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Re: Facebook Graph API robots.txt

#21
post #9

so your name will be published out to the web? you can set the userid as parameter and you get Mark Zuckerbergs Profile here : http://graph.facebook.com/4 Then you can simple count up to infinite to get the other profiles. The API has a Usage limit and blocks after a while

also: http://graph.facebook.com/4/picture?type=large

Re: Facebook Graph API robots.txt

#22
post #15
post #9

so your name will be published out to the web? you can set the userid as parameter and you get Mark Zuckerbergs Profile here : http://graph.facebook.com/4 Then you can simple count up to infinite to get the other profiles. The API has a Usage limit and blocks after a while

Anyone knows why they are skipping IDs? Why didn't he pick id=1?

Winklevoss, Winklevoss, and Narendra? :)

Re: Facebook Graph API robots.txt

#25
post #10

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That is because the info that is available at http://graph.facebook.com/name is http://facebook.com/name . What part of your account are you trying to stop from being accessed? This makes no sense.

I set my profile to private. I turned off "Public Search Results" and "Facebook Search Results" is set to "Only Friends". If you're not logged in, my URL returns a 404: http://www.facebook.com/davetufts (or by ID: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=603069147 ) Not a huge deal, because the graph page only shows my name and ID, but they are publicly accessible: http://graph.facebook.com/davetufts or http://graph.fa…

Appending /picture?type=large to your graph page works, too. Uh, oh...

Re: Facebook Graph API robots.txt

#26
post #25

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I set my profile to private. I turned off "Public Search Results" and "Facebook Search Results" is set to "Only Friends". If you're not logged in, my URL returns a 404: http://www.facebook.com/davetufts (or by ID: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=603069147 ) Not a huge deal, because the graph page only shows my name and ID, but they are publicly accessible: http://graph.facebook.com/davetufts or http://graph.fa…

Appending /picture?type=large to your graph page works, too. Uh, oh...

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Re: Facebook Graph API robots.txt

#27
post #10

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That is because the info that is available at http://graph.facebook.com/name is http://facebook.com/name . What part of your account are you trying to stop from being accessed? This makes no sense.

I set my profile to private. I turned off "Public Search Results" and "Facebook Search Results" is set to "Only Friends". If you're not logged in, my URL returns a 404: http://www.facebook.com/davetufts (or by ID: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=603069147 ) Not a huge deal, because the graph page only shows my name and ID, but they are publicly accessible: http://graph.facebook.com/davetufts or http://graph.fa…

I can see the following as a logged-in facebook user, which is identical to what the graph api returns: http://imgur.com/8y8hf.png

I'm not seeing a discrepancy here?

Re: Facebook Graph API robots.txt

#28
post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I set my profile to private. I turned off "Public Search Results" and "Facebook Search Results" is set to "Only Friends". If you're not logged in, my URL returns a 404: http://www.facebook.com/davetufts (or by ID: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=603069147 ) Not a huge deal, because the graph page only shows my name and ID, but they are publicly accessible: http://graph.facebook.com/davetufts or http://graph.fa…

I can see the following as a logged-in facebook user, which is identical to what the graph api returns: http://imgur.com/8y8hf.png I'm not seeing a discrepancy here?

Like I said, the discrepancy is if you're NOT logged in.

Re: Facebook Graph API robots.txt

#29
post #18
post #10

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That is because the info that is available at http://graph.facebook.com/name is http://facebook.com/name . What part of your account are you trying to stop from being accessed? This makes no sense.

I don't like the fact that Facebook makes any of my data available and doesn't provide me options to make it private at will. I have my privacy settings turned all the way up for everything. Perhaps I, and others, simply would like to not have any of our data available in this manner.

I agree with you. As of now, your only option is to not use fb.
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