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

s29 has the correct answer but leaves some steps to solve. The following script demonstrates a working script for acquiring an access token using the Facebook SDK:

__requires__ = ['facebook-sdk']

import os

import facebook


def get_app_access_token():
    client = facebook.GraphAPI()
    return client.get_app_access_token(
        os.environ['FACEBOOK_APP_ID'],
        os.environ['FACEBOOK_APP_SECRET'],
    )


__name__ == '__main__' and print(get_app_access_token())

This script expects the FACEBOOK_APP_ID and FACEBOOK_APP_SECRET environment variables are set to the values for your app. Feel free to adapt that technique to load those values from a different source.

You must first install the Facebook SDK (pip install facebook-sdk; python get-token.py) or use another tool like rwt to invoke the script (rwt -- get-token.py).