Facebook Open Graph API Examples - How to get the access token?

Question

Facebook has some great-looking examples of Open Graph requests here:

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/examples/

The problem is that since I don't have an access token, most of the examples just return

{    "error": {       "message": "An active access token must be used to query information about the current user.",       "type": "OAuthException",       "code": 2500    } } 

I understand access tokens, but how do I get the token so that I can experiment with these example requests?

Answer 1

As long as you only want to test...

Use the Graph API Explorer to generate a token with the permissions you want.

Don't hesitate to select all of them.

Then, just copy/paste the token at the end of each graph.facebook.com URL. For instance:

https://graph.facebook.com/v1.0/me/friends?access_token=<ACCESS_TOKEN> 

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The day you want to get the access taken for an app...

Start by reading this doc.