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Re: Facebook Graph API robots.txt

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Post by knorby » Fri, Apr 23, 2010, 7:15 AM UTC

dasrecht wrote: 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

Much more than users apparently. It looks like everyting is thrown in here:

http://developers.facebook.com/docs/api

Re: Facebook Graph API robots.txt

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Post by veemjeem » Fri, Apr 23, 2010, 7:17 AM UTC

geuis wrote: post #7

I started playing with this new api today. My room mate and I spent an hour with various privacy settings and it does not appear there is any way to prevent your account from being accessed via this.

So you're able to get someone's facebook id and name? How useful is that? It seems about as useful as scraping web pages for random names & numbers. Might as well go to classmates.com and get a list of names there.

Re: Facebook Graph API robots.txt

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Post by thamer » Fri, Apr 23, 2010, 7:22 AM UTC

ryanjmo wrote: post #10

geuis wrote: post #7

I started playing with this new api today. My room mate and I spent an hour with various privacy settings and it does not appear there is any way to prevent your account from being accessed via this.

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.

My “graph” link is public, but my “public page” link is not. It might be because I don’t allow my profile to appear in public searches (non logged in), but still they made it visible to anyone in the graph API. I hope they add a privacy setting to change this.

Re: Facebook Graph API robots.txt

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Post by tfh » Fri, Apr 23, 2010, 7:31 AM UTC

vark wrote: post #3

also see: http://graph.facebook.com/default.aspx

and http://graph.facebook.com/default.html

Re: Facebook Graph API robots.txt

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Post by tfh » Fri, Apr 23, 2010, 7:57 AM UTC

dasrecht wrote: 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?

Re: Facebook Graph API robots.txt

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Post by oscardelben » Fri, Apr 23, 2010, 8:19 AM UTC

tfh wrote: post #15

dasrecht wrote: 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?

Perhaps those were just tests, and databases use incremental index but don't care if you delete a record.

Re: Facebook Graph API robots.txt

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Post by luckygerbils » Fri, Apr 23, 2010, 8:34 AM UTC

tfh wrote: post #14

vark wrote: post #3

also see: http://graph.facebook.com/default.aspx

and http://graph.facebook.com/default.html

And http://graph.facebook.com/.htaccess

Re: Facebook Graph API robots.txt

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Post by geuis » Fri, Apr 23, 2010, 8:36 AM UTC

ryanjmo wrote: post #10

geuis wrote: post #7

I started playing with this new api today. My room mate and I spent an hour with various privacy settings and it does not appear there is any way to prevent your account from being accessed via this.

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.

Re: Facebook Graph API robots.txt

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Post by davetufts » Fri, Apr 23, 2010, 8:38 AM UTC

ryanjmo wrote: post #10

geuis wrote: post #7

I started playing with this new api today. My room mate and I spent an hour with various privacy settings and it does not appear there is any way to prevent your account from being accessed via this.

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.facebook.com/603069147

Re: Facebook Graph API robots.txt

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Apr 23, 2010, 9:26 AM UTC

dasrecht wrote: 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

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