June 24, 2010 at 2:14pm
Apparently you can “haxor” facebook to get data its dumb public API won’t give you, aka a list of friends of anyone (if that list is public anyway). The url is:
http://www.facebook.com/ajax/typeahead_friends.php?u=<someones id>&__a=1
And get JSON goodness out of it. This means the application I was trying to write years ago can work. The application was going to find people you don’t know who share two of your friends, but aren’t “obviously” related (aka more than 1 mutual friend). Maybe I’ll pick it up again.
