaintance' etc. the user_friends permission gives only the list of people in our friendlist who use our app. What all api permssions do we need to get the full friend list?

I am trying to make an address book by importing contacts from google, facebook etc. using socialauth. Had success with google.

Shabin Muhammed
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  • Can be duplicate of [this question](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1897749/get-a-list-of-my-friends-friends)..? – ekostadinov Sep 30 '14 at 05:45
  • @ekostadinov, could be. but isn't this one more specific? I'd like to know how [nimble](https://www.nimble.com) and [socialauth live example](http://labs.3pillarglobal.com/socialauthdemo/importContacts.do) exported my facebook contacts as facebook api has stopped providing that service. – Shabin Muhammed Sep 30 '14 at 05:53

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Those websites are probably using older Apps with v1.0 - it will stop working for them after end of April 2015. You can only use v1.0 with an App created before end of April 2014.

andyrandy
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All 'friends_*' permissions have been removed from new version 2.1 You can use 'user_friends'

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/upgrading https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/changelog

For fetching app users user 'me/friends'

For more friends use 'me/taggable_friends' . Remember it will still not return whole friends.

In new facebook api version there is no way to fetch whole friend list at one time

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