'Like' a page using Facebook Graph API

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Tom Wells picture Tom Wells · Jun 17, 2010 · Viewed 97.4k times · Source

Using the Graph API I'd like to be able to have an authorized user "like" a page.

I tried posting the following

https://graph.facebook.com/${PAGE_ID}/likes?access_token=${ACCESS_TOKEN}

And I get an HTTP error 500 accompanied by "Invalid post_id parameter" in the JSON response body. Looks like the /likes resource is suited to liking a wall post and not a page. How do I get this to work with a page?

Answer

bkaid picture bkaid · Jun 20, 2012

Facebook has announced support for liking URL's outside of Facebook by using the official built-in Like action. You need to have publish_actions permissions. The graph url for this is: https://graph.facebook.com/[User FB ID]/og.likes?object=OG_OBJECT_URL&access_token=USER_ACCESS_TOKEN

However, you cannot use this to like a page on Facebook currently, as the documentation states:

For Facebook Pages or websites that do not integrate with Facebook Authentication, developers should continue to use the Like button social plugin.

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