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What's the application-context-id in Facebook Graph and how do I get it? – Facebook api

Application Context Friends Using App

I am trying to get friends of a user using the app with friends_using_app node.

However, I don’t know how get to the {application-context-id}. I am testing the endpoint using the Facebook Graph API explorer.

Also, I am using react-native-fbsk.

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    UPDATE: Ignore the screenshot, answer is in the comments.

    I think they’re talking about your App ID, which you can get by following these instructions. Here’s a screenshot.

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    https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.10/app.context/friends_using_app

    The request to get the application context for an app is

    GET /v2.10/{app-id}?fields=context

    There don’t currently seem to be any other contexts, so don’t need to ask for the sub-field friends_using_app specifically (although you could.)

    You’ll see it returns the list of friends directly, but also an id – that is the application context id you could use for the request GET /v2.10/{application-context-id}/friends_using_app – but since above request returns the data already, that seems to be unnecessary.

    You need to make this request with a user access token that includes user_friends permission, and it will only surface friends that have also granted user_friends permission to the app on their end. Therefor, the result is the same, as if we had simply requested /me/friends in the first place, so I actually don’t see the point of that application context … maybe it was added for “completeness” sake, because there’s other types of data that you would request in a similar way, I don’t know …

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