I have an application on Facebook with the API key, application secret etc....
I'm trying the use the Facebook API from a java application and it's telling me that it requires an OAuth2.0 access token. I tried googling about but I'm a bit lost. From where could I get this?
Thank a lot :)
Krt_Malta
See:
Facebook Graph API — getting access tokens
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I know how to get short-term user access token then extend it to long-term access token (facebook) when i have my own app id and app secret. But now I want to get and extend the access token provided by Graph Api Explorer. How can I do it ?
If we do it manually, we get an access token from Graph Api Explorer but its short term and will expires in about 1 hours, how can I make it a long-term access token?
This is not possible. To extend the Access Tokens, you must utilize an app_id as well as an app_secret. I assume you don't have the app_secret of the Graph Explorer, so this might get difficult.
See
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/access-tokens#extending
I still have this issue and Tobi not understood the problem.
The Facebook Access Tokens are really problematic most of times and this is one of the bigger issue.
I have a facebook stream plugin where user can show their personal profile posts.
But the only access token that work is the one generated by Graph API Explorer and this can not be extended. Any other access token associated to an APP will not work.
Is incredible that Facebook not have a tool to allow users to generate an access token for access their personal informations.
Currently there is not any working solution. Incredible.
I am building a SPA (Single-page application) that is going to consume and REST API. My application will use the facebook login.
Just to clarify my ideas:
I will use Facebook SDK (javascript) to authenticate my new user. Facebook will give me an access token. This will run on client side.
Now, i will make a request to my REST API. Do i need to pass the access token to the REST API? DO i need to verify always to see if the user is logged?
I know it is a newbie question..
As long as you are using the JavaScript SDK (and FB.login), you don´t need to worry about the Access Token - at least not in most cases.
You can verify if a user is authorized already by using FB.getLoginStatus on page load.
For this task I have already created my own facebook application to get the API key and secret key. Can anyone explain the next steps that should be done to
1) Read from facebook API
2) Write my own database
by using web services
Thanks in advance!
A high level answer:
I'm assuming you want to use the authorization code OAuth flow (this means you want Facebook users to give you access to their profiles so you can grab data from there). If so, you need to bring up a web server and an application that will run your users through the Facebook OAuth flow. In case you just want to access Facebook with your own credentials you don't have to have a web server, simply use the client credentials OAuth flow.
So, Once you have a valid access token, you simply make calls to Facebook API using this token. using Facebook Graph API is simply a matter of calling URLs and getting the data as JSON.
You can test-drive the API here.
BTW, according to Facebook's platform policy, you're only allowed to store Facebook data for caching purposes.
Let me know if this helps.
Take for example, when using the Koala ruby gem
To access the graph api, we initialize the graph object using the user token key. This is clear, since it contains information that we got from the successful authentication
To access the realtimeupdates api, we initialize the realtimeupdates object using the app access key, which does not seem to have require any user specific authentication information
So, when does facebook require which token?
Here is a detailed explanation on OAuth site. Link here
We're hoping to create mobile phone applications for (among other features) posting video to a user's FaceBook page. However, using their API, it looks like we would need to open a web viewer and have the user enter their login credentials every time the application is used. We would prefer to store these credentials so the user only has to login once.
We could of course save the http login post and resend it as needed, but this breaks if FaceBook changes their API and I worry about their terms of service and using an unofficial hack such as this.
Maybe someone knows of another application that uses Facebook this way?
You should have been returned an oAuth token to use.
The new Facebook API has a service you can call with the old tokens and it returns you a new oAuth token.
You just have to add offline_access to your permissions. You do this by adding &scope=offline_permissions at the end of your authorization url. Then your oAuth token won't expire.