Question

Im trying to use javascript to determine if a user is a fan of a page that i’ve created on my account.

I found the facebook graph api which looks like just what i want. However it appears for some functionality i need an access token.

Here it says I can just http get my /user_id/accounts page with the manage_pages permission and it will list the access token for each page.

But when i submit https://graph.facebook.com/myuserid/accounts&scope=manage_pages i get “OAuthException : Access token is required to request this resource.”

I also tried from this answer, but then i get “An error occurred, please try later”.

Any suggestions most welcome.

Answer 1

You will need an access token to retrieve any information that is not public on facebook.
You can read up on this page about authenticating a user. Once your user is authenticated you can retrieve the access token and use it in your future requests (for that user)..

eg:

https://graph.facebook.com/{YOUR_USER_ID}/accounts&access_token={YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN}