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Asked: 2026-05-21T18:03:25+00:00

I am trying to understand, how facebook authentication works and how the flow should

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I am trying to understand, how facebook authentication works and how the flow should look like. I am working with Google App Engine and I have managed to obtain first the code and then access token. Using it I can for example retrieve user’s friends list. This is all cool.

However, how can I store this access_token? I wan to allow my user to access different pages in my facebook app and I will need this access token on those pages. How can I store it and how can I retrieve it? Or maybe no matter which page user accesses I first need to get the code and then access token and only then can I perform some operations on his behalf?

I don’t want to use javascript sdk for now. Is it possible to do it all from server side?

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  1. Editorial Team

    how can I store this access_token? I
    wan to allow my user to access
    different pages in my facebook app and
    I will need this access token on those
    pages. How can I store it and how can
    I retrieve it?

    just store the access_token in the datastore.
    https://github.com/facebook/python-sdk/blob/master/examples/appengine/example.py
    line 50.

    It is from the facebook python sdk.
    https://github.com/facebook/python-sdk/

    If you don’t want to use javascript sdk, you need to see this document. It has all details for facebook Oauth.
    http://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/

    While facebook redirect your user to your page assigned by redirect_uri. It will give your the code (A_CODE_GENERATED_BY_SERVER), then your server can get the user’s access_token/facebook id with server side facebook api + code. Then you can login your user (set the session/cookie) and do whatever you want.

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