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Asked: 2026-05-16T00:14:59+00:00

I can make a search query using these tokens here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/api#search in the links:

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I can make a search query using these tokens here:

http://developers.facebook.com/docs/api#search

in the links:

https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=mark&type=user&access_token=2227470867|2.3eR1b7yrD6oU8Odh0PEhZA__.3600.1279843200-100001317997096|yDCYeMeuUisyjC7x5k_nuU3DjT0. (<-this token expires within hours)

However I cannot make search using my own tokens that I get from here:

https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?type=client_cred&client_id=114187648630446&client_secret=e6c82f822a35ed2821d91c8537931917

access_token=114187648630446|vwcRSfa8CotC7rdZ1YnvsqqWMIY.

What is wrong? How I’ll get tokens like this one: https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=mark&type=user&access_token=2227470867|2.3eR1b7yrD6oU8Odh0PEhZA__.3600.1279843200-100001317997096|yDCYeMeuUisyjC7x5k_nuU3DjT0

(note: I do not care about my secret keys etc etc, that is Facebook’s business, I want it work, I’m trying to make a simple search, it passed 2 days since I started, please don’t tell me to read developer’s page because they write it to themselves, I do not understand why my tokens do not work, what I miss, their help pages are not helpfull, so I’m asking you here)

And there is no something like user authentication. It is like http://www.spokeo.com

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  1. Editorial Team

    The long access tokens are the session tokens, and are used for operations that require a logged-in user. The short access tokens (the ones returned from oauth/access_token?type=client_cred) can only be used for a limited set of operations. Searching of user names requires a session token.

    In order to do searching of user names, you’ll need to use either the web flow (oauth/authorize) or, possibly, the desktop application flow (oauth/authorize?type=user_agent). Either one, however, will require the Facebook authentication dialog to come up.

    You might just let the user login — oftentimes, the user is already logged into Facebook, so authorizing through Facebook isn’t a big deal.

    (Oddly, even though name searches require a session token, the Facebook directory is publically available and can be crawled).

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