searching friends using facebook graph api

Question

Does facebook have an api for searching a user's friend?

Tim

Solution 1

You can get the list of friends using the following API call:

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

and then search in the list for the person you are looking for.

Refer to more detailed documentation here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/api

Solution 2

You can search friend's name like this:

select uid, name, sex 
from user 
where uid in (SELECT uid2 FROM friend WHERE uid1 = me())
and (strpos(lower(name),'TheFriendName')>=0 OR strpos(name,'TheFriendName')>=0)

TheFriendName=Full name or part of the name

Example:

select uid, name, sex 
from user 
where uid in (SELECT uid2 FROM friend WHERE uid1 = me())
and (strpos(lower(name),'Jack')>=0 OR strpos(name,'Jack')>=0)

Comments

[Amit Battan]

can I apply filter in this API .. means I want search "AMIT" within my friends only. . . . . graph.facebook.com/search?q=Amit&type=user this API search user AMIT but it search publicly but I want to search within friend list only

[Raptor]

sidenote: FQL will soon be deprecated. Read documentation for more details.

[Ionut]

Agree with @AmitBattan, I didn't found anything in the Facebook docs to do that, which is weird. Well done Facebook, well done...