Facebook API 2.0 - Is Profile Public for View

Question

I'm searching and yet cant find a way, how to check if page is public for view in facebook

example

www.facebook.com/zuck - is public
www.facebook.com/jacek.pietal - is not public

I mean, by public, a page can be observable (for public persons)

I need to check this with PHP API

1. I know there was SUPPOSED to be a is_published field on /me GET but there isn't

2. I know accessing /user_id should get this but I can only do this from app-level session and it always can read that because users have accepted my app

Answer 1

Those are not pages, those are user profiles. The is_published field is only available for pages, as you can see in the docs:

• https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.3/user
• https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.3/page