How can I know if a node returned from Facebook Graph API is a profile or a page?

Question

I one part of a site I\'m programming, users can add facebook pages to a list manually by manually entering the username or id of each page. Once submitted, I connect to Faceboo

Answer 1

The type of an object usually comes under meta data and is not returned with a request unless you specify. In order to make a request for the type of the object, simple add ?metadata=1 at the end of your request. Something like:

http://graph.facebook.com/{object_id}?metadata=1

For example, the request:

http://graph.facebook.com/1013953243?metadata=1

will return the following data:

{
   "id": "1013953243",
   "name": "Nilo V\u00e9lez",
   "first_name": "Nilo",
   "last_name": "V\u00e9lez",
   "gender": "male",
   "locale": "en_US",
   "username": "nilovelez",
   "metadata": {
      "connections": XXX
       .
       .
       .
       .
       .
       .
      "type": "user"
   }
}