Getting an Facebook user profile data with Javascript

Question

I need to get a facebook user uid , gender, photo and other profile data with Javascript.

I remember there was a method to get an user object with .id, .gender, .pho

Answer 1

Update: I added a little more detail to the answer:

First, you need to call FB.init and add your app id:

FB.init(
{
    appId  : APP_ID,
    status : true, // check login status
    cookie : true, // enable cookies to allow the server to access the session
    xfbml  : true  // parse XFBML
});

Next, check if there is a session open (i.e., the user is logged in)

if(FB.getSession() != null) {

And query the details by:

    FB.api('/me', function(response) 
    {
        alert ("Welcome " + response.name + ": Your UID is " + response.id); 
    });
}

You will also need to add

to the of your page, and load

The user profile picure can be accessed as http:/graph.facebook.com/USERID/picture/

Check the Graph API reference here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/user/

and the FB SDK reference here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/javascript/