I have a scenario, where an authorised user through my application is posting status/uploading pictures via my application by granting required permissions. My application uses graph APIs.
Now, as app administrator if I want to see the content of the post, that the user has uploaded via my application. How do i do it?
I know in graph APIs, I have INSIGHTS api. But, it just gives us the statistics of the posts done via my app or user.
Can i really see the posts?
Assuming as an app admin I only have app access token and app ID. I dont store user access tokens with me.
Actually, I worked on the problem with every possible way. Found out that, even being an APP administrator I will need user access token (stored with me), without which these data shall not be retrieved via APIs.
My need was not to use user access token; But, no Its not possible via APIs as of now.
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Is it possible to use facebook-api without making any facebook app, just from Graph api?
So that I can ask people to share there facebook profile information(public or non-public) with me given that they have control over whatever information they want to share. In graph-api, the only way I know, is to ask people to get a access token and give me.
I wanted it to be a system generated request for permission and all they had to do is just hit okay or hit cancel and depending that I get response related to access-token.
and To make a working facebook-app I atleast need to have a website or android app or something else, which I don't have it yet.
I can't think of any working way.
No, you need Access Tokens for almost all API calls, and you can only get Access Tokens with an App - no matter which Access Token.
#luschn is right that you need Access Token to API Calls. You can easily create a new app using Facebook. Once you created an app, you can generate token, which can be used to make Graph API Calls.
Helpful Links:
App Create Link https://developers.facebook.com/apps
Get Token: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer?method=GET&path=comment&version=v2.11
I have a desktop app which uses a user access token to read the me/feed endpoint and I can see all the posts for the logged in user. If I wanted to simplify deployment to different users I would need to minimise the amount of setup/configuration they did.
Is there a way to access me/feed for a given userid rather than have to setup every user as a developer account and create an app for it?
I have looked at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/using-graph-api/v2.0 and it is not obvious to me how to do this.
What configuration / permissions does the user in question need to do to activate this. Which access token should I be using, and will it give access to all the posts in the same way the user access token does.
[EDIT] I have looked at this again and the problem I am having is that when a user (who has a facebook account but is NOT a developer) tries to login to my App (which is in development mode) I get the following error
"App Not Setup: The developers of this app have not set up this app properly for Facebook Login."
Thanks in advance
Suppose that I make an app that is using Facebook login (basically for dealing with who is who). Is it possible that the app to fetch the user's history from Foursquare if it get the user's permission? (The user uses Facebook's login on Foursquare as well)
No. You need to go through each authorization flow separately. First, the user grant your application access by going to Facebook and coming back with an access token (or authorization code you later exchange). Then you need to send them over to Foursquare to approve access again. Foursquare might need to authenticate them via Facebook but that's really not your concern (and should be transparent if they have an active Facebook session). Foursquare will issue you another access token for their API.
There are discussions in the community about the use case of allowing your application to pass the Facebook access token to Foursquare so they can validate the user identity with Facebook and then issue you an access token. However, there are many issues with that. By not directly interacting with the user, Foursquare has no way of knowing that the user wants to give one application access to their data stored on another application.
I am creating a web application that is trying to use "public" Facebook content.
It is not your traditional "Facebook Application" because I'm not actually signing up Facebook users to use it, but the users will be all server-side.
I've come to a point in which I am having to use an "access_token" for certain "public" pieces of content and I have been able to generate a app access_token but this does not work for the public data I'm interested in accessing.
access_token's created via
https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?client_id=APP_ID&client_secret=APP_SECRET&grant_type=client_credentials
do not work for
https://graph.facebook.com/chickfila/notes?access_token=CODE_FROM_ABOVE
which is publicly accessable w/o login here...
http://www.facebook.com/ChickfilA?sk=notes
Any way to give an app itself a user-level access_token?
I had a very similar problem with publicly available event data. What I had to do was to create an offline access token for the admin of the application.
So, log in with your admin and open the following URL (replace APP ID with your ID and eventually you need more permissions, but read_stream and offline_access should do the trick):
https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/authorize?client_id=APPID&scope=offline_access,read_stream&redirect_uri=http://www.facebook.com/connect/login_success.html
This will give you a code, that you will paste in the following URL (with your APP ID and SECRET):
https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?client_id=APPID&redirect_uri=http://www.facebook.com/connect/login_success.html&client_secret=SECRET&code=CODE
This will give you an access token that should work forever (or until you change your password).
Recently I used the access token freely available from the Facebook Graph Explorer which will let you browse different graph resources and will let you specify what permissions you need. For this you can tell it you want offline_access and that token can be used to pull this information whenever it is needed without worrying about your token expiring.
Create an user just for your app and let the user authorize your app and get the access token and use it for this kind of data fetching. Some manual work but as long as you have some user authorized access token you should be able get the public contents.
In the Facebook javascript api there is a login function in which you specify extended permissions:
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/javascript/FB.login
One of these permissions is offline access. So I can save the facebook user's session key and assume it will not expire for a long time. The question I have is simple - how do I use the session key? I understand that the session key will last longer, but I don't understand how to use it in the Facebook API. For one of my products, a user must restart his/her browser and I would like to recognize them when they restart. The problem is that they are logged out of facebook, so they must login on my site again where I would rather just use offline access. Sample code would be great!
Thanks
Offline access allows you to use the user's access token on the Facebook Graph API indefinitely (unless they revoke your application's access).
It is not intended for logging the user back in. It's intended for you to be able to access their profile (and potentially do stuff to it, if you have permission) at all times, not just when they have a live session on your site.