Facebook Get Friend Listing Error [duplicate]

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An active access token must be used to query information about the current user (2 answers)

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I trying to get user's facebook friend listing but when I try to use this code I getting error like this:

I trying via this link:

https://graph.facebook.com/me/friends?access_token=APP_ACCESS_TOKEN

{
   "error": {
      "message": "An active access token must be used to query information about the current user.",
      "type": "OAuthException",
      "code": 2500
   }
}

What I must to do fix this problem and get their friend list?

Thanks,

Answer 1

You have used the APP ACCESS TOKEN in your url which can not understand the meaning of /me.

You have to use the USER ACCESS TOKEN, that will be corresponding to the user in session and then you can use /me

If you want to use the App Access Token, you have to query like this:

https://graph.facebook.com/<user-id>/friends?access_token=APP_ACCESS_TOKEN 

and that too is only valid if the <user-id> has once authorized your app.

You can read more about Access Tokens here.

Answer 2

You can generate your Token here.

And use like this with Python:

import urllib.request
import json
url = 'https://graph.facebook.com/<user>/friends?access_token=APP_ACCESS_TOKEN'
resp = urllib.request.urlopen(url).read()
data = json.loads(resp.decode('utf-8'))
for friend in data['data']:
  print (friend['name'])