Is Facebook an OpenID provider?

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Jason picture Jason · Dec 1, 2009 · Viewed 49.6k times · Source

Is Facebook an OpenID provider? I know they are an OpenID supporter but do they allow people to authenticate with other sites via OpenID with their Facebook credentials?

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Adam Albrecht picture Adam Albrecht · Dec 1, 2009

No, they're not an OpenId provider. They use their own OpenID-like system called Facebook connect, which you can use to authenticate users on your site, among other features.

You can check it out here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login

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