facebook-js

Easy peasy facebook client for connect.

npm install facebook-js

Usage

facebook-js has three methods.

• getAuthorizeUrl(client_id, redirect_uri, options) Gets the url to facebook.
• getAccesToken(params, callback): Uses oAuth module to retrieve the access_token
• apiCall(http_method, path, params, callback): Does a call to facebook graph API.

Example using express.js

var express = require('express'),
    connect = require('connect'),
    facebookClient = require('./../')(
      'appID',
      'appSecret'
    ),
    app = express.createServer(
      connect.bodyDecoder(),
      connect.cookieDecoder(),
      connect.session()
    );

app.get('/', function (req, res) {
  res.redirect(facebookClient.getAuthorizeUrl({
    client_id: 'appID',
    redirect_uri: 'http://yourhost.com:3003/auth',
    scope: 'offline_access,publish_stream'
  }));
});

app.get('/auth', function (req, res) {
  facebookClient.getAccessToken({redirect_uri: 'http://yourhost.com:3003/auth', code: req.param('code')}, function (error, token) {
    res.render('client.jade', {locals: {token: token}});
  });
});

app.post('/message', function (req, res) {
  facebookClient.apiCall('POST', '/me/feed',
    {access_token: req.param('access_token'), message: req.param('message')},
    function (error, result) {
      res.render('done.jade');
    }
  );
});

app.listen(3003);

Test

To test and see this module working:

• Install the module: npm install facebook-js
• Clone this repo and open the test folder
• Add a host to your hosts file 127.0.0.1 yourhost.com
• Create a facebook app with the url pointing to http://yourhost.com:3003/
• Set up the appID and the appSecret of your facebook app on the client.js file
• Run it! node test/client.js
• Open your browser at yourhost.com:3003