Facebook Python API friends paging next returns empty array

Question

I was just messing up with the Facebook python API.

I was trying to list all of my friends.

Here's the code :

friends = graph.get_connections("me","friends")

while(friends['data']):
   for friend in friends['data']:
        allfriends.append(friend['name'])
   try:
        friends=requests.get(friends['paging']['next']).json()
   except KeyError:
       print "Key Error"

print allfriends

This code just lists couple of my friends. When I try to make a request to the url in [paging][next], it simply returns an empty array.

I am unable to understand, as to where am I going wrong? The next url should retrieve the next set of names from the friendlist I belive.

Kindly help.

Thank You

Answer 1

You may want to try the following:

friends = graph.get_connections("me","friends")

while(friends['data']):
    try:
        for friend in friends['data']:
            allfriends.append(friend['name'])
        friends=requests.get(friends['paging']['next']).json()
    except KeyError:
       print "Key Error"
print allfriends

This is a better way of getting the correct data through Facebook Graph.

Answer 2

https://graph.facebook.com/v2.2/me/friends

The above url will only only return any friends who have used (via Facebook Login) the app making the request. Source