Facebook Connect

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Welcome to Facebook Connect

Facebook Connect is a powerful set of APIs for developers that lets users bring their identity and connections everywhere.

If you're just starting out:

  • Familiarize yourself with the business benefits of Facebook Connect and learn more about some leading examples by visiting our Facebook Connect page.
  • Become a Fan of our Facebook Connect page to get updates on the best examples.

Once you get started developing:

Start Building

Start learning the basics of Facebook application development and a get technical overview of Facebook Connect. Then visit some sites already using Facebook Connect and see what plugins and social widgets you can easily add to your site.

Authorizing Users

Learn the ins and outs of authenticating and connecting your users' accounts on Facebook and your site.

Reading Data from Facebook

After you authenticate your users, you can start accessing their profile data, friends, and streams. Read about identity, privacy, and providing social context to your site.

Sending Communications to/through Facebook

Get social distribution from your site through Facebook using requests, notifications, and publishing to users' streams.

Building Rich Features with Facebook Connect

Add deep social functionality to your site including integrating social comments into your blog or site, showing recent user activity, and filtering information with social context.

Integrating into Facebook

Integrate your site into Facebook with profile boxes, tabs, Publishers, and a Facebook Page.

Insights and Analytics

Monitor usage and statistics for your site -- see how often your users publish to Facebook, how successful your requests and notifications, and learn about allocations.

  • Monitoring usage and statistics of your application (Coming Soon)
  • Tracking publishing and clicks-per-share (Coming Soon)
  • Tracking success of requests and notifications (Coming Soon)
  • Understanding allocations (Coming Soon)

Under the Hood

Learn the details of what's going on behind the scenes with Facebook Connect and how it interacts with your site or application

Special Topics

More advanced topics that you may not need to understand when you get started

Reference

Come here for tutorials and reference information about Facebook Platform -- the JavaScript client library, the RESTful API, FQL, XFBML.

Technical Reference

Tutorials

Policies and Guidelines

reference