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Simon Tenbeitel
Simon Tenbeitel

Reputation: 877

How to get access_token from Facebook

I'm trying to write a small application which can read the public events of a Facebook page. So I don't need a specific user access_token, this would be too much work. I wrote a small script, which should get the access_token, but it doesn't :(

<?php
$url= "https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?type=client_cred&    client_id=my_client_id&client_secret=my_client secret";
$access_token = file_get_contents($url);
$access_token = substr($access_token,strpos($access_token,"=")+1);
print access_token;

}
?>

if i open the url in my browser, I get an access_token, but this doesn't work :(

Upvotes: 0

Views: 142

Answers (3)

Emil Aspman
Emil Aspman

Reputation: 1016

You can get a app_access_token this way:

$app_access_token = file_get_contents('https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?type=client_cred&client_id='.$app_id.'&client_secret='.$secret);

More info here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/technical-guides/opengraph/publishing-with-app-token/

Upvotes: 0

underscore
underscore

Reputation: 6887

Check this out:

Facebook Graph API

Hope that helps.

Resources here

How-To: Publishing With an App Token here

Upvotes: 1

Subir Kumar Sao
Subir Kumar Sao

Reputation: 8411

Facebook needs a browser to be able to identify the user. You cannot do it using file_get_contents.

You should redirect the url and on the landing page get the access_token.

I have a small example on my blog on how to do it. See here

Upvotes: 0

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