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Facebook emails always return null through FQL and RestFB

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Facebook does not provide user, unless the user authorizes your application to access it. It's on account of security and user privacy, imagine how terrible it would be if everybody could have at her disposal all FB user's email addresses.

falomir 2010-05-14 19:09:36

But as they are "accepted" friends from both sides, I can see their email addresses through the site. Just seems strange that I can do it manually but not through the api.

Ilikerashers 2010-05-14 19:38:28

take a look at this http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Proxied_Email

falomir 2010-05-14 19:41:42

thanks but I think that refers to applications. I'm just using an access token generated by my profile. I can return a list of friends and their unique Ids, problem is everything else is blank.Example: User[about=null birthday=null education=[] email=null firstName=null id=12345678 interestedIn=[] lastName=null link=null metadata=null name=Tom Jones picture=null relationshipStatus=null religion=null timezone=null type=null updatedTime=null verified=null website=null work=[]]

Ilikerashers 2010-05-14 19:56:56

Ok, what I have done is get the unique IDs, and then use them within the FQL to fetch the info accordingly, for example, assuming that you have in a $IDS variable all the unique IDs glued together separated by commas 'SELECT uid, first_name, last_name, hometown_location, pic_square, activities, interests, work_history FROM user WHERE uid IN (' . $IDS . ') ORDER BY last_name';

falomir 2010-05-14 20:12:47

Still the sameString query = "SELECT uid, first_name, last_name, hometown_location, pic_square, activities, interests, work_history, email FROM user WHERE uid=" + currentUser.getId(); List<User> users = facebookClient.executeQuery(query, User.class);Thats what I'm running but getting a load of nulls. Will update if anything pops up.Thanks

Ilikerashers 2010-05-14 21:18:22

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I'm having this problem as well, have tried FQL, Facebook Graph etc, using OAuth, Session Key and Session Secrets but the only thing I get back is first name and last name. On occasion I do end up getting a proxied email which is useless since when you send to the proxied email, you get the message from "Test Console". Not sure if I am missing something or is Facebook just really tightening up data period? I've even relaxed all privacy settings.

Ooolalashop.com 2010-09-12 17:35:43

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Connection<User> myFriends = facebookClient.fetchConnection("me/friends", User.class ,Parameter.with("fields", "id, name, picture, email"));

You can specify any of the properties listed under http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/user

The only thing is that FB does not seam to return the friends email.. I'm using restFb 1.5.3

Paul Pinguin 2010-10-05 20:16:37

Yeah it looks like email just isn't available through the API. This is a bit strange since a few companies are scraping the site to get the data yet going about it the legal way doesn't work.

Ilikerashers 2010-10-06 13:25:21

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