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I am trying to build an application which requires access to friend's feed posts. Is it possible to retrieve friend's wall posts using graph API? I checked out in the developer console and found no such funstionality. If possible can someone explain me how do i go about retrieving it?

Aarish Ramesh
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friend permissions are gone, and read_stream will not get approved by Facebook unless you are building an App for a platform without a native Facebook client. So there is no way to get access to friend walls - unless they authorize your App too. You can use user_posts for that.

You can read more about all the changes in the changelog: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/changelog

Facebook improved privacy for users, that´s why you can´t get any details of users who did not authorize your App.

andyrandy
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  • Thanks mate!! Is there any way around? Like using user_posts for web app to fetch the data? – Aarish Ramesh May 04 '15 at 17:24
  • Also the changelog states " The user_posts permission is automatically granted to anyone who previously had read_stream permission'. Can you please clarify on this part if possible? – Aarish Ramesh May 04 '15 at 17:25
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    there is no way around, you can ONLY get data from users who authorized your app. forget about that other part, read_stream will not get approved anyway. main point is: you can only get stuff that is happening on the wall of the authorized user. – andyrandy May 04 '15 at 17:39
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What you're asking is no longer supported by Facebook.

Read this article by one of the apps that were affected by so.

Sorry for not helping you more.

Artur Peniche
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  • thanks mate!! Actually I am building a web application, fbstart seems to be a mobile app accelerator program. Is there anything which you know that would suffice my requirement? – Aarish Ramesh May 04 '15 at 17:11
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    even WITH paying it is no longer supported. not sure where you got the idea that you could pay for it... – andyrandy May 04 '15 at 17:12
  • @luschn Oh!! Isn't there a way around? Because the very idea of my application revolves around this functionality of fetching my friend's facebook posts? – Aarish Ramesh May 04 '15 at 17:13
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    no, there is no way around. you are not supposed to get access to the wall of users who did not even authorize your app. – andyrandy May 04 '15 at 17:14
  • You seem to be correct i've no idea where i came with the paid option – Artur Peniche May 04 '15 at 17:41