How to get an access token using C# SDK

Question

I updated the Facebook SDK to 6.0.10 and some code that used to work is not working anymore. I used to post on users\' wall use the method below.

The class FacebookC

Answer 1

I have just started using this Facebook library yesterday and thought the lack of the ability to give me the access token without passing from JavaScript was a major shortcoming. Here is a helper that can get the access token. I hope this helps anyone who has had the same frustrations as myself. I think this should all work fine. I had something similar working on a website before I discovered the Facebook NuGet which has worked fine for approximately a year now.

If there's a better way please let me know.

public class FacebookHelper
{
    private string _appId;
    private string _appSecret;
    private string _accessToken;

    public string AccessToken
    {
        get
        {
            if (_accessToken == null)
                GetAccessToken();

            return _accessToken;
        }
        set { _accessToken = value; }
    }

    public FacebookHelper(string appId, string appSecret)
    {
        this._appId = appId;
        this._appSecret = appSecret;
    }

    public string GetAccessToken()
    {
        var facebookCookie = HttpContext.Current.Request.Cookies["fbsr_" + _appId];
        if (facebookCookie != null && facebookCookie.Value != null)
        {
            string jsoncode = System.Text.ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetString(FromBase64ForUrlString(facebookCookie.Value.Split(new char[] { '.' })[1]));
            var tokenParams = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(GetAccessToken((string)JObject.Parse(jsoncode)["code"]));
            _accessToken = tokenParams["access_token"];
            return _accessToken;
        }
        else
            return null;

       // return DBLoginCall(username, passwordHash, cookieToken, cookieTokenExpires, args.LoginType == LoginType.Logout, null);
    }

    private string GetAccessToken(string code)
    {
        //Notice the empty redirect_uri! And the replace on the code we get from the cookie.
        string url = string.Format("https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?client_id={0}&redirect_uri={1}&client_secret={2}&code={3}", _appId, "", _appSecret, code.Replace("\"", ""));

        System.Net.HttpWebRequest request = System.Net.WebRequest.Create(url) as System.Net.HttpWebRequest;
        System.Net.HttpWebResponse response = null;

        try
        {
            using (response = request.GetResponse() as System.Net.HttpWebResponse)
            {
                System.IO.StreamReader reader = new System.IO.StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream());

                string retVal = reader.ReadToEnd();
                return retVal;
            }
        }
        catch
        {
            return null;
        }
    }

    private byte[] FromBase64ForUrlString(string base64ForUrlInput)
    {
        int padChars = (base64ForUrlInput.Length % 4) == 0 ? 0 : (4 - (base64ForUrlInput.Length % 4));
        StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder(base64ForUrlInput, base64ForUrlInput.Length + padChars);
        result.Append(String.Empty.PadRight(padChars, '='));
        result.Replace('-', '+');
        result.Replace('_', '/');
        return Convert.FromBase64String(result.ToString());
    }
}