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Hi I am developing an application that will communicate with Facebook Graph API to check in user at a particular location (only one).

1) I let the user sign in, and ask for authorization to publish/sign into locations 2) I get the token from facebook and thus acquire the credentials

How do I check in a user? at a location ?

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 19 '11 at 18:32

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You need to have publish_checkins authorization for the user. If you get that you can simply do a post to http://graph.facebook.com/PROFILE_ID/checkins which take several parameters. Please check publishing section of this page.

curl -F 'access_token=...' \
 -F 'message=The coffee is just meh.' \
 -F 'place=PAGE_ID' \
 -F 'coordinates={"latitude":"...", "longitude": "..."}' \
 -F 'tags=USER_ID1, USER_ID2' \
 https://graph.facebook.com/me/checkins

Hope this will help you.

answered Jun 19 '11 at 18:32

Tapos

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This is a tool to call a url in commandline. I am not sure about windows system but Unix systems have adopted this. More [here](http://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html) – Tapos Jun 21 '11 at 10:45
BTW if any answer help you, you should accept that or do a upvote. – Tapos Jun 21 '11 at 10:46
Hey guys quick question, If I have the PAGE_ID are the lat/long coordinates necessary? – Casey Flynn Mar 07 '12 at 04:36
How I can do using C# SDK is there any idea.! – Jitendra Jadav Mar 21 '12 at 13:06

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 07 '12 at 02:31

You can achieve same thing in the Facebook JavaScript SDK. You need "publish_checkins" Extended permission in FB.login

FB.api('/me/checkins', 'post', 
       { message: 'Hurrey, At Facebook HQ...!!!',
           place: 110506962309835,
           coordinates: {
               'latitude': 37.4163458217,
               'longitude': -122.15198690595
           }
       },
       function (response) {
           console.log(response.id);
       }
);

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