I was able to fetch facebook events through my code until couple of days back and it used to return me proper JSON data with all the requested fields.
Suddenly i am trying to do it today again and i get only id value and nothing else. Any idea what went wrong.
http://graph.facebook.com/userid?limit=20&fields=events.fields(description,end_time,location,name,ticket_uri,venue)&access_token=access_token
is the request url format i am using.
You must use https:// when passing an access token.
Possibly, your access token don't let you fetch those details since you have not authorized your app to fetch user_events. You can check the access token here.
So, you have to check whether the user have authorized your app for this action or not before making this query. You can also fetch the permissions that user has granted at any time using-
/me/permissions
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I need to request all posts on a public Facebook page. I do this with the following command:
https://graph.facebook.com/108062775923510/posts?access_token=[APP_ID]|[APP_SECRET]&limit=100
When I call this, I don't get all posts which are actually posted on that page. When I use instead a user access token, my request returns all latest posts. But using a user access token is not an option since this command is frequently executed by the server.
Does anyone know what a possible solution might be?
The login flow is working, I get a valid access token and everything. But when I retrieve the user data, I only get the name and userID. No email or other info from the public profile.
If I run a /me/permissions it returns granted on both email and public_profile. If I use facebook's Debug Tool with the access token it tells me the correct scope: email,public_profile.
So why am I not being able to get the data? I can't finish the signup process without it.
Any ideas?
As of Graph API 2.4, it no more returns several fields, you should explicitly ask for fields you want. See Graph API Changelog
Please read Graph API docs, especially this part about choosing fields
I have created an application on developers.facebook.com from my profile. Get APP ID, APP SECRET and generate TOKEN. Now, when I send the request like
https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=media&type=page&access_token=MY_TOKEN
is ok, but when I try to send the request for GROUP, like
https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=media&type=group&access_token=MY_TOKEN
I get the error
The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden.
Seems I have permissions problem. I set the permissions friends_groups, user_friends, user_groups to the account, but.. still the same error...
Can you please tall me what am I doing wrong? Maybe I need a different token?
As I understand you're using an App AccessToken for an endpoint (object type) which needs a user AccessToken. See the docs at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/using-graph-api/#search
It's stating
"All Graph API search queries require an access token included in the request. The type of access token you need depends on the type of search you're executing.
Searches across Page and Place objects requires an app access token.
All other endpoints require a user access token."
I have the access token from the user, and I want to retrive the data from their profile. I am working on Unity3D c# therefore I can not use any SDK.
Is there a way of getting it trough a graph request?
I've already tried with
https://graph.facebook.com/me?access_token=00000000000000|AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
but throws me an error like this..
"message": "An active access token must be used to query information about the current user.",
When I ask for permissions I ask the user to allow me the publish_stream and to access profile data.
How do I get an active access token? I just want the UserID.
Thanks for your answers, and sorry for my terrible english.
So I wanted ti get the User UserAgent Token the only thing that you must do is add that parameter to the Access URL in my case
https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/authorize?type=user_agent&client_id=000000000000000&redirect_uri=http://yourRedirectdomain.com&scope=user_photos,email,user_birthday,offline_access,plublish_stream
Facebook will redirect you to the redirect_uri URL, and the access token will be given in form of a hash. Extra Tip: Yo have to access the Hashed token vía Javascript,
var hash = document.location.hash;
var n=hash.split("=");
This is one method, Im sure there is a better one.
Thank everybody for the answers!
you're Graph Call / HTTP request looks about right.
I'm guessing, based on the error, that the access token has expired.
Normally, they last for about 1-2 hours since the last time they were used. (If i recall correctly). So, a user will start using a website, and the website can make graph calls with the access token while the user is actually using the website for that session, but the token will expire soon after that.
However, you can also ask Facebook for a longer lasting access_token, which will last for approximately 60 days.
Check here for some info :: http://developers.facebook.com/roadmap/offline-access-removal/
As it stands, trying to find this info through browsing the developer docs in Facebook is rather difficult, if not impossible. :-/
You can’t query the API for /me with an app access token, since the API has no way of knowing who “me” is supposed to be.
Only user access tokens contain the info which user id they apply to, and hence only those can be used to query /me successfully.
I'm working on a site that is trying to handle realtime feed updates from its users' Facebook accounts. I have the basic stuff in place: the app is subscribed to "feed", and the user's login asks for read_stream and offline_access (just in case) permissions. My test users have logged into FB and granted those permissions, and, when one of those users adds (or removes) a status update, the callback specified in my site's subscription is pinged. So far, all's well.
Now -- as I understand it -- my callback has to call up to Facebook to get the user's feed, so that the callback can do whatever it's going to do with it. That's where I'm having problems -- finding the right access token to retrieve the feed:
I've tried doing this with the app's access token. This token is able to retrieve friend information (also included in the app's subscription and user permissions), but it won't get me the feed.
I've tried all sorts of ways to get the user's access token from inside the callback, but nothing is working. I'm guessing this is because it's not "logged into Facebook" the way that a user in a browser can be, but whatever. Bottom line is I haven't found a way to get this token.
(BTW, if I cheat -- get an access token for the user from Graph API Explorer and hard-code it into the callback, the callback works properly. This is no real solution, of course, but it at least establishes that the rest of my code is working.)
So how does this work? Can the app access token be made to work somehow? Is there in fact a way for the callback to get an access token for an arbitrary authorized user? There's gotta be a way to do this, or there would be no point for realtime feed notifications. Any clues out there? This is SERIOUSLY kicking my butt... Thanks!
You might want to look into this. Instead of taking permission for offline access, facebook now gives short-lived access tokens (2 hours) when the user logs in. These can be exchanged with long-lived access tokens (2 months). Check out this article on how to go about it.
https://developers.facebook.com/roadmap/offline-access-removal/
I've found a solution, perhaps: When the user logs in, I snag their offline_access-enabled access token and save it in the app with the rest of the user's data. Then when I get notified of an update to that user's feed, I can pull the token from the database and pass it over to FB as the token part of the /feed... call. And, it works. There is no doubt some error handling to be done, but I am currently bouncing back and forth between thinking that (a) this is exactly the right way to handle this and (b) it's a terrible hack that is just asking for trouble. I guess I'll see which of these is the case...
Ask for offline_access (as you do) and store the access token. This is exactly why offline_access and access tokens are there, to make requests to facebook in the name of that user. (a) is the right way to go. (a) is the way I do it.
Good luck
When the user is authenticated via OAuth Facebook returns an access-token, but it is valid for few hours. The validity of this token comes with it as token-expiry.
However, this token can be exchanged with a new extended token which is valid for around 60 days. User the following code to get new-token:
URL url=new URL("https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?grant_type=fb_exchange_token&client_id="+appId+"&client_secret="+clientSecretId+"&fb_exchange_token="+fb_exchange_token;
InputStream Istream=url.openConnection().getInputStream();
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(Istream));
String new_token= br.readLine();
Hope it helps!!