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Asked: 2026-06-09T03:54:39+00:00

Is it possible for me to authenticate an iOS App without user interaction to

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Is it possible for me to authenticate an iOS App without user interaction to the level where it can make Facebook requests for Page data?

For example, in an app for a musician, I would like to be able to make facebook requests for the musician’s artist page including wall posts. I could then get the raw data for their page and style it however I please. This wouldn’t require a user to log in and session authentication would be done asynchronously by the app itself, using embedded credentials.

I’d like to use the SDK but am thinking this would require manual OAuth Access Token requests and posts.

Thanks for the help!

UPDATE:

To clarify, I am curious about the possibility of the following:

1) App loads and makes a request for an OAuth Access Token using credentials baked into the App
2) App can then make requests to facebook for feed data from a predetermined page feed
3) None of this requires any user interaction or bounces the application to mobile safari, etc.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Ok – I figured this out. Feel pretty silly that I didn’t know you could do this.

    You can request an access token for an app id & secret. This will allow you to make public data requests that require an access token.

    TO REQUEST ACCESS TOKEN:
    https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?grant_type=client_credentials&client_id=11111111&client_secret=9999999999

    Then, simply use the returned Access Token in your Feed Request:

    https://graph.facebook.com/musicpage/feed?access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN

    If this is against TOS or deprecated – please let me know. For now this seems like the solution!

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