How can you get Facebook Access Token?

Blaszard picture Blaszard · Mar 8, 2017 · Viewed 25.8k times · Source

I'm now trying pynder, but it requries you to get a facebook ID and access token.

The facebook ID is what each user has in its own page, such as https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=YOUR_ID if I understand it correctly.

However, I don't understand how I get the access token. I first tried to get with this tutorial, but since it is outdated, the actual pop-up page showed two types of ID: Get Use Access Token and Get Access Token. So I registered Facebook Developer program.

Then, I didn't know which to pick, but I tried both anyway. The page didn't show read_stream, by the way. However, I didn't get a correct response when running curl:

curl -X POST https://api.gotinder.com/auth --data '{"facebook_token": fb_token, "facebook_id": fb_user_id}'

This issued an error: {"code":401,"error":"FacebookTokenRequired"}.

How can I get the correct access token to run the program?

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