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RESTful Facebook graph calls with curl.md

Acquiring an Access Token

First we need an access token with some permissions sufficient for the calls we are gonna make.
Let's just use the basic permissions about us.
To acquire an access token use this tool

GET reqeust

Following command should return {"name":user_name,"id":user_id}

curl -X GET "https://graph.facebook.com/me?access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN"

Following command gets the previous return explicitly

curl -X GET "https://graph.facebook.com/me?fields=id,name&access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN"

POST request

Following command should only return {"success": true}

curl -X POST https://graph.facebook.com/me -d "access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN"
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