Facebook Node

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Input Node

• New status (posted by you or one in which you are tagged)
• New photo (posted by you or one in which you are tagged)
• New link
• Profile change

Query

• Fetch photo
• Fetch album contents

Outputs

• Upload photo to an album
  • node options
    • album
    • localFilename - local filename containing the content to be uploaded
  • msg options
    • localFilename - local filename containing the content to be uploaded
    • payload - the content to be uploaded (localFilename takes priority)
    • delete - if set, the remote file will be deleted from the album
    • photo_id - used to identify the photo to be deleted

Authentication

Users must register their own app at https://developers.facebook.com/ and paste the required tokens into the node. The user must then do the oauth in the browser to get a short-term access token. This can be exchanged for a long-term (60-day) access token. The long-term token must be refreshed but the user is expected to be available to confirm if required. Status messages can only be posted using short-term access tokens.

Notes

Test users may be created see https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.1/test-user
Access tokens are described at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/access-tokens
There are two main candidates for node wrappers for the API:

• https://github.com/Thuzi/facebook-node-sdk
• https://github.com/criso/fbgraph