Facebook extended permissions and interested_in property

Question

Which Facebook extended permissions makes the interested_in property of friends show up?

I've tried using friends_about_me, friends_relationship_details, and friends_relationships.

Which one is interested_in located? I'm using the Facebook SDK for iOS devices by the way.

If not enough are found, is it because I'm doing something wrong or is it the individual users' settings are set up that way? On the Facebook profile page it might show Interested In: Women while the Graph API query might not show it even with the above extended permissions granted.

Also when I try it with a query string ID?fields=interested_in, I get nulls, except for a couple.

Answer 1

The permission is "friends_relationship_details". The query you are showing above is actually correct. The one thing you are forgetting is that ultimately each use can set what data their friends can share about them. The default settings for which information friends can share does NOT allow friends to grant an application access to "interested in and looking for" and "religions and political views". So in short, your query is correct and you are getting all the information you are allowed to access.

Most Facebook users have not changed these settings, meaning that only the users that have explicitly allowed friends to share interested in information will show up in your query. This will be almost nobody which is why you only have one result in your query.

To see what I am talking about go to: http://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=privacy, click the "Edit your settings for using applications, games and websites." link, then click "Edit Settings" in the "Info accessible through your friends" section. Here you will see what permissions you allow your friends to share. There is no override for this. If you don't want the information shared, your friends can't force you to share it.

Sorry for the bad news.