Invite a facebook friend to join in a contest

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We're holding a contest on our website. I want to require the user to invite one facebook friend to join the user on the trip that the user might win.

Facebook has stopped supporting /me/friends in such a way that it won't give us a friend list, unless the friends have also connected with our application.

Any suggestions for alternative solutions?

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There are 2 types of requests:

  1. user to user (when your app is unauthorized)
  2. app to user (when the app is authorized)

You need to send a user-user invite via the requests dialog if the user hasnt authorized your app. Have a look at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/games/requests/v2.0#invites

If the user has authorized the app you can send an app-user invite.

Also, do note that with the v2.0 of the new facebook api, you need to explicitly get a permission from your user of "user_friends"