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Gabriel Petrovay
Gabriel Petrovay

Reputation: 21864

Publishing to Facebook user feed from NodeJs

If I do the publishing with a curl command everything works correctly:

curl \
    -F 'access_token=...' \
    -F 'message=hello' \
    https://graph.facebook.com/me/feed

And the response is:

{"id":"100001692713927_542460169153735"}

But doing the same from NodeJs making the POST using the request module:

var formData = {
    access_token: '...',
    message: 'hello5'
};

request.post('https://graph.facebook.com/me/feed', formData, function (error, response, body) { … });

I get the error:

{
    "error": {
        "message": "(#200) This API call requires a valid app_id.", 
        "type": "OAuthException",
        "code": 200
    }
}

I used both me and the user ID in the URL and the behavior is the same.

What can be wrong here?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 503

Answers (3)

saurshaz
saurshaz

Reputation: 509

I think facebook POST request expects app_id -which is something you will get when you create an application at facebook over here - https://developers.facebook.com/apps .

That app_id when provided shall get you through.

Upvotes: 0

attomos
attomos

Reputation: 1202

I think you will have to use Facebook SDK for Node.js, this might help you.

Upvotes: 1

Gabriel Petrovay
Gabriel Petrovay

Reputation: 21864

The problem in the above code is the wrong format of the request.post data parameter. t should be:

var formData = {
    form: {
        access_token: "...",
        message: "hello"
    }
};

This was the mistake.

Upvotes: 2

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