facebook getting user id from graph api via taggable_friends

Question

In v1.0 API I was able to get friends with their facebook ID like this:

{
      "name": "Somename SomeSurname", 
      "id": "100007797060798"
 }

In the v2.0 I can use only taggable_friends to get this information, however `i must have missed something in the documentation, because the id I'm getting is like this (id is always different):

{
      "id": "AaKJ-QN8OlY3m-2DHeVnc5oQZFnx_V0ptUF8XFEstr3EcS1LltvAx0_xptve3DWc_vI1zP0s4RhVMOTk1EqDvzCHMkEqFRMIkuXtyXe5d9O1-Q", 
      "name": "Somename someSurname"
}

can someone point me where I can retrieve a real ID out of this?

Answer 1

There is no way to get to id via taggable_friends endpoint.

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/upgrading

Answer 2

/me/taggable_friends shows all friends in the list except for some. In one case, there are 326 friends in a profile but this only shows 317 and in another profile there are 194 friends in total but it only shows 182.

$flist = $fb->api('/me/taggable_friends?fields=name,id&limit=1000');

shows almost all friends in the list (despite the limit being too high) but leaves some of them in both cases. This might not work on the api explorer if your app is not approved and published but it will work for admins, testers and developers of your application.

You cannot decode this id because that would defeat the purpose of encoding it in the first place.

What I am also wondering is that whether it is possible to invite friends of a user to use the application?