Get Facebook user info with Mootools

Recently I found myself in need of a way for users to use their facebook details in a web app, and to link back to their facebook profile.

Anyway, I decided to put together a very basic demo to show how to retrieve a user’s data using Mootools!

Luckily, Facebook make this extremely easy by means of their Graph API!

This process is as simple as making a JSONP request to “http://graph.facebook.com/#USERNAME#”

var jsonRequest = new Request.JSONP({
	url: 'http://graph.facebook.com/Sapphion',
	onSuccess: function(person){
		console.debug(person);
	}

}).send();

The simple request shown above would retrieve basic information from my own Facebook profile and output it to the browser’s console.
You can view a demo here.