Facebook Graph API Development with Flash

Time for action – requesting an access token with the browser

Open your browser and head to https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/authorize?client_id=«insert_application_id» (replace «insert_application_id» with your application's Application ID).

You'll get the following error:

{
   "error": {
      "type": "OAuthException",
      "message": "Missing redirect_uri parameter."
   }
}

Facebook won't just output the access token; it wants to redirect the browser to another web page, and pass the access token to that page. At the moment, this isn't very useful. Our Flash application is running as a standalone SWF and is not embedded in a page — so we'll use a quick workaround.

Registering a redirect URI with our application

Go to your application's Settings (go to http://www.facebook.com/developers ...