Imagine the situation when I'm logged in facebook web application as userA. I know userB's nickname but he is not in my friendlist and I do not know his id. And, of course, he does not use my app.
- How can I get userB's id via a nickname?
- After that how can I get his wall posts?
Are there any specific permissions? May be there are manual pages I've missed?
In v1.0, the following was possible:
http://graph.facebook.com/v1.0/{user-name}
However, with v2.0 and v2.1, accessing users via IDs or Usernames not connected to your application is not possible. E.g., trying http://graph.facebook.com/v2.1/{user-name}
will throw an error:
{
"error": {
"message": "(#803) Cannot query users by their username (user-name)",
"type": "OAuthException",
"code": 803
}
}
Using the new PHP SDK (v4.0.x) you can do the following:
$response = (new FacebookRequest( $session, 'GET', '{user-name}', array(), 'v1.0' ))->execute()->getGraphObject()->asArray();