Is is possible to get someones name (full name) only by his userID? (without access token)
https://graph.facebook.com/USERID/?fields=name
The API indicates that an access token is required.
But if you visit a Facebook profile manually you will get their name:
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=USERID
For this, no further verification is required and anyone can see it, isn't it possible for me to get a name from that page? (for example, the full name is in the page title, can I get it from there?)
Thanks in advance
Simply you cannot access Facebook without authenticating. This is not possible.
But if you visit a Facebook profile manually you will get the name:
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=USERID
You can get some people profiles by above URL, only when you are logged into Facebook. Did you try to access it without login to Facebook?
Answer your question:
Is is possible to get someones name (full name) only by his userID? (without access token)
No, you can't.
How about using app access token? An app access token never experied.
https://graph.facebook.com/USER_ID/?fields=name&access_token=APP_ACCESS_TOKEN
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I'm trying to delete a comment using a Graph API call.
https://graph.facebook.com/[comment-id]?access_token=[access-token]&method=delete
However, in terms of access-token, I'm not sure which one to use? I have used my App's "User Access Token", "Page Access Token" and "App Token". It doesn't work for any of these.
[PS, my app has all permissions, and I have even submitted it for review]
I just wanted to know if it was even possible to delete a comment which was not posted by the application? (Because I see that Delete is only allowed for page access tokens).
So, please do let me know if it is possible to delete a comment from a user's posts. And if so, which access_token to provide.
The docs list all the neccessary Access Tokens and permissions:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.10/comment#deleting
I tried it with a user profile, it does not seem to be possible to post comments or delete them - no matter if was created by the App or manually:
Publishing comments through the API is only available for page access
tokens
For Pages, you need to use a Page Tokens with the neccessary permissions according to the docs.
It looks to me that you're doing an HTTP GET call and just putting &method=delete at the end. That's not how it works
You should do an HTTP DELETE call. So instead of doing something like $.get(...), you should do $.ajax with type: 'DELETE'
Also, make sure your token has publish_actions permission
I created an app on Instagram and was able to get a client_id and secret_code.
I want to display images on my site based on a specific hashtag without needing my user to log in. Every API call requires an access token but I am unable to get without forcing a log in.
This is what I have tried.
https://www.instagram.com/oauth/authorize/?client_id=[my id]&redirect_uri=[redirect]&response_type=code
The error I get is
{"code": 400, "error_type": "OAuthException", "error_message":
"Redirect URI does not match registered redirect URI"}
The redirect URI matches
Is there a simpler way using PHP or JS to get an access token without invoking a login.
You can use passport-instagram package for the authentication. It is the Instagram authentication strategy for passport.
You can find more details here
http://passportjs.org/
This is driving me totally crazy. I've set up an FB app and retrieved an access token by visiting: https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?grant_type=client_credentials&client_id=CLIENT_ID&client_secret=CLIENT_SECRET.
Now I want to grab a (publicly available) feed from this URL: https://graph.facebook.com/PAGE_OR_USER_ID/feed?access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN
It works fine when I try it with my own user ID or even when I try another random page but it DOESN'T work when I enter the PAGE_ID I need it to work with.
Here are some examples:
This works fine (a friend of mine's Facebook page):
https://graph.facebook.com/tatchit/feed?access_token=213451182120494|JgAwuCE74lh51t1pKMuRM2mz3GU&limit=10&offset=0
This also works fine (my own Facebook ID):
https://graph.facebook.com/al.dev.7/feed?access_token=213451182120494|JgAwuCE74lh51t1pKMuRM2mz3GU&limit=10&offset=0
This doesn't work (the client's Facebook page):
https://graph.facebook.com/142616539131188/feed?access_token=213451182120494|JgAwuCE74lh51t1pKMuRM2mz3GU&limit=10&offset=0
I don't get any errors but the result is empty.
If I try the Graph API Explorer it also works fine:
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/?method=GET&path=142616539131188%2Ffeed
But not if I enter my own access token. From what I understand the access tokens you get in the API Explorer are temporary so I don't want to use that.
How can this be?
Also. I've struggled to understand this whole access-token, client-id, app-id-business for ages now - is there a good tutorial where all this stuff is explained? I've never had this work without problems ever.
Thank you
You should be using user access token for all the above queries. App Access token is used when you want to do something like check the app insights so and so.
When the pages has age restrictions or something so, app token wont be able to get through, but since the user is already a member of the page, you can use the user access token to get the data.
Add : Quoting from the documentation,
Note that the **app access token** is for publishing purposes permitted by the publish_actions and publish_stream permissions. You will be **unable to retrieve information** about the status update post with the given ID using the app access token. Instead, you should use a **user access token** for such purposes.
Other Capabilities of an App Access Token
There is a limited set of information that can be retrieved from Facebook using an App Access Token.
Basic Profile Info of a User (ID, Name, Username, Gender)
A User’s Friends and their IDs
Permissions granted by the User to your App
Read : https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/using-app-tokens/
So you should be querying with the user_access token to access all the informations that you are looking for, not with an app access_token.
You are using an App Access token instead of a User Access token. Some of the pages you are viewing may have a country or age restriction set, so using an app token will not work.
See: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/concepts/login/access-tokens-and-types/
Im trying to use javascript to determine if a user is a fan of a page that i've created on my account.
I found the facebook graph api which looks like just what i want. However it appears for some functionality i need an access token.
Here it says I can just http get my /user_id/accounts page with the manage_pages permission and it will list the access token for each page.
But when i submit https://graph.facebook.com/myuserid/accounts&scope=manage_pages i get "OAuthException : Access token is required to request this resource."
I also tried from this answer, but then i get "An error occurred, please try later".
Any suggestions most welcome.
You will need an access token to retrieve any information that is not public on facebook.
You can read up on this page about authenticating a user. Once your user is authenticated you can retrieve the access token and use it in your future requests (for that user)..
eg:
https://graph.facebook.com/{YOUR_USER_ID}/accounts&access_token={YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN}
FIXED NOW! But I can't answer my own question yet. See my comment below. And thanks for helping.
I've searched and searched and read the docs and still can't figure this out.
I have a web page about an event. There's also a public Facebook "event" for my event. I'm trying to use the FB Javascript SDK to get the number of attendees for the Facebook event and add it to the number of people who've registered through the website.
I've created an app and I have an appID and secret string. I can get an access token from:
https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?client_id=XXXX&client_secret=XXXXX&grant_type=client_credentials
and I can then use that access token to get the attendees for a public event:
https://graph.facebook.com/331218348435/attending?access_token=XXXXXXXXX
That's all fine.
I'm now trying to do this same thing using the Javascript SDK.
I've loaded the SDK and done an init:
FB.init({
appId : 'XXXXXXXX',
status : true, // check login status
cookie : true, // enable cookies to allow the server to access the session
xfbml : true // parse XFBML
});
and I know the SDK is working because I can get an object with the data that doesn't need an access token:
FB.api( '/331218348435', function (response) { console.log ( response ) } );
but when I try to get the attendee data that needs the access token:
FB.api( '/331218348435/attending', function (response) { console.log ( response ) } );
I get an OAuthException: "An access token is required to request this resource."
All the tutorials and information I can find all refers to using the .login method, but I don't want a user to login, I want to login using my app ID without any user interaction.
I'd assumed that the API took the SDK's init request and granted me an access token when I called the .init method, the authentication being done against my website's address (the HTTP referrer - yes I have set my website URL in the Facebook app settings).
Any ideas what might be causing this to not work? How can I get the access token using the Javascript SDK without doing a .login? Am I missing a step? Is this even possible?
Thanks
Form what the rather circular documentations says, getting the attending feed requires a 'generic access_token`. In Facebook terms:
Any valid access_token
Any valid access token returned by our APIs. An access token may not be valid if, for example, it has expired. No special permissions are required. Occasionally, this is referred to as a generic access_token.
So this means that you can use any token you like to access the attending feed, as long as the event is public. The easiest access token to get seems to be an app token: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/#applogin. You can get this token using only your App ID and Secret, and no user interaction is required.
To summerise the link content: You can get an application access token by sending a GET request to
https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?client_id=YOUR_APP_ID&client_secret=YOUR_APP_SECRET&grant_type=client_credentials
You can then use that access_token to make the call for you attending list
FB.api('MyEvent/attending?access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN');
Oh. OK.
Well, for whatever reason, I went away and had my dinner and when I come back it's working fine.
When I updated the settings for my app Facebook said it might take a few minutes for the change to get around the servers. Turned out to take over an hour!
My code was fine.
Thanks for your help.