How to show facebook feed messages from my site without access_token?

Question

I have a facebook site (site, not profil wall) and would like to display the message feed on a webpage. This already works fine if I use

https://graph.facebook.com/177610425663218/feed

But I need an access_token for this. Using the Graph Explorer I can generate a temporary token.

I know I can create an OAuth but I don't want every visitor of my webpage to login into facebook just to see the feeds. There must be another way... Maybe using PHP instead of Javascript?

Answer 1

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/ provides a list of all plugins that you can embed. However, this does not work if you want to display feed to non-fb-logged-in users.

To solved your problem - have a server side script that accesses this feed and displays it. If this feed is from a FB page, then you will need an access token with "manage_pages" permissions. Using that, you can get the contents using the following (PHP) code:

$response=file_get_contents("https://graph.facebook.com/".$id."/feed&access_token=".$facebook_access_token);
$response_array=json_decode($response,true);
// $id: Page ID

You can also customize this query by adding pagination parameters like since,limit,until etc. Please refer to https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/ for documentation.

This approach allows you the following advantages:

• Your Access Token is safe on your server and not visible to public.
• Your feed can be seen by even a non-logged in user.
• You can customize the look and feel of your feed since you control the UI.

Disadvantages:

• Needs you to code and actively maintain a piece of code that does nothing except act like a proxy. Everytime FB changes the structure of it's object, you will need to change this code.

Answer 2

You can use https://www.facebook.com/feeds/page.php?id=<your-page-id>&format=json This returns a json object and requires no access token.

You can also use different formats such as xml and rss20.

Hope this helps.