How to ask Facebook users for permissions using JavaScript API
- December 14th, 2009
- Posted in Tech Recipes
- By Germán Medina
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In this short post I’ll write the JavaScript code required to ask users to grant stream reading, stream publishing and offline access permissions for your application.
var read = "read_stream";
var offline = "offline_access";
var publish = "publish_stream";
FB_RequireFeatures(["Api"], function() {
FB.Facebook.init("API_KEY", "xd_receiver.htm");
var api = FB.Facebook.apiClient;
FB.Connect.requireSession(function() {
var session = api.get_session();
api.users_hasAppPermission(read, function(hasRead) {
api.users_hasAppPermission(publish, function(hasPublish) {
api.users_hasAppPermission(offline, function(hasOffline) {
var permissions = [];
if (!hasRead) permissions.push(read);
if (!hasPublish) permissions.push(publish);
if (!hasOffline) permissions.push(offline);
if (permissions.length > 0) {
FB.Connect.showPermissionDialog(permissions.join(","), function(authorized) {
alert("Authorized: " + authorized);
});
}
else {
alert("Has Permissions");
}
});
});
});
});
});
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