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I am not seeing the birthday in the graph api explorer, but can see it on the facebook web UI.

Assuming that I have requested and the user has accepted the appropriate permissions, if someone had their birthday privacy setting to "Only Me" and then changed it to "Public" how long should I expect to have to wait before that person's birthday shows up in the facebook-graph-api?

Paul D. Eden
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  • It does not matter what the privacy setting for birthday is on facebook.com – if you want to read it via API, you have to request `user_birthday` permission from them. – CBroe Apr 10 '13 at 13:50
  • Thanks CBroe. If that's the case, then why can I see the birthday on a friend's facebook page, but can't see it in when I look up their user in the facebook graph api explorer and I have granted the 'friends_birthday' permission to the api explorer app? Is it different when you are looking up friends? – Paul D. Eden Apr 10 '13 at 19:33
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    Your friends can choose which info they are willing to share with apps their friends are using. So that I give your app permission to read my friends’ birthdays does not mean that my friends are willing to give that info to the app I am using. https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=applications&section=friends_share – CBroe Apr 11 '13 at 09:37
  • That is exactly what I needed CBroe. It fixed my issue. Thank you! If you post a response referencing your comment I will accept it. – Paul D. Eden Apr 11 '13 at 13:57

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