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Facebook Graph API: get link to users timeline doesn't work

I want to get the link to persons timeline who granted my app access.

So in the reference for the user (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.7/user) – i know it’s outdatet version but it should still work – I can see the “link” field which gives me “A link to the person’s Timeline” as the documentation says.

So when I am doing this, I get a link with the following format:

https://www.facebook.com/app_scoped_user_id/YXNpZADpBWEVoMWtvWEVtYTM3RFBkS3dYQVdWMUNwMVRJMzNWeko4aF83eFpQU05jcXByTXJwVmFoS293a1FMSWlKNFpibTNmbFpGa04wOUh5bmlWc3ZAKV3ZAWeEt2MEFBYlljb2JWNHRMTDRSY1FybFNyNDNpU3cZD/
(it’s a really long URL which is generated by facebook)

So far so good. But when I click on this URL which facebook gives me, I always get a Facebook Page with the content “Sorry, this content isn’t available right now” (as you can see when you click on the link above).

I don’t know what the problem is. Since a facebook profile isn’t callable with the user-id I have this problem.

Does anybody know how to fix it and get a working link to the users timeline?

Thanks!

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    You need to ask for the new user_link permission now first, to be able to get a working link that will lead to a persons timeline.

    https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/permissions/#reference-user_link

    (The returned URLs seem to contain a cryptic token rather than an actual user id, so you should not store them for long-term usage, they will likely expire over time.)

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    From May 2018 developers should use user_link to get user profile link, but for using this field App should pass review and person grant you the new user_link permission.

    For more info see:

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