Introducing the Apigee Facebook API Console
We're really excited to be launching the Apigee Facebook API Console today - a free tool that allows Facebook developers to easily learn, debug, interact with and develop on the Graph API. Here's a quick demo:
The console makes working with the Facebook API easier, faster, more social. We think of it as a "view source" or browser for the Graph API—it lets you easily send and review requests and responses, learn the structure quickly, share what you are seeing with a "share" feature, and "crawl" the graph by jumping from object ID to object ID. It shows you what your program will see… and what other programs can see about you.
There are a few features we added that make working with the console especially delightful. We support Facebook's implementation of the OAuth 2.0 draft specification, which means you can log in to the console with your Facebook credentials, or you can stay unauthenticated to see what information the API makes public. We also implemented an "AwesomeBar" (thanks Firefox!) which lets you start typing a request, method or object—it will make suggestions and autocomplete for you! The Graph API also has a few unique features, including file attachment and customer header parameters, and we let you view and interact with those too.
Facebook has over a million developers and hundreds of thousands of applications in its ecosystem, a powerful example of the innovation and growth that APIs can fuel. We have lots of Facebook developers on our platform and wanted to make something that could help them out—combined with our Twitter API console, we now support two of the top social platforms in the world.
And don't forget that you can also use us to get API analytics, like response time, usage, geolocation, and error rates, for your Facebook apps. You can sign up at app.apigee.com/sign_up. Another tool you might find helpful is our API Debugger, which you can use with any API to record and review requests and responses and dig into errors. You can access the debugger from your Apigee log-in page.
Check it out and let us know what you think, and of course, if you have any problems or suggestions, just drop us an @apigee on Twitter or in our support community.



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