In the past few months we have been working to bring the Graph API up to parity with REST API, significantly improve our Graph API documentation, and publish resources and sample apps to make it easier to write apps against the API. As part of these efforts, we are launching the Graph API Explorer.
The Graph API Explorer makes it easy to get started with the Graph API and test the API as you program against it and build your app.
The Explorer helps you to do the following:
access_token
with the specific permissions necessary to access the data you need to optimize your app for users. The ‘Select Permissions’ dialog allows you to select the specific user data, friends’ data or extended permissions needed. The Explorer then shows you the same permissions dialog your users will see when you request these permissions in your production app. HTTP GET
, POST
and DELETE
to get, create, update or delete objects.
{name, value}
pairs that you want to send as parameters to the API. For example to create a new event you can post to /me/events
with the required name
and start_time
fields as parameters, using an access_token
with the create_event
extended permission. id
in the formatted result. For example clicking on the id
of the event object returned after creating an event will show you details of the event you just created. Please note the Graph API Explorer only shows you the data you have access to see (data that is public or belongs to you or your friends) and that you give the Graph API Explorer permission to access on your behalf. The Explorer is simply an application built on Facebook Platform that uses the Graph API with the permissions you grant it, to help you explore objects and connections in the graph.
We hope you enjoy exploring your Facebook Graph with the Graph API Explorer. Please share your feedback with us in the comments below.