Question

what I need: upload photos to user’s fan page as a page, using an app for that

what I have: my website which does uploading, and a user, who created fan page and application, and that app’s id and secret

what I do:

1. call FB.init() with that appId

2. call FB.login() with manage_pages,publish_stream permissions – this prompts FB login popup where user is asked to login and then to authenticate the app. As the result I get app access token.

3. Send request to https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?client_id=APP_ID&client_secret=APP_SECRET&grant_type=fb_exchange_token&fb_exchange_token=TOKEN_FROM_ABOVE to get extended app token valid for 2 months (and therefore page tokens will be extended as well as described here)

4. Send request to https://graph.facebook.com/me/accounts?access_token=TOKEN_FROM_ABOVE to get a list of pages user manages, and let user to choose the page he wants to publish to.

5. That gives me PAGE access token I can use to publish photos to user’s FAN page using /albumId/photos/ API call.

what is the problem:

the “via” link in the photo redirects user to MY website (where user has authenticated his app to upload to his page):

that is because I had to ask user to enter my website’s URL in app settings, otherwise Facebook login dialog will complain:

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SO MY QUESTIONS ARE:

1. Am I doing this right? am I missing something probably?

2. If I am – then how can I get that “via” link to link to user’s website?

Thank you.

Answer 1

I ended up adding client’s website URL as a query string parameter into “Site URL” field in the application settings – and then I need to modify my site’s backend to do redirects:

http://mysite.com/?redirect=http://client-site.com