Facebook OAuth with Sinatra
This MOSTLY is working, so, here's what I found when trying to connect to Facebook with OAuth. It needs some serious refactoring because a lot of this was done in an "investigative" trial and error way. It also looks like Facebook have improved their docs on this since I was first looking at them...
First, you need to initiate a connection:
get '/:blog_name/facebook/oauth/create' do redirect "https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/authorize?client_id=##FACEBOOK API KEY##&redirect_uri=##CALLBACK URL##&scope=publish_stream,user_status,user_photos,user_about_me" end
where ##FACEBOOK API KEY##
= your applications API key (mine is a 32 digit hex value) and ##CALLBACK URL##
= the URL that will be processing the next step. Also, the scope value let's you get more access to the user's account. Check their extended permissions doc for more info.
Next, you need to process what comes back from Facebook. I am stashing what comes back in the DB (the FacebookOauthToken
model). Also using the Mechanize
gem which is pretty silly. Some of the code below is specific to my app, so ignore those bits...
get '/:blog_name/facebook/oauth/callback' do
if !params['code'].blank?
url="https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token"
client_id="client_id=##CLIENT ID##"
client_secret="client_secret=## CLIENT SECRET ##"
code="code=#{URI.escape(params['code'])}"
redirect_uri="redirect_uri=http://example.org/#{@blog.url_name}/facebook/oauth/callback"
url="#{url}?#{client_id}&#{client_secret}&#{code}&#{redirect_uri}"
begin
res=open(url)
rescue
flash[:error]="There was a problem connecting to Facebook"
redirect "/#{@blog.url_name}/"
end
read=res.read
access_token=CGI.parse(read)['access_token']
if !access_token.blank?
@blog.facebook_oauth_token = FacebookOauthToken.new(:access_token=>access_token,:blog_name=>params[:blog_name])
if @blog.save
begin
a=Mechanize.new
res=a.get("https://graph.facebook.com/me/?access_token=#{access_token}")
@blog.facebook_oauth_token.facebook_id=JSON(res.body)['id']
@blog.save!
rescue
flash[:error]="There was a problem getting information from Facebook"
redirect "/#{@blog.url_name}/"
end
flash[:notice]="Facebook connection created!"
redirect "/#{@blog.url_name}/"
else
flash[:error]="There was a problem saving Facebook connection"
redirect "/#{@blog.url_name}/"
end
else
flash[:error]="There was a problem making Facebook connection"
redirect "/#{@blog.url_name}/"
end
else
flash[:error]="There was a problem connecting to Facebook"
redirect "/#{@blog.url_name}/"
end
end
Where ##CLIENT ID##
= your Application ID (mine is a 12 digit numeric value) and ## CLIENT SECRET ##
= your Application Secret (mine is a 32 digit hex value).
Once you have an access_token
you should be able to make calls to URLs like this: "https://graph.facebook.com/me/?access_token=#{access_token}"
. The /me
path is the connected user's data and I'm grabbing their Facebook ID from the returned JSON for use elsewhere.