I'm trying to build a google chrome extension, a use case requires that users can login with Facebook and share via a post to their Facebook wall.
The correct application flow would be as such:
My major hick-ups are logging in with Facebook, and getting the data back to the extension.
I've created a Facebook app, done most of the coding specific to the app, I'm trying to keep the app just javascript (but I can add in php if there is no other way), tried using the standard Facebook javascript, and tried using the desktop client for Facebook.
Anyone else gone through this process of connecting Google Chrome Extensions and Facebook login before?
As a final note, I'm trying to with with Parse for this project, so if you have any extra insite on that it would be great too!
A good example of what I'm trying to accomplish is similar to what Any.do https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/any.do?utm_source=chrome-ntp-icon
I had this kind of problem lately ;). It's a bit complicated, but I'll try to explain it in the simplest way.
Put somewhere in your extension (maybe options page) link "login with facebook" that redirects to: https://www.facebook.com/dialog/oauth?client_id=<APP_ID>&response_type=token&scope=<PERMISSIONS>&redirect_uri=http://www.facebook.com/connect/login_success.html
When someone clicks on this link, will be asked to give permissions, etc (facebook page). If someone would agree, the page will load: http://www.facebook.com/connect/login_success.html
with parameters access_token
and expires_in
in address.
Now, background page should have script like this:
var successURL = 'www.facebook.com/connect/login_success.html';
function onFacebookLogin(){
if (!localStorage.getItem('accessToken')) {
chrome.tabs.query({}, function(tabs) { // get all tabs from every window
for (var i = 0; i < tabs.length; i++) {
if (tabs[i].url.indexOf(successURL) !== -1) {
// below you get string like this: access_token=...&expires_in=...
var params = tabs[i].url.split('#')[1];
// in my extension I have used mootools method: parseQueryString. The following code is just an example ;)
var accessToken = params.split('&')[0];
accessToken = accessToken.split('=')[1];
localStorage.setItem('accessToken', accessToken);
chrome.tabs.remove(tabs[i].id);
}
}
});
}
}
chrome.tabs.onUpdated.addListener(onFacebookLogin);
And this is how you get access token from facebook. Now you can send requests to https://graph.facebook.com.
Hope I helped ;)
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