How to search for friends by location?
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Using GraphAPI, I see you can request location of a specific friend, or search for friends by criteria. However, I couldn't find a way to search for friends in my area. I want to perform a search and get a results of friends who are in a radius of X meters from me. I know I can fetch each friend manually and check its location, but it seems a bit inefficient so I'm looking for a batch search, EDIT: I've found a similar question (and answer) using FQL: facebook fql query similar to friends checkins...
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Well, you partly answered yourself there... When you query about a user friend, you get his location...
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