how send message facebook friend through graph api using Accessstoken

Question

Can anyone help me to send message to facebook friends using graph api.

I tried

$response = $facebook->call_api("/me/feed", "post", "to=john","message=You have a Test message");

It's not working. I have the accesstoken of the user in my hand.only I am confused on sending process.

Cthrine

Do you have access token to john too ? The application need to have sufficient permission to be able to post anything to john's feed – Underdog

We are able to send answer by javascript. Check my answer. – Mcswain

Answer 1

You can't send messages using a Facebook application. You used to be able to do that, but the (predictable?) colossal amount of abuse led to the revocation of this ability.

Provided Alice, your user, has given you the necessary extended permissions, you have the following options:

• Post to Alice's wall on her behalf
• Send email to Alice
• Create events on behalf of Alice
  • invite Bob (not your user) to said events
• Issue a request/invitation on behalf of Alice to Bob
• Issue a request from the App to Alice

Psychopharmacology

Note that you can't send email to Bob from Alice (a message from Alice to Bob appears to be the OP's goal) – Suu

Well... one could play with the to field ;) But no, you can't. Hence it not being listed. – Psychopharmacology

Here's the link saying you can't get friends' email addresses: developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/login/email-permissions – Banns

'Issue a request/invitation on behalf of Alice to Bob' how can someone do this from backend? – Samira

Answer 2

You could open the Send Dialog in a popup.

 $parameters = array(
    'app_id' => $facebook->getAppId(),
    'to' => $facebookUserId,
    'link' => 'http://google.nl/',
    'redirect_uri' => 'http://my.app.url/callback'
 );
 $url = 'http://www.facebook.com/dialog/send?'.http_build_query($parameters);
 echo '<script type="text/javascript">window.open('.json_encode($url).', ...

For detailed options see: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/dialogs/send/

Fregoso

Thanks a lot bob. I was exactly looking for this. This even helps in pre-populating message fields so it's so easy to send an invitation link to my app using this dialog. – Unstick

Is there a way to bypass the send dialog popup and send the message directly via url? – Beforetime

could you have multiple userIds specified by app in the to field ? – Sodom

Answer 3

$attachment =  array(

    'access_token' => $access_token,
    'message'      => $msg,
    'name'         => $name,
    'link'         => $link,
    'description'  => $desc,
);

facebook->api('/'.$uesr_id.'/feed', 'POST', $attachment);

Tina

This will post message on $uesr_id's wall. – Mcswain

@SomnathMuluk This does not work anymore cause it is deprecated! – Sunless

@Lomse: Yes... It's deprecated on Feb 2013. – Mcswain

Answer 4

Technically you can do feed or cross feed post with privacy settings that allows only the feed owner to see the post but its not really sending a message to a person.

Burmese

Answer 5

You can use
HTTP POST with
PATH
https://graph.facebook.com/friend_facebook_id/feed
PARAMETER
MESSAGE = your message
ACCESS_TOKEN = your oauth2 access token

Ashcraft

links to documentation please? – Hummer

Answer 6

You can send to their facebook email. Facebook email is consisting profile nickname+'@facebook.com'. The email will goes to their facebook inbox message. Note that facebook email does not accept spoofing email. You will need whitelabel domain or use SendGrid.

Hillinck

I know this was answered sometime back. But how do i get my hands on a white label domain? Do you know which criteria fb uses to determine spoofing? – Homogenesis

This didn't work for me :( Unfortunate, considering how easy it is – Intended

Facebook has discontinued this since last February, it will forward to your real email instead. forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/02/25/… – Hillinck

Answer 7

You will need to integrate xmpp chat to reply a message and to write a new message.

Aphotic

Answer 8

I saw this post and noticed it was not right. Using the javascriot api you can post to a friend's feed like so: In this example "friendID" is the FB user ID of the friend. This api call requires the "publish_stream" permission.

FB.api('/'+friendID+'/feed', 'post', 
            {
                method: 'feed',
                message: messageText,
                name: 'write a title here',
                caption: 'Put a caption here.',
                description: 'Put your description here.',
                link: 'https://mcmap.net/q/386600/-how-send-message-facebook-friend-through-graph-api-using-accessstoken',
                picture: 'link to the preview thumbnail',                   
            },
             function(response) {
              if (!response || response.error) {
                //alert('Error occured');
              } else {
                //alert('Post ID: ' + response.id);
              }
        });

So this does it with the javasfcript SDK- the PHP method must be similar.

Namedropper

Answer 9

Instead of using the below code

    [facebook dialog:@"feed"
     andParams:params 
     andDelegate:self]; 

Use the following solution

[facebook requestWithGraphPath:@"me/feed"
   andParams:params
   andHttpMethod:@"POST"
   andDelegate:self];

Detoxify