Can't get facebook ID - facebook

I can't create an app for my FB page, when I try to access http://developers.facebook.com/apps/ I get redirected to my page. Does anyone else have a similar issue?

Sounds like you are using Facebook as your Page and not you.
Select the option use Facebook as you from your page and then you should be able to visit http://developers.facebook.com/apps/ and create an App. Shortcut link http://developers.facebook.com/setup/
Once created you can add said app to your page (still using Facebook as you and not your Page).

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How do I display a facebook app without the apps.facebook link

I have a facebook iframe app which opens properly with a link like https://apps.facebook.com/<app_name>
However I want it to open with a profile like https://www.facebook.com/<name>/app_<app_id>.
For example: https://www.facebook.com/inwi.ma/app_425874907457614
Any idea how this can be achieved?
What you need to do is add this application as a page tab to gain accces to a URL like that.
More info on how to get started with your tab application can be found on Facebook's documentation - https://developers.facebook.com/docs/appsonfacebook/pagetabs/

How to embed fbApp within fbPage in a specific way?

how can I embed my app in my facebook page in a way as here:
www.facebook.com/SzkolaSTRAMA?v=app_323694844330149
I have attached the app to my page using the magic url:
http://facebook.com/add.php?api_key=&pages=1&page=
and tried to open somehow the app within using the v parameter, but it seems it is not that. Can someone give me a clue? Thanks.
Now you can add an application to a page in a page tab by going to below mentioned url
https://www.facebook.com/dialog/pagetab?app_id=YOUR_APP_ID&next=YOUR_URL
You need to change "app_id" with your app_id, you can find it in app settings, "Your_url" should be replaced with your application complete url for e.g. "https://www.facebook.com/TestApplication?sk=app_389610254390000"
after changing values press enter, If you are admin of any Facebook page then you will be taken to a screen where you can select the page, after completion of this step your app will be added to page tab.
For further clarification go to this link
https://www.facebook.com/dialog/pagetab?app_id=YOUR_APP_ID&next=YOUR_URL
YOUR_URL should be replaced with your Canvas url.
(The page that is being loaded into iframe on facebook)
APP_ID with id of the Page Tab application.
Explained also here
https://stackoverflow.com/a/10535905/1520297

Direct link to Facebook mobile site using pageID

graph.facebook.com/cocacola will tell you that the id for the cocacola page is 40796308305.
You can get to the cocacola page using either www.facebook.com/cocacola or www.facebook.com/40796308305.
However, to get to the mobile facebook site m.facebook.com/cocacola works, m.facebook.com/40796308305 doesn't.
For reasons I won't go into I have the pageID, not the vanity url and I need to link to the mobile site.
Specifically, I'd like to link to the equivalent of m.facebook.com/cocacola?v=feed to link to the wall instead of info.
So, I either need a way to link to a mobile page using the page id or a way to make the regular www link redirect to the mobile wall instead of the info page.
You may need to create (or discover the already created) proper "name" ID and use that together with the pageID as your landing page, for example, mine works as follows:
http://m.facebook.com/pages/BCmoney-MobileTV/190267987672979
But using just my pageID it does not:
http://m.facebook.com/pages/190267987672979
In addition, you could use the Graph API to deduce the "vanity URL" as you refer to it:
http://graph.facebook.com/40796308305
Looks like this is the page you're looking for:
http://m.facebook.com/pages/Coca-Cola/40796308305
The simplest way I found to get the mobile version of any Facebook page is to go the desktop version of the page on your browser of choice and then replace the www with m and press Enter. The Facebook Mobile Web version of the page loads in your browser.
I had the same problem with a link on a website, but I don't want everyone to go to the mobile site, just those on mobile devices.
The solution was to add ?v=wall to it. It works for both desktop and mobile now. Here is what my link looks like now: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Virginia-B-Andes-Volunteer-Community-Clinic/153180528039538?v=wall

How to redirect the user to the log in page in a Facebook App

I am hosting a Facebook app on Google app engine, I need to make sure the user is logged into facebook before anything.
What I can currently do is display facebook's log in button using fbxml, but I prefer the user would be redirected to Facebook's log in page if he wasn't logged in, then back to my app's main page, this way I can make sure that the user is logged in before doing anything.
I am new to Facebook apps, I read here that I can redirect the user to
https://www.facebook.com/dialog/oauth?client_id=YOUR_APP_ID&redirect_uri=YOUR_URL
in order to authenticate him. But using GAE's self.redirect(url) doesn't work, the page stays the same. I was hoping I could do something like this in my handler:
if u'signed_request' in self.request.POST:
facebook.load_signed_request(self.request.get('signed_request'))
if not facebook.user_id:
self.redirect("https://www.facebook.com/dialog/oauth?"+
"client_id={0}&redirect_uri={1}"
.format(FACEBOOK_APP_ID, EXTERNAL_HREF))
return
but as i said earlier this doesn't work.
I'm assuming by 'Facebook App' you mean a Canvas App - so something that will live at https://apps.facebook.com/YOUR_NAMESPACE from a user perspective?
If so, you'll need to add the redirect via Javascript using window.top, as your app is loaded in an iframe. See https://developers.facebook.com/docs/appsonfacebook/tutorial/ and search for 'top', then view the example toward the end of the page.
There are also good examples on the Php Sdk that facebook provides. I like the with_js_sdk.php example. It runs seamlessly and is good to follow.
https://github.com/facebook/php-sdk
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/php/

Facebook open graph like button

How do I get the facebook open graph admin button to appear on my website? I've have all of the meta data filled out and have ran it through their linter,
Use this page to get the code for your Facebook Like button, and then add that code to your page (Assuming you know how to do this. If not, I can help you there).