Facebook Graph API Development with Flash

Time for action – getting a user's friends' names with AS3

We can start by getting a list of the IDs of a user's friends using the query above:

SELECT uid2
FROM friend
WHERE uid1 = «user's ID»

From earlier in the chapter, you know that we can call this API URL to get that list:

https://api.facebook.com/method/fql.query?access_token=«access_token»&format=json&query=SELECT%20page_id%20FROM%20page%20WHERE%20name%20=%20%22Facebook%22

Except, actually, that won't work. Just like when using the Graph API to access private information, you'll need to use an access token. (See Chapter 3 for a reminder of how to generate one of these.)

The correct API URL, then, is:

https://api.facebook.com/method/fql.query?access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN&format=json&query=SELECT%20page_id%20FROM%20page%20WHERE%20name%20=%20%22Facebook%22 ...