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Asked: 2026-05-24T08:05:12+00:00

I am working in mobile environments that do not support Javascript. Is it possible

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I am working in mobile environments that do not support Javascript. Is it possible to add Facebook Like functionality to a page, probably doing server-side requests to Facebook?

For a more detailed example, if I go to http://ogp.me/, there is a Like button towards the bottom of the page. Clicking on that uses Javascript, optionally signing into Facebook if the relevant cookies aren’t there.

I want to provide the same functionality, but without using Javascript (clue: need to support Blackberry browsers).

My intention was to use OAuth 2.0 with standard redirects, to get an access token with which to call the Graph API.

Once I have an access token, I was expecting something like

curl https://graph.facebook.com/me/likes?access_token={a-valid-access-token}&category=Website&url={url-encoding-of-url-to-like}

where the access token has the publish_stream permission granted to it. So to be more explicit:

curl https://graph.facebook.com/me/likes?access_token={a-valid-access-token}&category=Website&url=http%3A%2F%2Fogp.me%2F

That attempt returns me a 403 response, and I’ve not found anything else in the fine manual

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  1. Editorial Team

    The graph api does allow you to like a graph object (see Graph API Docs / Publishing) using:

    https://graph.facebook.com/OBJECT_ID/likes

    However the graph object must have an existing likes connection – and there’s currently no way of creating such a connection via the graph api.

    But if the like connection already exists you can get the pages graph object id using FQL:

    SELECT id FROM object_url WHERE url='http://youtargeturl.lnk'
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