Facebook C# SDK and Access Token

Question

I'd like to be able to authenticate myself (my profile, not just my app) on my own web application using the Facebook C# SDK. Using the Graph API, I can get an access token, but that token does not seem to work properly with the Facebook C# as it seems to be stateless.

The error that is thrown is:

(OAuthException) An active access token must be used to query information about the current user.

I've poked around the Facebook C# SDK and documentation and most of the info I'm seeing is to redirect users to a login page which is not what I'm looking for.

Does anyone have a good sample of auto-logging in myself so I can pull up my own information?

TIA

Answer 1

When you say "yourself" do you mean the app or your actual facebook user?

If it's just your app, you can get an access token by POSTing to this URL:

https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?grant_type=client_credentials&client_id=APP_ID_HERE&client_secret=APP_SECRET_HERE

You can use this access token to perform actions on behalf of your users if they have authorized your app to do so.