Show HN: FbFriends, a JS dialog for picking FB friends

http://icambron.github.com/fbfriends/

by icambron • 14 years ago

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bavidar• 14 years ago

nice tool! Tried searching for friends by first name. Some dont work with just first name. Might need to do finagling with the regex.

icambron5• 14 years ago

It doesn't use a regex on the full name; FB provides separate fields and FbFriends searches those with a simple ORed string compare. So I'm surprised it's not working for you. I wonder if whatever FB uses to split the name up (i.e. their regex) isn't doing the right thing for your friends.

Or it could be a bug. I'll look into it.

hayksaakian• 14 years ago

What are some use cases?

icambron5• 14 years ago

The use case I built if for was that I wanted wedding guests responding to an invite to be able to identify their +1 as one of their FB friends.

But I suppose the most common use case would be inviting a list of friends to an application. I've seen a number of apps that have that, and as far as I know, they all roll their own dialog for doing that.

xauronx4• 14 years ago

Very nice! I might try to use it later today for a project I've had cooking for a while. What is the structure of the friends object after the dialog closes? What information do we get about them?

icambron5• 14 years ago

I need to document that better. Here's what's passed to the callback:

  [
    {
      id: anFbId,
      name: "Some guy",
      picture: "a url"
    },

    //other friends in the multi-selection case
  ]

If there's other kinds of information you'd want, I'd love some feedback on that.

xauronx4• 14 years ago

Does facebook expose their email address to you? I would like to use this to allow people to invite their friends to sign up for my service but I'm not sure how I would do that. I guess I could use facebook APIs to send them a message in lieu of email.

Show HN: FbFriends, a JS dialog for picking FB friends

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