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JavaScript

Posted by John Gu
John Gu
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Adding FB Login to a website (Javascript)

I'm trying to add FB login to my website. The documentation here (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login) was enough for me to set up a login button using the FB login.

My problem is, I have no idea how to access the user's information from Facebook. I don't need anything fancy, just the user's FB Id (as a way to uniquely identify the user), but I have no idea how to add it.

According to the documentation, I have to add the following (Javascript) code:

<script>
  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {
    FB.init({
      appId            : 'app-id',
      autoLogAppEvents : true,
      xfbml            : true,
      version          : 'v2.12'
    });

        FB.getLoginStatus(function(response) {
         if (response.status === 'connected') {

             var accessToken = response.authResponse.accessToken;

I added the code, and I have the "accessToken," but what I really need is a way to pull the user's FB Id, not his accessToken.