Facebook – Verify Facebook Access Token for specific App

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I need to verify that users on my iPhone app are actually logged in to my Facebook app. I'm able to verify their user id by retrieving it with their Access token:

https://graph.facebook.com/me?fields=id&access_token=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

The security issue I foresee is that, they can send me any valid access token, and it will return their user id. I need to also validate this token is for my specific app. Is there a way to return the Application ID in this request to validate that?

Best Answer

Facebook now provides support for debugging an Access Token. You can retrieve the information related to a particular Access Token by issuing a GET request to the debug_token connection. Something like:

GET /debug_token?
     input_token={input-token}&
     access_token={access-token}

Where, input-token: the access token you want to get information about and access-token: your app access token or a valid user access token from a developer of the app

And this will return the following information:

{
        "data": {
            "app_id": 000000000000000, 
            "application": "Social Cafe", 
            "expires_at": 1352419328, 
            "is_valid": true, 
            "issued_at": 1347235328, 
            "scopes": [
                "email", 
                "publish_actions"
            ], 
            "user_id": 1207059
        }
    }

You can get more information about it in the Getting Info about Tokens and Debugging reference.

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