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I'm trying to use Facebook API to get a list of people who checked into a place.

When typing in the search box in Facebook UI People who have been to THE_PLACE I get a long list containing many people, also people who are not my friends or friends of friends.

However, when I try to get the same information from the Facebook API, I get a list that only contains my friends who checked in. The FQL I used is the following (and also some other variants that didn't do better): SELECT author_uid FROM checkin WHERE target_id = THE_UID_OF_THE_PLACE

Am I doing something wrong or is this simply impossible to get via API the same information I can access through the UI?

davidrac
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  • did you figure it out ? – younes0 Oct 20 '13 at 17:25
  • It seems there's no simple way to do it. What I did instead is query according to coordinates (lat/long) – davidrac Oct 20 '13 at 17:49
  • do you mean that you can retrieve a list of people (friends or not) who have checked in some coordinates? do you mind giving the FQL ? – younes0 Oct 20 '13 at 17:52
  • This is the one I used. It retrieves posts that have location according to the filter: `/search?type=location&center=40.6700,-73.9400&distance=10000` – davidrac Oct 21 '13 at 10:51

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For privacy reasons, this is not possible at all. Also, FQL is deprecated. I have answered a similar question here: facebook graph API - get last checked users to place/page

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