Trying to do a simple GET HTTP request on the Facebook API with rest_client but it's not accepting the url, even though the URL works fine

Question

I'm trying to get the data at this url:

https://graph.facebook.com/me?access_token=(my access token)

When I go to this address in a browser, it works. But I'm trying to use the rest-client gem in Ruby on Rails like this:

url = 'https://graph.facebook.com/me/home?access_token=' + access_token
result = RestClient.get url
p result

But I get this error message:

URI::InvalidURIError in AuthenticationsController#index
bad URI(is not URI?): https://graph.facebook.com/me/home?access_token=(my access token)

What am I doing wrong here? Could it have something to do with the format of the access_token? I've left it out in the code above, but this is the format it's in:

1xxx

Thanks for reading.

Zabba · Answer 1 · 2010-11-02T05:53:01.570

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Try escaping the access_token:

url = 'https://graph.facebook.com/me/home?access_token=' + URI.escape(access_token)

edited Nov 02 '10 at 05:53

answered Nov 02 '10 at 05:47

Zabba

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 02 '12 at 06:42

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r = RestClient.get 'https://graph.facebook.com/me/feed', :params => {:access_token => access_token }

You should do something like this

answered Apr 02 '12 at 06:42

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Can you explain why you think this will work when the OP's code doesn't? – dpassage Oct 26 '12 at 16:32
Sorry, by 'OP' I meant the original question. Answers are more useful if you explain the thinking behind them. – dpassage Oct 31 '12 at 00:30

Trying to do a simple GET HTTP request on the Facebook API with rest_client but it's not accepting the url, even though the URL works fine

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