Question

I develop flash websites that feature posts from a Facebook page. Since I’m not accessing a visitor’s account, I don’t want them to go through the oauth process. I only want one feed in Json form, but that feed is a page and not a specific user. I’ve gotten around this by writing a script that I visit to grant an offline_access token. I use that token to access the one feed I need. On page load, I use the graph API Json URL to get the feed and parse the data in flash.

Now that offline_access is going away, I’m trying to find the best way to access the feed in raw json form that will work in flash.

I have read this page (http://developers.facebook.com/roadmap/offline-access-removal/), and can’t find a scenario that helps me as all flows require a user to access an app of some kind. Does this change mean that I can no longer access a page feed without the process being transparent to the visitor? If need be I can be asked to be an admin of the pages I need access to, if that helps.

Answer 1

That document outlines all your options –

• If acting as the page itself you can get a token which won’t expire – Scenario 5 in the document
• If acting on behalf as a user you need them to come back at least every 60 days – Scenario 2 or 3 in the document