Getting all friends from facebook using restfb

Question

FacebookClient facebookClient = new DefaultFacebookClient(MY_ACCESS_TOKEN);
Connection<User> myFriends = facebookClient.fetchConnection("me/friends", User.class);

System.out.println("Count of my friends- " + myFriends.getData().size());

I am unable to get the friends data(name and other fields). It is displaying me count=0. I have given the permission for user_friends also. Infact in Graph API Explorer I tried graphAPI as me/friends It is displaying me

 {
      "data": [
      ],
      "summary": {
        "total_count": 463
      }
    }

Please help! Thanks in advance

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 02 '16 at 15:31

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The problem lies with your access token, as I have tried the code snippet you posted with my own access token and it prints the correct count of my friends.

You can debug your access token at the following link: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/access_token/

If this doesn't solve your problem please reply with the access token info that you get from debugging your access token at that link.

answered May 02 '16 at 15:31

alexoakley1

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thanks a lot it helped me a lot.. yes it was problem with my access token – anjali May 05 '16 at 05:54

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 03 '17 at 15:08

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myFriends.getTotalCount() would give you what you are looking for.

answered Feb 03 '17 at 15:08

Guy Sela

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 22 '18 at 08:38

You can only retrieve your friends who are using the same app. Otherwise, there is no way to get your friend name. Only friends total_count will be returned if you have a permission like this:

ScopeBuilder permissions = new ScopeBuilder();
permissions.addPermission(FacebookPermissions.USER_FRIENDS);
DefaultFacebookClient facebookClient = new DefaultFacebookClient(Version.VERSION_3_0);
String loginURL = facebookClient.getLoginDialogUrl(Constants.APP_ID, Constants.REDIRECT_URL, permissions);

Getting all friends from facebook using restfb

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