How to get user Interests?

Question

This is not a duplicate of How can I get the interests of my friend through facebook api?. user_interests permission (to access /me/interests) is useless (if not deprecated) Facebook feature that hardly ever returns any data.

Instead, I am referring to the data aggregated by Facebook at this page:

These are all user likes grouped into categories like "Music", "Books", "TV Shows", etc. Generally, user likes can be retrieved through /me/likes. However, the latter query returns a rather vivid array of categories.

Is there a way to get user likes categorised into the same generic categories like Facebook does?

Solution

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/user/:

The User object has the following connections:

books: The books listed on the user's profile.

games: Games the user has added to the Arts and Entertainment section of their profile.

movies: The movies listed on the user's profile.

music: The music listed on the user's profile.

television: The television listed on the user's profile.

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The fields favorite_athletes and favorite_teams are deprecated, though. Not sure, if there will be any replacement for these analog to the above connections – or if users are just supposed to normally “like” the fan pages of athletes/teams in the future.