Facebook friends email FQL

Question

I have this FQL:

$femail = $facebook->api(array( 
\'method\' => \'fql.query\', 
\'locale\' => \'en_US\',
\'query\' => 
\'SELECT email 
FROM user          


        

Answer 1

In general, you CAN'T get the email address of your friends (source):

User permission     Friends permission
email             not available

BUT but since your friend has authorized your application, you can try the following in the FQL console:

SELECT email FROM user WHERE uid=FRIEND_ID

What I suspect the problem could be is that you need the "friend's" access_token to actually get the email because I suppose you are logged-in as your user when trying your query. So you need to grant the offline_access permission and then use it with the query.

But before doing the above, I would try it with an application access_token.

P.S: the sub-query is not needed if you know the friend id.

Answer 2

You can't get email addresses of friends. Each account must opt-in to sharing their email address with the application. Friends can't opt other friends in, which is a good thing.

Also, as @Barkermn01 mentioned, drop the AND uid = '.$friend_id.'