how to retrieve friend's birthday using Facebook SDK in ios?

Question

I have implemented FBFriendPickerDelegate in my .h file and using the following delegate to retrieve information:

-(BOOL)friendPickerController:         


        

Answer 1

Here is all of the code you need in one happy place. I had to read tons of post to get this far. Its a straight copy and paste code. Rate it up if it helps.

In your *.m file

#import 

/******************
 FACEBOOK
 ******************/

- (IBAction) facebookActionBtn
{

    // Open session with public_profile (required) and user_birthday read permissions
    [FBSession openActiveSessionWithReadPermissions:@[@"public_profile", @"user_friends"]
                                       allowLoginUI:YES
                                  completionHandler:
     ^(FBSession *session, FBSessionState state, NSError *error) {
         __block NSString *alertText;
         __block NSString *alertTitle;
         if (!error){
             // If the session was opened successfully
             if (state == FBSessionStateOpen)
             {
                 // Your code here
                 NSLog(@"all good ..");

                 [self getUserFriendsBDays];

             }
             else
             {
                 // There was an error, handle it
                 if ([FBErrorUtility shouldNotifyUserForError:error] == YES)
                 {

                     alertTitle = @"Something went wrong";
                     alertText = [FBErrorUtility userMessageForError:error];
                     [[[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:alertTitle
                                                 message:alertText
                                                delegate:self
                                       cancelButtonTitle:@"OK!"
                                       otherButtonTitles:nil] show];

                 } else {
                     // If the user cancelled login
                     if ([FBErrorUtility errorCategoryForError:error] == FBErrorCategoryUserCancelled)
                     {
                         alertTitle = @"Login cancelled";
                         alertText = @"Your friends birthday will not be entered in our calendar because you didn't grant the permission.";
                         [[[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:alertTitle
                                                     message:alertText
                                                    delegate:self
                                           cancelButtonTitle:@"OK!"
                                           otherButtonTitles:nil] show];

                     } else {
                         NSLog(@"error 2 ..");
                     }
                 }
             }
         }
     }];

}

- (IBAction) getUserFriendsBDays
{

    NSLog(@"promptUserForFriendsBDays ...");




    NSString *fbAccessToken = [[[FBSession activeSession] accessTokenData] accessToken];
    //NSLog(@"permissions::%@ ... fbAccessToken: %@ ...",FBSession.activeSession.permissions, fbAccessToken);


    NSString *request = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"https://graph.facebook.com/me/friends?fields=id,name,birthday&access_token=%@",fbAccessToken];
    NSURL *URL = [NSURL URLWithString:request];

    NSError *error;
    NSString *FBOutPutStr = [NSString stringWithContentsOfURL:URL encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:&error];
    //NSLog(@"FBOutPutStr: %@ ...", FBOutPutStr);


    // Convert to JSON object:
    NSDictionary* jsonObject = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:[FBOutPutStr dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding] options:0 error:NULL];
    //NSLog(@"jsonObject=%@ ...", jsonObject);

    NSArray* dataField = [[NSArray alloc] initWithArray:[jsonObject objectForKey:@"data"]];
    NSLog(@"dataField=%@ ...", dataField);


    // Extract values:
    NSArray *userIDArray = [dataField valueForKey:@"id"];
    NSArray *userNameArray = [dataField valueForKey:@"name"];
    NSArray *userBdayArray = [dataField valueForKey:@"birthday"];

    NSLog(@"userIDArray=%d ... userNameArray=%d ... userBdayArray=%d ...", [userIDArray count],[userNameArray count],[userBdayArray count]);

}