FAQ about the Facebook API Browser.

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Here are answers to some common questions about the Facebook API Browser. For details on the exposure of users' event lists, which appears to now have been fixed, see a previous post.

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Auth token solution

[anonymous]

I figured out a solution to authenticating. I ended up using the facebook php sdk and added a function called getFbookAuth() and it simply logs into facebook under a dummy account and screen-scrapes the auth token.

All you should need to do is replace your dummy account login where the username and password go.
Here's the code:

private function getFbookAuth()
{
$authToken='';
define('POSTURL', 'https://login.facebook.com/login.php?login_attempt=1');
define('POSTVARS', 'charset_test=€,´,€,´,水,Д,Є&next=http://developers.facebook.com/docs/api&return_session=0&legacy_return=1&display=&session_key_only=0&trynum=1&lsd=Nj7E1&email=//***USERNAME HERE***//&pass=//***PASSWORD HERE***//&persistent=0&login=Login');

$ch = curl_init(POSTURL);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST ,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER , 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080702 Firefox/2.0.0.16 Paros/3.2.13");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR , "facebookcookies");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "facebookcookies");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS ,POSTVARS);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION ,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER ,0); // DO NOT RETURN HTTP HEADERS
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER ,1); // RETURN THE CONTENTS OF THE CALL
$Rec_Data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$dom = new DOMDocument();
@$dom->loadHTML($Rec_Data);
$xpath = new DOMXPath($dom);
$hrefs = $xpath->evaluate("/html//body//div//a");
for ($i = 0; $i < $hrefs->length; $i++)
{
$href = $hrefs->item($i);
$url = $href->getAttribute('href');
if(strpos($url, "access_token="))
{
$url = explode("access_token=", $url);
$authToken = $url[1];
break;
}
}
return $authToken;
}

//END CODE

Cheers!