Facebook

Facebook works similar to Twitter but it’s simpler to setup and redirect URL is passed as a parameter when issuing an authorization. Further documentation at Facebook development resources:

  • Register a new application at Facebook App Creation, and

  • fill App Id and App Secret values in values:

    FACEBOOK_APP_ID
    FACEBOOK_API_SECRET
    
  • Define FACEBOOK_EXTENDED_PERMISSIONS to get extra permissions from facebook. NOTE: to get users’ email addresses, you must request the ‘email’ permission:

    FACEBOOK_EXTENDED_PERMISSIONS = ['email']
    

    Take into account that Facebook doesn’t return user email by default, this setting is needed if email is required:

    FACEBOOK_EXTENDED_PERMISSIONS = ['email']
    
  • Define FACEBOOK_PROFILE_EXTRA_PARAMS to pass extra parameters to https://graph.facebook.com/me when gathering the user profile data, like:

    FACEBOOK_PROFILE_EXTRA_PARAMS = {'locale': 'ru_RU'}
    

If you define a redirect URL in Facebook setup page, be sure to not define http://127.0.0.1:8000 or http://localhost:8000 because it won’t work when testing. Instead I define http://myapp.com and setup a mapping on /etc/hosts or use dnsmasq.

If you need to perform authentication from Facebook Canvas application, take a look to Facebook Canvas Application Authentication.

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