how to retrieve facebook friends list in react native app

Question

I'm trying to retrieve all user's friends and render them in a list view using facebook graph request.

const infoRequest = new GraphRequest( '/me', { parameters: { fields: { string: 'email, name, first_name, middle_name, last_name, picture.type(large), cover, birthday, location, friends' } } }, this._responseInfoCallback );

What is the response you are getting from the call? Are you getting any error? if any, please tell — Akshay Rao, Sep 17 '17 at 16:36
I am getting name, email etc, when i console log, but when i console.log friends i get undefined error. I didn't find any means to check whether friends list is availabe — Anil Hitang, Sep 17 '17 at 17:01

Akshay Rao · Answer 1 · 2017-09-17T18:15:28.047

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Facebook doesn't allow you to access your full friends list anymore since API 2.0, just those who also use your app. https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.2/user/friends.

For further reference you can also check the post Facebook Graph Api v2.0+ - /me/friends returns empty, or only friends who also use my app

If you still have any queries please let me know. :)

EDIT

You can get the list of friends of the user which are not using this app with the api call given below:-

https://graph.facebook.com/' + facebookUserId + '/invitable_friends?access_token=' + userToken

and then inside the callback of the above api call you can make a new api call and get the list of users friends which are using the app with the call given below:-

https://graph.facebook.com/' + facebookUserId + '/friends?access_token=' + userToken

and then you can concat the result of both the api calls and get the list of all the friends of the user as below:-

let allFriends = firstApiResponseArray.concat(SecondApiResponseArray)

Now allFriends will give the list of all the friends of the user. I hope this is what you are looking for :)

edited Sep 17 '17 at 18:15

answered Sep 17 '17 at 17:24

Akshay Rao

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ok thanks let me find out my mistake then!! – Anil Hitang Sep 17 '17 at 17:41
If you are using an app then you can get all the friends who are using your app and the one who are not using your app. – Akshay Rao Sep 17 '17 at 17:56
In my app, I want to let users login with their facebook and as soon as they login, I want to populate like (users list of friends, choose a random friend....). – Anil Hitang Sep 17 '17 at 18:07
@AnilHitang I have edited the answer please check. This is what you are looking for. I just checked this and it will give you the desired output. – Akshay Rao Sep 17 '17 at 18:16
I am using GraphRequest from facebook react native sdk – Anil Hitang Sep 17 '17 at 18:42
Yeah i know but this is just a simple fetch call that you can make from anywhere in the app like ====>>>> fetch('https://graph.facebook.com/facebookUserId/invitable_friends?access_token=userToken).then(()=>{}).catch(_=>{}) – Akshay Rao Sep 17 '17 at 18:54
ok I will try thanks!! – Anil Hitang Sep 17 '17 at 19:33
I have one more question..how can I get the facebookUserId ? – Anil Hitang Sep 18 '17 at 14:56
This is just the "facebookId" which you get in response from your "/me", that is your facebookUserId – Akshay Rao Sep 21 '17 at 06:17
thank it worked but, will it display others friends when others login into my app. – Anil Hitang Sep 21 '17 at 09:14
No, it will only display your friends which are using your app and which are not using your app both. But only list of your friends. – Akshay Rao Sep 21 '17 at 09:52
@AnilHitang is anything else you need to know ? i hope this is working fine :) – Akshay Rao Sep 21 '17 at 10:55
why taggable_friends worked instead of invitable_friends – Anil Hitang Sep 23 '17 at 06:54
Sadly, invitable_friends is deprecated as of April 4th 2018. https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/user/invitable_friends/ – AleksG May 12 '18 at 20:32
Hey @AkshayRao, I am trying to fetch friends list, getting empty data. I am in development mode for now. Can we get friends list in development mode or we need to submit the App for review. – Shivam Tiwari Jan 14 '20 at 06:26

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