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friend

API Reference › FQL › friend

Description

An FQL table that can be used to return a list of a user's friends or to show whether two users are friends.

Columns

NameDescription

uid1

numeric string

The user ID of the first user in a particular friendship link.

uid2

numeric string

The user ID of the second user in a particular friendship link.

Examples

  • SELECT ... FROM friend WHERE uid1 = A
  • SELECT ... FROM friend WHERE uid2 = A
Note: Additional filters on other columns can be specified but they may make the query less efficient.

Permissions

To read the friend table you need

  • any valid access_token to retrieve friends of the current session user

This is the only user that this table can be queried for, the friends of friends cannot be retrieved.

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