How to get user access token from Facebook API with curl

Question

I am writing a program that retrieves our marketing data from facebook. the program i am writing can only use curl to retrieve the user access token and there is no UI, the only info I found is to call this url

Curl('https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/authorize?client_id=1534273216862757&response_type=token&redirect_uri=https://www.facebook.com/connect/login_success.html','GET')

However, when I send this, i get back the entire html of the redirect page and no token.

do you know of another way I can accomplish this?

thanks

Solution

You can only get a User Token with user interaction, not by curl. It does not work like that, and it should not work like that.

You can use an Extended User Token though, it is valid for 60 days. After that, the user has to refresh it.

More information about Tokens:

• https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/access-tokens
• http://www.devils-heaven.com/facebook-access-tokens/