I viewed the list of basic info permissions:
id
name
first_name
last_name
link
username
gender
locale
And at the extended there is this permission:
read_friendlists
part of the description of this permissions I see this:
"All user's friends are provided as part of basic data..."
So my question is: Is the users friends list part of the basic info permissions?
So my question is: Is the users friends list is or is not part of the basic info permissions?
A list of the user’s friends is part of basic permissions – and you can read them via /userid/friends
But “Friendlists” are something different – /userid/friendlists gives you the lists that the user’s friends are sorted into – some of them automatically created by Facebook, some possibly created by the user themselves. Those lists can have different types: close_friends, acquaintances, restricted,user_created, education, work, current_city or family.
And to read those friendlists, you need read_friendlists permission (the clue’s already in the name here).
Should all be quite obvious, if one takes a minute of time to look up the description of these user connections in the docs: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/user/
I believe this is now outdated, and that you may not look at the User's Friend List. This is unfortunate as I have been working on a project that was based off that idea.
