Question

So using the Graph API from Facebook, it gives directions on how to post to a users news feed. They give this code to do it:

FB.ui({ method: 'feed', 
            message: 'Facebook for Websites is super-cool'});

However, this opens a dialog window and let’s the user modify the feed, and then click publish, etc. How can I post to a users Facebook feed (assuming they have logged in via my site and accepting the publish permission), WITHOUT using this pop-up dialog, and just have it post something when they perform an action on my site, without them knowing.

Is this possible, or does that dialog HAVE to appear everytime?

Answer 1

If you don’t want a dialog window, then don’t use the FB.ui methods. You would then just call the graph API via the javascript sdk:.

If you have an authenticated user with the publish_stream permission, and want to publish a new story to their feed:

var body = 'Reading Connect JS documentation';
FB.api('/me/feed', 'post', { message: body }, function(response) {
  if (!response || response.error) {
    alert('Error occured');
  } else {
    alert('Post ID: ' + response.id);
  }
});