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Q: 

search users by their email id on facebook using connect api

I need to search users in facebook by their email id's. I could not find anything relevant to this.

I have seen an application using facebook.users.getByEmail method but I am not able to find more about it.

Please suggest.

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> By search I meant if I have a users email id then I need to find uid of that user.

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email property accessed just after you get special permission to retrieve email. so it's impossible. more details here: http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Communicating_with_Users_via_Email

zerkms  2010-02-04 06:43:18
>> "By search I meant if I have a users email id then I need to find uid of that user."doesn't matter. you can get access to email property for any reason just after special permission.
zerkms  2010-02-04 07:55:21
@zerkms: Thanks for the reply.
Amit  2010-02-04 08:44:12
@zerkms: One question. Do you have any idea what facebook.users.getByEmail does ?
Amit  2010-02-04 08:44:53
i cannot find in facebook api method with such name :-( http://wiki.developers.facebook.com
zerkms  2010-02-04 12:27:41
I found reference for this method in forums http://forum.developers.facebook.com/viewtopic.php?id=44884
Amit  2010-02-04 16:23:09
read again that sentence "The method is:facebook.users.getByEmailWe have a specific use case for for this method and would to put this to Facebook."
zerkms  2010-02-04 21:46:21
I read again. Found a contradicting sentence "....like to contact someone about gaining access to a API method which is currently not public - but used by some other none Facebook companies."
Amit  2010-02-05 11:21:29
this is theirs proposal. this method exists only in their minds.
zerkms  2010-02-05 14:29:38

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