How To Get Facebook App ID and Secret Keys?

Feb 28, 2013

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After creating a Facebook page where we will pull our data, we have to create an app to get an appId and appSecret keys. Those keys are required to use the Facebook PHP SDK and do our queries like pulling Facebook photos, events, videos, and feeds. Here’s a step by step tutorial on how to get those keys.

How To Get Facebook App ID and Secret Keys? — Facebook developer apps dashboard.

Step 1

Here’s the link where you would start: create a Facebook app. On the pop up, specify your app name (the name of your website or app) and app namespace (used for your Facebook app URL e.g., http://apps.facebook.com/yournamespace)

Step 2

You’ll be asked to enter a security code to verify that you’re a human and not a bot or malware that creates random Facebook apps. After entering the text in the box, click the “Continue” button.

Step 3

Congrats! now you can copy your Facebook appId and appSecret. See the arrows below.

Step 4

Prepare your App ID and App Secret keys, we’ll use it to get your access token, here’s how:

https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?client_id=YOUR_APP_ID&client_secret=YOUR_APP_SECRET&grant_type=client_credentials

Replace YOUR_APP_ID and YOUR_APP_SECRET with your own and run the link on the browser.

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6 responses to “How To Get Facebook App ID and Secret Keys?”

PleaseHelp

May 27, 2015

In which lines and files need to put? Where to put app id, where app secret?

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1. Mike Dalisay
  
  May 28, 2015
  
  Please elaborate. Which lines of what? I’m not sure what are you referring to… Thanks…
  
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Elohim

September 14, 2015

I’m looking to do something like this for someone else’s Fan Page, and bring their FB posts into their website. I’m assuming I can use my own AppID/Key, even though I’m not the owner of that page? Or do I need the owner of the page to go through the steps of generating an AppID/Key. Seems odd it would be so much work to pull in posts 🙂 Thanks!!

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1. Mike Dalisay
  
  September 14, 2015
  
  Hello @disqus_Q66BT4BQGi, what you want to do is possible without being the owner of the page. Our tutorial here will help you pull an FB page’s timeline feed to your website https://www.codeofaninja.com/2014/10/display-facebook-page-feed-on-wordpress-or-website.html
  
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  1. Elohim
    
    September 14, 2015
    
    Thank you, sir. I did play around with that tutorial last night and was able to get it to work 🙂 Thanks!!
    
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URBAN Streetlife

February 1, 2018

Hi! I love your work! I used to have my facebook gallery embed with your code. Then my fb app crash and now I can’t. Can you tell me what facebook permissions are required on the app to use it correctly? Thanks!!

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