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Tim Uckun  
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 More options Apr 19 2011, 4:41 am
From: Tim Uckun <timuc...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 20:41:43 +1200
Local: Tues, Apr 19 2011 4:41 am
Subject: Re: trying to get facebook insight data
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> Then I think instead using a user's access token,
> you might need to use the so called "secret_access_token"
> instead. I don't know where did Facebook document this,
> but say your application id is 123, then you might want to
> do this in rest-graph:

>    RestGraph.new.get("123/insights", {}, :secret => true)

> This way, rest-graph would try to use secret_access_token
> instead of the normal access token. You can take a look at
> your secret access token by calling RestGraph#secret_access_token.
> The definition is:

>    def secret_access_token
>      "#{app_id}|#{secret}"
>    end

> Many Facebook API needs this access token instead the
> normal one. I think where data you want to fetch is not
> related to any user but your applications, you'll need this.

I found a web site that says this

Obtaining the Authorization Code

To use the Graph API, you must obtain an access token with the
read_insights permission. There is an important authentication
difference between application insights and insights from pages or
external websites:

You can use either a user access token (on behalf of the application
owner) or an application access token (on behalf of the application
itself) to get insights about an application.
You can only use a user access token (on behalf of the page owner) to
get insights about a page or an external website.

As far as I can tell the method you outlined using app_id and secret
is to get an application access token but that won't give you
permission to access the insights. In order to get the insights I need
a user access token and it seems like you are saying there is no way
to get that without physical user involvement.

Am I reading that right? Surely there has to be a way to get that data
without having a user actually interact with a browser.


 
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