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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parsing or identifying data
anonymous
May 11 2010, 00:30:29 UTC
great tool, thanks. I realize why you wouldn't grab all info on page load, but it would be nice to be able to see the results all on one page, or even identify by color or asterisk or something which properties are not empty (ie, data is available)
Even ajax to get data over time...
Not suggesting you should feel obligated to do this, thank you for your effort so far.
Thank you for making this, and having it open source.
I'm curious about how you're generating/refreshing the access tokens. Since they expire after an hour or two, you must be automatically refreshing them somehow. I'm speculating that you could do it with a browser that's set to refresh every so often, or possibly with a cron job?? Are you able to share your code for this?
Auth token solution
anonymous
August 5 2010, 22:32:26 UTC
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
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Thanks for making this. While testing it out out, some of the results did not seem accurate. I put in the ids of two random people (that i'm not connected with)and compared what's visible on thier profiles to what your API browser shows. Both have books and movies publicly visible too all yet the api browser does not show them. Unless I'm confused, seems like these should show up in the browser.
The API Browser only shows what's returned through the API. The information shown on a Facebook profile page doesn't necessarily match what is provided through the API.
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Even ajax to get data over time...
Not suggesting you should feel obligated to do this, thank you for your effort so far.
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"error": {
"type": "OAuthException",
"message": "You must use https:// when passing an access token"
Why is it so inconsistent. I can't tell what it actually is publishing because it only works occasionally.
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I'm curious about how you're generating/refreshing the access tokens. Since they expire after an hour or two, you must be automatically refreshing them somehow. I'm speculating that you could do it with a browser that's set to refresh every so often, or possibly with a cron job?? Are you able to share your code for this?
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