sending a private message to your friends via Facebook IOS SDK

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I saw your post about sending messages to your Facebook friends via the IOS Facebook sdk,

I was wondering if there is a way to send a private message as well to these friends.

If not, is sending messages to your Facebook friends still supported from your previous post at:

iOS Development: How can I get a Facebook wall post to show in the friend's news feed?

If so let me know, thank you in advance

Absolutely impossible from Jan 2013, completely banned by Facebook https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2012/10/10/growing-quality-apps-with-open-graph/ You can only **send an email** (ie, private message) as explained by KLEW below. — Fattie, Oct 23 '13 at 10:58

score 12 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 06 '12 at 03:37

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It is possible to send a private message via facebook- just not with the SDK. You can get the user's 'username' (ie. http://www.facebook.com/username) and you can send them an email via your app to 'username@facebook.com'.

Shapow!

Major bonus: attach a file and it will be included in the facebook message.

One caveat: the email will not reach the recipient's message inbox unless the sender's email address is affiliated with a valid facebook user account. I would imagine this is in place to thwart spam.

answered Aug 06 '12 at 03:37

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Hoiw can I get the user's username? – Codesen Nov 08 '12 at 05:44
Graph API Provide user name. Thanks KLEW for now it is working :) +1 – Mangesh Nov 23 '12 at 10:40
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Note - this now goes to the "Other" section of a user's messages inbox and does not send them a notification. At this point it's pretty much useless. – Kyle Clegg Apr 04 '13 at 23:32
If you are sending to one of your facebook friends, it won't go to the "Other" section, but rather, your main inbox. – KLEW May 18 '13 at 10:39
@Maggesh how to get friend username please help – Bhavesh Nayi Aug 07 '13 at 05:20
@KLEW i want to send text to fb user but users don't have username of fb account in my app. can i send text to fb user account? – Jignesh B Jul 16 '14 at 12:26

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 09 '12 at 19:27

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No, it is not possible to send private messages using the Graph API.

Yes, it is still possible to post to a friend's wall. I just checked it out just now using the graph API Explorer tool: http://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer. I used /friendId/feed with an HTTP post of "message" = "testing" and my friend confirmed they saw it on their stream.

answered Feb 09 '12 at 19:27

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In fact, it is now not possible - it was **deprecated by Facebook January, 2013**: https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2012/10/10/growing-quality-apps-with-open-graph/ – Fattie Oct 21 '13 at 15:24

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Jun 25 '19 at 05:33

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let messageDialouge = MessageDialog.init(content: <ShareContent>, delegate: nil)
   if messageDialouge.canShow {
        messageDialouge.show()
    }

And do add fb-messenger-share-api inside the LSApplicationQueriesSchemes in info.plist

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answered Jun 25 '19 at 04:31

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