And then the external site sends an HTTP request (with access token for authentication) to Facebook’s API. Facebook then asks you whether to provide the details or not.

Facebook confirms to TechCrunch that it’s investigating a security research report that shows Facebook user data can be grabbed by third-party JavaScript trackers embedded on websites using ...

Facebook rolls out API restrictions, discloses blocking bug The social networking giant is requiring advanced developer permissions on some APIs and shutting others down entirely.

Facebook this week is open-sourcing Relay, which provides data-fetching for React JavaScript applications. The move could open up new possibilities for the technology, Facebook engineers said ...

Facebook profiles have become the de-facto identities of people across the internet. This is thanks, in large part, to Login With Facebook, the social network's universal login API, which allows ...

With Tuesday’s release of Flow, an open source static type checker, Facebook engineers are continuing their recent efforts to seed the community at large with tools built in-house. “Flow adds ...

A Facebook application programming interface called isInputPending will be available in Chrome 87 and may help speed up content loading. The isInputPending API started as an origin trail in 2019 ...