Programmatically getting an access token for using the Facebook Graph API

Question

I am trying to put together a bash or python script to play with the facebook graph API. Using the API looks simple, but I\'m having trouble setting up curl in my bash scrip

Answer 1

Easy! Just use facebook-sdk.

import facebook

app_id = 'YOUR_APP_ID'
app_secret = 'YOUR_APP_SECRET'

graph = facebook.GraphAPI()

# exactly what you're after ;-)
access_token = graph.get_app_access_token(app_id, app_secret)