Getting facebook's JSON? - facebook

Question

I need a little help with getting some JSON out of facebook, basically all I need to do is get the status text and post it to a website.
I'm using the method below, but the access_tokens with this method expires every hour.
$.getJSON('https://graph.facebook.com/SOME_ID?fields=statuses.limit(10).fields(message)&access_token=SOME_ACCESS_TOKEN', function(data) {});
Note that i got the URL above from facebook graph API explorer.
any other way to achieve what I am trying to do?
update:
I used FB.api, but i'm not sure if I've done it correctly as it is sending me this error
"An access token is required to request this resource."
window.fbAsyncInit = function() {
FB.init({
appId : 'My_app_id', // App ID
channelUrl : '//myHost.com/facebook/channel.php', // Channel File
status : true, // check login status
cookie : true, // enable cookies to allow the server to access the session
xfbml : true // parse XFBML
});
FB.api('USER_ID?fields=statuses.fields(message)', function(response) {
console.log(response);
});
// Additional initialization code here
};
// Load the SDK Asynchronously
(function(d){
var js, id = 'facebook-jssdk', ref = d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}
js = d.createElement('script'); js.id = id; js.async = true;
js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js";
ref.parentNode.insertBefore(js, ref);
}(document));
Note that i replaced (my_app_id, myHost.com and USER_ID) with the right values.
thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Assuming you have the Javascript SDK implemented i would suggest using the FB.api method.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/javascript/FB.api/

Answer 2

The user needs to be logged in to Facebook and allow your app before you can call the API, update your code to this:
window.fbAsyncInit = function() {
FB.init({
appId : 'My_app_id', // App ID
channelUrl : '//myHost.com/facebook/channel.php', // Channel File
status : true, // check login status
cookie : true, // enable cookies to allow the server to access the session
xfbml : true // parse XFBML
});
FB.getLoginStatus(function(response) {
if (response.status === 'connected') {
FB.api('USER_ID?fields=statuses.fields(message)', function(response) {
console.log(response);
});
}
});
};
More information on the getLoginStatus status: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/javascript/FB.getLoginStatus/
You will also need to also need to ask the permission user_status see the doc for more details: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/permissions/
You should ask for permissions when calling FB.login:
FB.login(function(response) {
// handle the response
}, {scope: 'user_status'});
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/javascript/FB.login/