Send private messages to friends

Question

I need to get via Facebook connect user s info and send a private message to all of his friends  Is it possible

User · Answer

You cannot  Facebook API has read mailbox but no write mailbox extended permission  I m guessing this is done to prevent spammy apps from flooding friend s inboxes

User · Answer

There isn t any graph api for this  you need to use facebook xmpp chat api to send the message  good news is  I have made a php class which is too easy to use call a function and  message will be sent  its open source  check it out  facebook message api php the description says its a closed source but the it was made open source later  see the first comment  you can clone from github  It s a open source now

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For mobile application i did a solution by injecting javascript in the dialog view  There is a hidden web view in my ios app  That load the fb message send dialog api    then i inject some javascript to set the  to  and  message  field and submit the form   So that end user need not to do anything  Message sent to facebook inbox silently

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This is not possible now  but there is a work around  You can engage with the user in the public realm and ask them to send you private messages  but you can t send private messages back  only public ones  Of course  this all depends on if the user gives you the correct permissions   If you have given permission to access a person s friends  you can then theoretically post on that users wall with references to each one of the friends  asking them to publicly interact with you and then potentially privately message you   Get Friends   if authenticated https   graph facebook com me friends http   developers facebook com docs reference api user    Post in the Public Domain  http   developers facebook com docs reference api status    Get Messages sent to that user  if given permission   http   developers facebook com docs reference api message

User · Answer

No  this isn t possible   In order for you to send messages of any kind to a Facebook user  you need that user s permission to do so   If someone logs into your site with Facebook Connect  they are explicitly agreeing to share their Facebook data with your site  and you will then be able to send that person a message through the normal channels   You would also be able to fetch their friend list   However  you can not send messages to the friends

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You can use Facebook Chat API to send private messages  here is an example in Ruby using xmpp4r facebook gem   sender chat id    -  sender uid  chat facebook com  receiver chat id    -  receiver uid  chat facebook com  message body    message body  message subject    message subject   jabber message   Jabber  Message new receiver chat id  message body  jabber message subject   message subject  client   Jabber  Client new Jabber  JID new sender chat id   client connect client auth sasl Jabber  SASL  XFacebookPlatform new client     ENV fetch  FACEBOOK APP ID    facebook auth token     ENV fetch  FACEBOOK APP SECRET     nil  client send jabber message  client close

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Sending private message through api is now possible   Fire this event for sending message initialization of facebook object should be done before    to user id of facebook    function facebook send message to        FB ui           app id  xxxxxxxx           method   send           name   sdfds jj jjjsdj j j            link   https   apps facebook com xxxxxxxaxsa           to to          description  sdf sdf sfddsfdd s d  fsf s                Properties   app id Your application s identifier  Required  but automatically specified by most SDKs  redirect uri The URL to redirect to after the user clicks the Send or Cancel buttons on the dialog  Required  but automatically specified by most SDKs   display The display mode in which to render the dialog  This is automatically specified by most SDKs   to A user ID or username to which to send the message  Once the dialog comes up  the user can specify additional users  Facebook groups  and email addresses to which to send the message  Sending content to a Facebook group will post it to the group s wall   link  required  The link to send in the message   picture By default a picture will be taken from the link specified  The URL of a picture to include in the message  The picture will be shown next to the link   name  By default a title will be taken from the link specified  The name of the link  i e  the text to display that the user will click on  description By default a description will be taken from the link specified  Descriptive text to show below the link    See more here   VishwaKumar    For sending message with custom text  you have to add  message  parameter to FB ui  but I think this feature is deprecated  You can t pre-fill the message anymore  Though try once   FB ui     method   send     to   1234     message   A request especially for one person      data   tracking information for the user        See this link  http   fbdevwiki com wiki FB ui

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This thread says you can t do send private messages to a group of friends on facebook but I found this https   developers facebook com docs sharing reference send-dialog

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One workaround  though not a great one  is to use the new  facebook com email address   There are a few downsides to this   1  Not everyone  as of this posting  has the new messages application enabled in their account   2  Not everyone will have setup their  facebook com email in their messages app   3  Not everyone will choose their username  if they even have a facebook username  as their email address

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