Get application id by name

Question

I need to get an application's category. In order to get that information from the graph api I need to get it's application id. However, all that I have access to is the application name that is in the URL.

I have: http://apps.facebook.com/graffitiwall

I need: https://graph.facebook.com/2439131959

Is there anyway to translate "graffittiwall" into "2439131959"?

Note: I cannot simply use the name because the graph API only looks up users and pages by name.

Answer 1

i think facebook have change their field name canvas_name to namespace.

so now you can get this simply replace canvas_name with namespace.like

https://graph.facebook.com/fql?q=SELECT+app_id,namespace,category+FROM+application+WHERE+namespace=%22graffitiwall%22

Answer 2

Unfortunately, I don't think retrieveing an application's info through application's name is possible with Facebook Graph API. You need to have the unique id of the application in order to access its basic information.

An interesting idea would be going through users' apprequests to find the ids of different application. Then you can get the category of the application from app id.