Question

A question asked by a user, as represented in the Graph API.

The User object has a questions connection that returns questions posed by the current user.

To read a Question, you need the following permissions along with a valid access token:

• user_questions for questions asked by the current user.
• friends_questions for questions asked by friends of the current user.

To publish a 'question' you need:

• a valid access token
• publish_stream permission

With that granted, you can post a question on behalf of a user or a Page by issuing an HTTP POST request with the question content to:

https://graph.facebook.com/PROFILE_ID/questions

Example

Questions that the current user has asked:

https://graph.facebook.com/me/questions

Posting a question:

  curl -F 'access_token=...' \
       -F 'question=What is your favorite color?' \
       https://graph.facebook.com/me/questions

Fields

Name	Description	Permissions	Returns
id	Question ID	user_questions or friends_questions	string
from	User who asked the question	user_questions or friends_questions	Object containing id and name fields
question	Text of the question	user_questions or friends_questions	string
created_time	Time when question was created	user_questions or friends_questions	string containing ISO-8601 datetime
updated_time	Time when question was last updated	user_questions or friends_questions	string containing ISO-8601 datetime
options	The list of options available as answers to the question	user_questions or friends_questions	Object containing data[] array of options, as described in the options connection below

Connections

Name	Description	Permissions	Returns
options	The options available as answers to the question	user_questions or friends_questions	array of QuestionOption objects

options

Create

You can write to the QUESTIONS_ID/options connection to post a option to the question by issuing an HTTP POST request with the publish_stream permission and following parameters.

Parameter	Description	Type	Required
option	Description of option	string	no

If the write is successful, you get the following return.

Name	Description	Type
id	option ID	string

How-Tos

• How-To: Post a question to a Facebook Page