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Reputation: 1271

Facebook App to Post HTTP GET to Timeline

A lot of the documentation online is pre open graph, and I find the Facebook developers documentation quite confusing (I'm a novice developer). Can someone please tell me, at a high level, how or where I might find out how to go about creating an app in Facebook where I can post to my business' page timeline through a single encoded HTTP GET (or similar) request.

I understand I might have to make a simple FB app and authorize it to talk with a separate web app. But I'm just looking at pointers at this stage.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 98

Answers (1)

tattvamasi
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Reputation: 825

well it isn't quite correct that you can only find pre-open graph things on Facebook. Anyhow, to post, you need an access token. What you seek to do is update your fan page via app, if I get it correctly. That isn't done with just one url: you need to call at least two: 1) one call is to authorize the app and get an access token 2) the second call is to get your accounts (fan pages) with ids and access tokens 3) the third call is to update your fan page via app. The url to post via app would be https://graph.facebook.com/$your_id/feed with the following parameters: access_token, message (the message you want to post, not required), link (if any. Not required.), image (not required), description (not required), caption (not required), etc. You need at least a message or a link for the post. If you use php the easiest is a curl POST call. I've found something for you here, by the way

Upvotes: 2

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