Facebook API Search by phone number

Question

So I have a huge list of phone numbers and want to find facebook users for each of the phone numbers if they exist. There are tons of iphone apps, etc that pull in your contact list and match them to facebook accounts. Any ideas on how I can do this?

Thanks in advance.

Jim

Answer 1

You will need to call the API 'login()' function with the permission "user_mobile_phone". You can then retrieve it as usual.

Here is the FB dev post and examples of doing this:

http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2011/01/14/platform-updates--new-user-object-fields--edge-remove-event-and-more/