Is it possible to get a name from Facebook's API using an email?

Question

Like the title says, if I have e-mail address, can I retrieve the person's name using the Facebook API?

Answer 1

No, you can not retrieve a user's name from their email using the Facebook API.

Here is the table of values you can get for a facebook user: http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/User_%28FQL%29

All values that end in a * can be used to search for users. They are uid, name, and username.

However, if you get the user to manually authorize a facebook application that you create then you will be able to access the user's UID and you can use that to get their name.