Social Graph API's "otherme" method

Contents

1. Introduction
2. URL format
3. Request Parameters
4. Example Request & Response

Introduction

The otherme method gives you an easy way to query a person's other idenfitiers (e.g. URLs) based on one or more identifiers for that person that you do know.

For instance, you might have a social networking site that asks users for the URLs of their other social networking sites' URLs. The user, though, might be bored of typing in their dozen some URLs into each of their dozen some social networking sites. Instead of asking them to do all this work, just ask the Social Graph API! Hit the otherme with what you do know (their email address and/or any URLs of theirs that they have entered, etc) and let the Social Graph API recommend other URLs that the user can then select. For instance, this is exactly what Google does itself with Google Profiles.

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URL format

The otherme method is accessible with URLs like:

http://socialgraph.apis.google.com/otherme?<parameter 1>&<parameter 2>&<parameter n>

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Parameters

The follow is a summary of the available parameters:

Example Request & Response

Imagine you know your user is bob@example.com and has URL http://example.com/user/bob. You'd do a request like:

http://socialgraph.apis.google.com/otherme?q=bob@example.com,http://example.com/user/bob&pretty=1

And the response would look like:

{
 "http://example-bob.livejournal.com/": {
  "attributes": {
   "atom": "http://example-bob.livejournal.com/data/atom",
   "foaf": "http://example-bob.livejournal.com/data/foaf",
   "rss": "http://example-bob.livejournal.com/data/rss",
   "fn": "Mr. Example Bob",
   "url": "http://example-bob.livejournal.com/",
   "profile": "http://example-bob.livejournal.com/profile"
  }
 },
 "http://twitter.com/example_bob": {
  "attributes": {
   "atom": "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/example_bob.atom",
   "rss": "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/example_bob.rss",
   "url": "http://twitter.com/example_bob",
   "profile": "http://twitter.com/example_bob"
  }
 },
 "mailto:bob@other.example.com": {
  "attributes": {
  }
 },
 "xmpp:bobf@example.com": {
  "attributes": {
  }
 }
}

The response object's keys are URLs that you didn't request. Each returned URL may have attributes as well.