Open Graph built-in actions (like video.watches or news.reads) from my friends always empty

facebook, facebook-opengraph

Solution

I believe that's the correct action. Or I would want to believe so.

`user_actions.video` should grant `me/video.watches` only and `friends_actions.video` should grant `friend_id/video.watches`. A valid way to check would be to drop the `friends_actions.video` permission and try again with the user id you mentioned. But then why is there an end /me/friends/video.watches?

I don't think this endpoint should exist. It seems you can attach `video.watches` path to the end of some graph calls and it will silently fail with an empty an array as opposed to the pagination link you are given

{
  "data": [
  ], 
  "paging": {
    "next": "pagination_url"
  }
}

Try it yourself (in my case I tried it with music.listens)

- /me/photos/music.listens - Silently fails with call to /me/photos

- /me/likes/music.listens - Error 100

- /me/friends/music.listens - Silently fails with empty array

The rest behave as expected with invalid path components so a second guess would be some of these paths are bugs.

So, I don't think you are able to do, what you think you can do; grab all the activity of your friends all at once.

Problem

I am trying to get all `video.watches` from my friends with ``` https://graph.facebook.com/me/friends/video.watches?access_token=<valid_token> ``` My access token has both `user_actions.video` and `friends_actions.video` permissions. And I get empty result: ``` { "data": [] } ``` While a friend of mine with id 100000291284354 has watched videos with Vevo app and when I do ``` https://graph.facebook.com/100000291284354/video.watches?access_token=<valid_token> ``` I get these videos. The same with `news.reads` (I can get the news if I put the friend id, while get empty result when I request via `/me/friends/`) What can be wrong?

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